Places
Mexico 1968
Ted Zahn
I was excited to see that famed designer Lance Wyman recently took to Instagram to share from his archive. Wyman designed one of my favorite things ever, this landmark 1968 Mexico City Olympics identity system, and I found myself down a design rathole.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Ted Zahn
Granted, I’m not your typical tourist. I’m drawn to the ordinary corners of ordinary towns, forgotten industrial areas, eerily calm side streets. And that is kind of all that’s left of McKeesport today. It’s 30 minutes south of Pittsburgh, along the Monongahela River. I’d seen a few pictures online of Jaison’s department store here, so I decided to make a quick stop on my way from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg. I ended up wandering around the downtown streets on a Tuesday morning in 2018 for hours. Seemingly all by myself. It wasn’t always like this. This was Tube City, home to...