Today’s poster is Aeroflot, the Soviet Russian airline’s Christmas promotion. A great, simple design, though the Tupolev Tu 154‘s drawing needs a little work. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. From Vintage Travel Posters here.
Tag: Airline
Concorde Lives!
It’s the holiday season, and for those using a particular high street travel agent, they may well walk into the branch under an overlooked reminder of a lost glory of airline travel. The Flight Centre logo still features one of the most unmistakable iconic airliner shapes, that of the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic machine. Remember –…
Negative KLM Shadow
Today’s poster features a generic thirties airliner promoting the airline KLM by notable poster designer Munetsugu Satomi, dated 1933. This version shows the main routes around the border, a design Satomi used in other posters and seen elsewhere in the period. (It also relies on the poster being displayed complete, of course.) Details and some…
Box Plane, Sleek Birds
Today’s Poster is from the Smithsonian collection, and is a startlingly modern look for a period poster promoting the Farman aircraft company’s air lines, later the Société Générale des Transports Aérienes (SGTA). The contrast of the sleek gulls to the boxy Farman airliner, and the unusual yellow background and the remarkably modern logo make a…
Caravelle Cont.
I recently posted a number of Sud Aviation Caravelle images focused on the unusual passenger cabin’s curved triangular windows. But there’s plenty more great artworks of Caravelles, clearly one of the most elegant airliners with a loyal following even today. Coming and going with Air Algerie and Alitalia… And two takes with Finnair. The Stewardess…
Tomorrow Never Comes
Following yesterday’s post featuring both airliners that didn’t make it, or never came to reality (as well as some that did) today here’s a proposed airliner that seems a lot more credible a design, though it was also never to become real – yesterday or tomorrow. An advertisement for Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft Ltd, a company that…
Bristol Fashions
Leading today with a simple, but effective poster from the Bristol Aeroplane Company (from here) at a 1950s SBAC Farnborough airshow. I presume the flag is Bristol’s own house standard, and note the ‘Bristol’ logotype we discussed earlier here. From the top, the aircraft depicted are the Bristol Type 167 Brabazon, Type 175 Britannia, Type…
Caravelle
Today we have an advertising theme featuring the unusual windows of the Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle medium range airliner. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer. Posters, found online, photograph from here.
Fly Down to Africa
Today a pair of posters that feature semi abstract African themes, and promoting the ‘Jet DC-8’ (when a jet was a notable differentiating advantage in airline advertising). Two different airlines though, UAT (Union Aéromaritime de Transport) and Air Afrique, which developed as an African owned and operated airline from UAT and other elements. Both posters…
To the Airport Of Yesteryear
Today’s an airport hotel, a retro effort that my good friend August Horvath brought to my attention on Instagram here. His comment: “I don’t know if the crazy @twahotel venture at @jfkairport will succeed, but it sure is done in style. From the elevator that pretends to be a time machine, to the access tube,…
A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art 