About Pan Am Jet Age
Pan Am's Jet Age identity turned a circle into a promise. The 1957 "Blue Meatball" globe logo by Edward Larrabee Barnes and Charles Forberg set meridian lines on a saturated blue field, paired Helvetica's calm grotesque voice, and projected space-age confidence about a shrinking world.
This system rebuilds that confidence: the globe-blue as the surface itself, polished-aluminum silver for type and chrome, strict grids, and the elegance of the Boeing 707 Jet Clipper. Flat, crisp, optimistic — airline livery cleanliness rendered as an interface.
- Origin
- New York / global — Pan American World Airways
- Era
- 1950–1990 (Jet Age 1958, globe logo 1957)
- Key figures
- Juan Trippe · Edward Larrabee Barnes · Charles Forberg · Ivan Chermayeff
- Movements
- Midcentury modernist corporate identity · Swiss International Style · Jet Age optimism
Pan Am Jet Age design spec
Colors
Typography
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