Today’s Poster. As in the early post about the Spanish world having a different perspective, the same goes for the Francophone world. In French, ‘Avec ceci – des retards. Avec ceci la victore’ in English, reads ‘With this – delays. With this – victory’. While the necessity and immediacy of the need of Britain and…
It’s the Wrong Stripes!
Aircraft markings seem to be rather a challenge to understand at times, and are easily misinterpreted. They are a design and aesthetic choice, as well as being a political recognition and heraldry concept as well. This ‘executive desktop model’ made from mahogany will set you back around US $300 on eBay. It’s not bad, but…
Duocolour Bomba
A postcard today, from the wartime Italian era Ministerio Dell ‘Aeronautica. Of interest for two reasons – artistically, a limited colour palette is unusual in postcards and the like, and in aeronautical terms a ‘bombing up’ moment was rarely chosen as an art subject (although there are plenty of photographs, though, again, rarely as a…
April Roundup
Here’s the roundup from April 2019. Plenty of posters, but I’ve managed to salt in a few other things – can you call them all? A couple of webpages, a set of experimental models, a chocolate bar package, kiwi with a bit extra, two commemorative jet aircraft schemes (very different ones) a full size stainless…
Biggin Mug
Today’s art is a graphic text design – on a mug. Through the late eighties airshows I collected a mug a show, as far as I could. Some were specific to the even, or as here to the event and its year. Artistically this Biggin Hill Airshow mug isn’t anything particularly notable, except that such…
Posters Everywhere
Today’s Posters surprised me! Doing a project like this can start one seeing the subject pop up in all kinds of places, in a ‘seeing patterns’ kind of way, but this just leapt off the screen at me. It’s perhaps worrying that I’m so current in the topic that can point to the origin of…
Zurich Meet
Today’s Poster. Everybody’s flying the same kind of aircraft? While a simple looking design, note the different colour mixes on the prop blade roots on each of the nearest three aircraft. Hope it was a good meet! From the excellent 1925 to 1935 blog of images here. Image details: 1937 – J.C. Müller, Zürich 90…
Table Toppings
From friend Andrew Matthews, spotted in Dunedin airport, New Zealand some time ago. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Leyendecker Double Take
Two versions of the same idea by Joseph Leyendecker. A follow up from his earlier Great War pair, here’s another double by American commercial artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874–1951). In this ‘Aviator with two boys’ it’s two different images and two different art media takes on a single idea. Note the differences in the dog…
ANA’s Infinite Sky
One from the excellent poster blog ‘Quad Royal’, by Susannah Walker which only occasionally features aviation posters, but when it does, they’re very worthwhile. Listed as a 1955 poster for Australian National Airways (ANA) by Ronald Clayton Skate, it was est. $800-1,200 in a 2011 auction. On the blog, the Susannah wrote: “… they represent…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 