Visuals: Printed Matter from ’70s Pan Am

For nearly all of the 20th century, Pan American World Airways dominated the U.S. aviation industry. As the nation’s first international airline, Pan Am flew millions of well-to-do Americans and foreigners around the globe from 1927 until the company’s financial-based dissolve in 1991.

In its heyday, though, Pan Am not only changed the way people flew. It also put out some fascinating–and aesthetically-pleasing–advertisements, posters, brochures, and the like to promote the brand.

In the ’70s in particular, the creative directors at Pan Am switched gears and adopted a minimal logo that complemented their new visual approach, focusing more on images and art than on text. The resulting prints are striking mementos of both the brand and the period itself.

Take a look at some below, courtesy of this virtual Pan Am museum.

A Farewell to Other Music

This past Saturday, June 25, 2016, the doors of Other Music closed for good.

Other Music was a record store that lived for two decades on East 4th Street and Lafayette in Manhattan, just a stone’s throw away from the New York University campus on Washington Square. It’s at Other that, as a young college freshman excited yet terrified of everything all the time, I felt safe. I found comfort. And most of all, I found incredible music.

After bombing a presentation in my science class a few years ago and wanting to hide my face into my lap for hours, I walked a few minutes over to Other to get my mind away from the embarrassment. I ended up leaving with a bunch of new records under my arm, and the knowledge that this place would always be here, just down the street.