Time’s New Look

We’ve been impressed by Time Magazine’s recent print re-design by Pentagram, but they’ve also been beefing up their front-of-the-book briefs with interesting new angles. Here’s an excellent recent example, where they analyze geopolitical developments through the lens of newly added air routes:

1 HOUSTON TO DUBAI This one is all about oil. Emirates airline began
this route in December–only three months before Halliburton announced
its headquarters would move from the Texan city to Dubai

2
TEHRAN TO CARACAS Iran and Venezuela seem unlikely allies. But a
flirtation that started with a mutual distaste for Yankee imperialists
was consummated in March with a direct Iran Air flight between the
countries

3 BALTIMORE TO KANGERLUSSUAQ A key cold war U.S.
military base–now a commercial airport–will be the landing zone for
what Greenland hopes will be armies of ecotourists traveling on Air
Greenland starting in May

4 DUBAI TO SAO PAULO The Middle East
and South America will have a second direct link, via Emirates, in
October. The U.A.E. is bullish on biofuels, and Brazil happens to have
a half-continent of arable land

5 VIENNA TO ERBIL Austrian
Airlines opened Europe’s first regular air connection to Iraq (Erbil is
the Kurdish capital) in December. Austria’s largest energy firm
recently began negotiations on oil and gas exploration in Iraq

Time