Vintage Color & Design: Airline Logos

By evad // May 27, 2009

Here is a selection of vintage airline logos from the Museum of Flight's website which has 150 logos in their collection. The site also has an extensive collection of aircraft, spacecraft and artifacts. For more airline inspiration have a look at our post highlighting modern airline color identities.

Written by evad

www.colourlovers.comDavid Sommers has been loving color as COLOURlovers' Blog Editor-in-Chief for the past two years. When he's not neck deep in a rainbow he's loving other things with The Post Family (http://thepostfamily.com/), a Chicago-based art blog, artist collective & gallery.

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Tzadkiel

Posted May 27, 2009

Interesting... :-)

liddle_r

Posted May 27, 2009

super cool!

Hipdog

Posted May 27, 2009

Having managed a major U.S. airline's brand/corporate id standards.. this is way cool retro material. Congrats!

sinar

Posted May 27, 2009

cool post. Seeing Garuda Indonesia's logo sure brought some pilot related flashbacks ;)

_stefan

Posted May 28, 2009

Oh, I love these! Great post.

bijouloveshues

Posted May 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of airline logos - great post!

But where's the quintessential Pan Am?!

PanAm Logo

JeremyTuber

Posted May 28, 2009

This really was a neat post thank you...some of these look pretty basic to me while others look a bit busy.

They all do have the retro feel which is kind of cool. I liked the 2nd from the bottom: kind of a puma and bird combined.

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