Skift Global Forum Preview: How Airlines Became Global Style Icons
Photo Credit: A Concorde aircraft as depicted in a British Airways advert. Matthias C. Huhne, the author of Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975, is speaking at the Skift Global Forum. Callisto Publishers
Skift Take
Air travel today is something that we take for granted but 50 years ago it represented something altogether more fantastical.
On September 27 to 28, nearly 1,000 of the travel industry’s brightest and best will gather in New York City for the third annual Skift Global Forum, the largest creative business gathering in the global travel industry. In only two short years it has become what media, speakers, and attendees have called the “TED talks of travel.”
This year’s event at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center will feature speakers including the CEOs of Marriott International, Carnival Corp., Expedia Inc., TripAdvisor, Etihad Aviation Group, Club Med, and many more.
In preparation for the event we are featuring articles and insights from some of the speakers that touch on big-picture issues that begin in travel, but also impact businesses and industries beyond the sector.
Harvard graduate Matthias C. Huhne setup Callisto Publishers after a varied career spent working in the real estate business. The company’s first book Airline Visual Identity: 1945-1975 covered corporate design in the gold
