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In the mid-1950s the company announced the arrival of America’s first commercial jets with a revamped identity courtesy of New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes (appointed as Pan American’s consultant designer in 1955) and his associate, Charles Forberg. Barnes and Forberg in turn asked Ivan Chermayeff, then on their staff, to redesign the airline’s logotype and symbol.

In the mid-1950s the company announced the arrival of America’s first commercial jets with a revamped identity courtesy of New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes (appointed as Pan American’s consultant designer in 1955) and his associate, Charles Forberg. Barnes and Forberg in turn asked Ivan Chermayeff, then on their staff, to redesign the airline’s logotype and symbol.

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