The Year is 1968

Boeing 737

Concorde

Boeing 737

"The later-generation 737s are especially unattractive. That’s what happens, maybe, when you’ve taken what was originally conceived as a short-haul regional plane and stretched and tweaked and pushed the thing into roles it was never envisioned for. Throw in those rams-horn style winglets, and the result is a sort of Frankenplane."

Patrick Smith
The Ugliest Planes of All Time (2012)

Boeing 737

"The later-generation 737s are especially unattractive. That’s what happens, maybe, when you’ve taken what was originally conceived as a short-haul regional plane and stretched and tweaked and pushed the thing into roles it was never envisioned for. Throw in those rams-horn style winglets, and the result is a sort of Frankenplane."

Patrick Smith
The Ugliest Planes of All Time (2012)

Boeing 737

"The later-generation 737s are especially unattractive. That’s what happens, maybe, when you’ve taken what was originally conceived as a short-haul regional plane and stretched and tweaked and pushed the thing into roles it was never envisioned for. Throw in those rams-horn style winglets, and the result is a sort of Frankenplane."

Patrick Smith
The Ugliest Planes of All Time (2012)

Boeing 737

"The later-generation 737s are especially unattractive. That’s what happens, maybe, when you’ve taken what was originally conceived as a short-haul regional plane and stretched and tweaked and pushed the thing into roles it was never envisioned for. Throw in those rams-horn style winglets, and the result is a sort of Frankenplane."

Patrick Smith
The Ugliest Planes of All Time (2012)

Boeing 737

"The later-generation 737s are especially unattractive. That’s what happens, maybe, when you’ve taken what was originally conceived as a short-haul regional plane and stretched and tweaked and pushed the thing into roles it was never envisioned for. Throw in those rams-horn style winglets, and the result is a sort of Frankenplane."

Patrick Smith
The Ugliest Planes of All Time (2012)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Concorde

"Concorde could talk and it talks to us still. Concorde talks of futuristic dreaming and fame and white hot technology and a clamour for glamour and the glamour of flight itself. Of a machine with a soul. [...]
It will take a mighty beautiful suitable replacement to silence that voice."

Royal Aeronautical Society
Beautiful bird. Lovely plumage. (2019)

Yikes

"The original programme cost estimate was £70 million. The programme experienced huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion."

Wikipedia
Concorde

Yikes

"The original programme cost estimate was £70 million. The programme experienced huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

Yikes

"The original programme cost estimate was £70 million. The programme experienced huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

Yikes

"The original programme cost estimate was £70 million. The programme experienced huge overruns and delays, with the program eventually costing £1.3 billion."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

Yikes

"This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long take-off runs and frighteningly high landing speeds [...] Air compression on the outer surfaces caused the cabin to heat up during flight. Every surface, such as windows and panels, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

Yikes

"This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long take-off runs and frighteningly high landing speeds [...] Air compression on the outer surfaces caused the cabin to heat up during flight. Every surface, such as windows and panels, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

😱

Yikes

"This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long take-off runs and frighteningly high landing speeds [...] Air compression on the outer surfaces caused the cabin to heat up during flight. Every surface, such as windows and panels, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

😱

🔥

Yikes

"This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long take-off runs and frighteningly high landing speeds [...] Air compression on the outer surfaces caused the cabin to heat up during flight. Every surface, such as windows and panels, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

😱

🔥

Yikes

"This same short span produced very little lift at low speed, which resulted in extremely long take-off runs and frighteningly high landing speeds [...] Air compression on the outer surfaces caused the cabin to heat up during flight. Every surface, such as windows and panels, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

😱

🔥

😱

Yikes

"On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

🔥

😱

Yikes

"On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

🔥

😱

💀

Yikes

"On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

🔥

😱

💀

Yikes

"On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year."

Wikipedia
Concorde

💸

🔥

😱

💀

Meanwhile...

"On 10 April 2003, Air France and British Airways simultaneously announced they would retire Concorde later that year."

Wikipedia
Concorde (2019)

💀

💸

🔥

😱

👹

Good Design?

"As of December 2019, 15,156 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 10,571 delivered. [...] On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006. [...] The 737 represents more than 25% of the worldwide fleet of large commercial jet airliners."

Wikipedia
Boeing 737

Good Design?

"As of December 2019, 15,156 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 10,571 delivered. [...] On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006. [...] The 737 represents more than 25% of the worldwide fleet of large commercial jet airliners."

Wikipedia
Boeing 737

Good Design?

"As of December 2019, 15,156 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 10,571 delivered. [...] On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006. [...] The 737 represents more than 25% of the worldwide fleet of large commercial jet airliners."

Wikipedia
Boeing 737

Good Design?

"As of December 2019, 15,156 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 10,571 delivered. [...] On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006. [...] The 737 represents more than 25% of the worldwide fleet of large commercial jet airliners."

Wikipedia
Boeing 737

Good Design?

"As of December 2019, 15,156 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 10,571 delivered. [...] On average, somewhere in the world, a 737 took off or landed every five seconds in 2006. [...] The 737 represents more than 25% of the worldwide fleet of large commercial jet airliners."

Wikipedia
Boeing 737

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Fall From Grace

John Maeda
How to Speak Machine (2019)

"... So in 2019, when a popular business magazine announced in a headline that I’d said, “In reality, design is not that important,” it did not come as a surprise to me that I would be dragged through the internet mud by all lovers of design [...] I honestly don’t believe that design is the most important matter today."

Slow Burn

John Maeda
Design in
Tech Report (2019)

"Alone and isolated
within a company,
design is a microworld
of aesthetic high-fives."

Slow Burn

John Maeda
Design in
Tech Report (2019)

"Alone and isolated
within a company,
design is a microworld
of aesthetic high-fives."

Slow Burn

John Maeda
Design in
Tech Report (2019)

"Alone and isolated
within a company,
design is a microworld
of aesthetic high-fives."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."

Design for Designers

Stefan Sagmeister
How Good is Good? (2004)

"... an art director in England discussing his award winning campaign ad campaign for an association for the blind, featuring a striking image of a guide dog with human eyes stripped in. He mentioned that he knew that a picture of a cute puppy would have raised more donations."