Time to Fly

Otto Nielsen was a Danish painter and watercolorist who worked as an illustrator for books, magazines and posters.

From 1954 to 1976 he also produced a series of beautiful travel posters and calendars for Scandinavian Airlines System,

a company founded in 1946 with the merge of four Scandinavian companies from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 

Its first destination was New York, then Bangkok and Buenos Aires, and in 1954 
SAS became the first airline to operate a trans-polar route. 

Flying Around

 Oscar Rabe Hanson, 1926

Just back from a brief but wonderful trip to Barcelona,

I am getting ready to leave for a few days in Paris...

I love to travel, but wish I had my own wings 

instead of flying with Ryanair

 Battetti, 1930s

Lucien Boucher, 1948, thanks to Paul Malon

Charley Harper, 1951

Two 1950s posters for Braniff

Jacques Dubois, 1956

Jean Colin, 1958

Thanks to Sandi Vincent

via the Simmonds Collection

Pablo Picasso, 1963

Georges Mathieu, 1968

Wiktor Górka, 1968

Raymond Savignac

Fun with Appliances

Peter Gut is a Swiss typographer, illustrator and caricaturist based in Winterthur. 

He has collaborated for years with the weekly magazine Facts, and today works for Weltwoche,

the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the business magazine Bilanz. Gut also designs book covers and

 has illustrated the children's book Der Bär auf dem Försterball. I recently discovered his work

thanks to my daughter Michelle, who bought me the postcard above. His surreal and whimsical humour

 and artistic style are in a similar vein to the great Michael Sowa, who I haven't posted so far 

only because he's already quite famous, and Roberto Perini. These pictures are part of the book

Tierisch unter Strom, which explores a series of funny and creative interactions 

between different animals and various appliances and machines.

 You can also find them as postcards via Incognito.

Mad Men & Crazy Critters - Shoe Fetish

Leonetto Cappiello, 1906

Just to prove the point, as I was uploading this post 

Maya began chewing yet another of Seba's shoes

Plinio Codognato, 1925

Posters by unknown artist and Filippo Romoli, 1928, 

from the Wolfsonian Collections

Tadeusz Gronowski, 1929

Rafael de Penagos, thanks to 50 Watts

Lubatti, 1939

Two ads by Eidenbenz Atelier

Donald Brun, 1946

Japanese ad, 1954, thanks again to 50 Watts

Louis Wattiez, 1955