{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Layovers - Air Travel podcast","title":"161 AAR - The Visual Culture of Air Travel: The Maps, the Designs, the Voyages That Made Us Fall in Love With Flying, with Christian Nolle","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":9054,"description":"Christian Nolle is a maker, designer, photographer, whose work focuses on aviation culture, the stories behind route maps, and the historical impact of flying on what ties us all together and makes us dream. He is the editor of Direction of Travel.\nWe discuss everything, from his obsession with Heathrow (he was testing T5 before the opening!), his collection of route maps, his beautiful print magazine, old logos and liveries, photographing air travel (we both love it), his various exploratory projects into what flying means, and why we love this all so much — we reminisce, and also look forward (even admiring Ryanair's design!).\nFrom old timetables, freezing a network into time, to the soft power airlines held for their respective countries (Pan Am and Aeroflot!), to the promise dreamt up by looking at a big miniature aircraft at the window of an airline travel agency, it's a episode full of wonder — you'll hear (or see) that Paul could not stop his enthusiasm, from discussing his discovery of the three abandoned Olympic Airways aircraft at Ellinikon (the old Athens airport), to making Christian reveal his latest project (one you'll all love, and why the release of this episode has been delayed by a week, he needed to finish it!).\nChristian can be found here:\nDirection of Travel: https://directionoftravel.com\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/directionoftravel/\nThe project we discussed in episode 150, and today:\nTickets to Everywhere: https://tickets.directionoftravel.com\nThe new project Christian revealed during the episode (IT IS AMAZING):\nAirline Atlas: https://airlineatlas.com\nAlso mentioned:\nOld airline time tables: https://timetableimages.com/\nHappy flying!\n_____A show created and hosted by Paul Papadimitriou: Instagram - LinkedIn\nThe show is on Instagram - Facebook - Bluesky - more links on the website\nVideo and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and wherever you podcast.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1xB-GL9Ir38Zq3qlzaYLiOB-cB-sY_Wwsat0VunT2vg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kNzc2/YTgwMzkzZTk3ODQy/ZTY1NjI1ZmE4NjVj/YTljMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}