Air France World 2

Today’s Poster follows yesterday’s. Designed by Lucien Boucher, it’s a 1949 poster advertising the ‘Orient – Extreme Orient’ destination with a orientalist design theme. A magnificent bird faces a Chinese style pagoda, with an Indian building behind it, all located over a map extending from India to China and the Oriental nations in between. Top…

Koala to India

Just a fun one today, an Air India first day cover style commemoration of the first Boeing 707 flight between India and Australia in 1962. The chap is Air India’s ‘character’ used in the era, and obviously he’s decided to act like a local and copy the koala! First day covers are – yet another…