Design for Impact

Name: Design for Impact
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ISBN: 9781568983875

ISBN-10: 1568983875

ISBN-13: 9781568983875

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eric Ericson, Johan Pihl, Carl Reese

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You know you re supposed to review it, although few of us do, and it is there for your own protection in the unlikely event, in every seatback on every airliner from every country throughout the world: the laminated safety card. Yes, these colorful works of universal illustration all answer the same basic questions Where s that life vest? How does the oxygen mask work? Where s the closest exit? but every plane and every airline has its own unique system of graphic shorthand to communicate quickly and across language barriers. Design for Impact is a compendium of the most interesting and imaginative of these airline safety cards, from the earliest booklets created for planes like the 1930s…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 9.13" wide x 12.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Preface


Pre-war safety cards


Post-war safety cards


The jet age begins


The Comet


The Boeing 707


The Douglas DC-8


The Convair 880


Next-generation jets


The Concorde


Ex-communist safety cards