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Flying a flag for Great Britain

The British European Airways corporate identities by Mary de Saulles (1960) and FHK Henrion (1967)

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Jun 06, 2023
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BEA speedjack logo by FHK Henrion, 1967, LogoArchive, Logo Histories

Since its founding in 1946, British European Airways (BEA) had had a long history of using modern communications design: Theyre Lee-Elliott (1903-1988) who created the “Key to Europe” BEA symbol and Jozef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) both provided strong posters promoting air travel to the Continent of Europe. BEA was also the first airline to roll out …

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Roger van den Bergh is a corporate identity designer. Trained as an industrial designer in Eindhoven, the Netherlands he works since 1980 in New York City as an independent using the website onomadesign.com and rvandenbergh@onomadesign.com
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