Qantas : Australia's round the world airline : forty years of service 1920-1960 / Hamori
- Bib ID:
- 6327391
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Hamori, George, 1918-1990, artist
- Related Online Resources:
- POSTER 2023-2812 copy
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Qantas Empire Airways 1960
- 1 poster : colour ; 50 x 76 cm.
- Summary:
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Screen printed colour artwork of a segmented multi-coloured globe inside the number "0", paired with the outline of a silver and grey aeroplane against a blue and white background. The text reads both vertically and horizontally, as well as diagionally, superimposed on the number "4." Signed "Hamori" in upper right hand corner.
- Biography/History:
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George Hamori, renowned stamp designer for many countries and the United Nations, was born in Budapest in 1918. He left Hungary in 1948 or 1949 and after some time in Israel settled in Australia in 1956. He designed the logo of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 1961. In 1963 he was one of the artists selected to submit a design for Australia's new decimal currency. He won prizes for the graphic design of his annual reports for Qantas, and worked for them until 1963.
- Notes:
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- Caption title.
- POSTER 2023-2812 copy Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Qantas Empire Airways, issuing body
- Also Titled:
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- 40 forty years of service 1920-1960 : Qantas : Australia's round the world airline
- Forty years of service 1920-1960
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2060 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1990
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1960
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