Today’s Poster. A placeholder due to illness. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.

Something extra to normal service here. In November I will be attending the Heritage of the Air conference in Canberra at University House, ANU, where I will be convening a session on Operating Historic Aircraft. Website here, call for papers details here. And the headline. Papers are solicited ASAP, (7th June) so please, if you’re…

Today’s Poster. Just a quick post today, here the perennial airline theme ‘sitting in the sky’ here with the Lufthansa stork symbol. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Source unknown.

Here’s a commemorative marker, a sticker, I think*, for a half-century of Pan Am’s flying a transatlantic service starting in 1939 – quickly disrupted by the Second World War. The service was started with Boeing 314 flying boats, as illustrated here – a type that went onto a notable number or remarkable flights and records.But…

One of the often neglected aspects of aviation art I’m going to focus on are the three dimensional works, including here a bas relief sculpture by Paul Landowski, from the page of the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace shared today. Landowski may not be familiar by name, but just about everyone reading this blog…

Coming up soon on the Aviation Illustration Blog… Nice. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.

Here’s the images for February. Quite a mix, with an ice sculpture, a travel bag, a roundabout in the three-dimensional elements, one ‘pastiche’ a theft and a fabric missing man. Well worth a look back through! James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.

Today’s post is thanks to friend and colleague Dion Makowski at the current Airshows Downunder Australian International Air Show at Avalon airport, Victoria, Australia. It’s patches, another vast topic! Unit patches are a crucial way of identifying various allegiances, from official versions, courses, units, and right down to scurrilous fabric graffiti, mainly military, though civilian…

A mixed media artwork by Roy E. LaGrone, of a United States Army Air Force pilot (Lieutenant Herman ‘Ace’ Lawson) in World War Two. A well executed fine art piece, today’s post carries its social history front and centre – and rightly so as its a celebration of African-American achievement*.  LaGrone was a member of…

Today’s image is another new aviation design area, but something the entire blog could be about. Aircraft company logos. Often overlooked today, all successful aircraft companies were very brand aware a century before the term was known as it is today, and that usually included distinctive logos, logotypes and fonts. Starting in the 1900s, aircraft…