I’m an absolute fan of vintage designs, and while “googling” something I can’t really recall, I came across some wonderful vintage airline posters and thought I’d share them with you guys. For this post I’ll start off with European airline companies and continue on with American airline companies next week.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Being the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, I couldn’t avoid putting a few posters from this company.
Air France
For over 7O years Air France served as France’s primary national flag carrier before merging with KLM in 2003. Today it serves over 32 destinations in France and operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to 151 destinations worldwide.
Lufthansa
Germany’s flag carrier, Lufthansa is also the largest airline in Europe in terms of overall passengers carried.
Sabena
Belgium’s national airline from 1923 to 2001, Sabena filed bankruptcy in 2001 to form the new SN Brussels Airline.
British Airways
The United Kingdom’s flag carrier, the British Airways board, was established in 1971 and took control of BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), BEA (British European Airways) and two smaller regional companies, Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines.
All images on this post and more can be found here.
Tagged with: Inspiration, Posters, vintage
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that these poster designs really rock. Hope to see more soon, cheers!
Appreciate it! I promise to upload some more as soon as I find more time.
this is just amazing stuff and hilarious too. I grew up next to the airport her in Nairobi Kenya and my brother has worked with Lufthansa for almost 25yrs and it is one of my most endeared brands next to KLM and Air France. Am a designer as well and really appreciate this collection. Are this available in high res? I would love to print large ones for my studio and home. I love the quaky “incoherent” design of this site – just too cool :)
just saw the link to the images “wow”!. Designers only look at the pretty pictures and forget to read – he he he!
This blog is definitely an on-going project. I threw this design together in a bit of a hurry and have been adding to it piece by piece. I’m glad you like this post, and thanks for your kind words.
Cheers to you!
Any of these available for sale? : )
I really couldn’t tell you, as this is just a grouping of some of the nicest posters I was able to find while scouring the net. You can probably head over to http://simmonscollection.com/posters.cfm and ask them directly.