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…
Tag: Food
Table Toppings
From friend Andrew Matthews, spotted in Dunedin airport, New Zealand some time ago. James Kightly, Vintage Aero Writer.
Choc Aero Altair
Today we have a chocolate box. Confectionery featuring aircraft isn’t that unusual, but this is featuring (I think) a contemporary speedster, the Lockheed Altair, which, as well as not being a generic ‘aeroplane’ is quite well depicted and even with just two colour printing. Confectionery aircraft. Something a bit different, another area which could be…
Jet Noise & Morning Milk
Today’s Poster. Having been wandering about in the civil nineteen-tens music, let’s flip to after the Second World War, the military, and quite a different noise – the raw ripping sound of a jet fighter* roaring overhead, made real in a poster. A standard response to airbase NIMBYs** is another cliche, promoted by western air…
