Vintage Air Canada Logo Poster Design - Recreated for Download

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First things first: I did not design this beautiful vintage Air Canada Poster, I’ve simply always been very fond of it, and wanted to recreate it from the only bitmap version found online.

This original version is on the right hand side, and truth be told, it’s not all that bad.

It’s clearly been round the block a few times, but this all add’s to the vintage charm of it.

The left hand side version is the newly recreated version in vector.

My Little Ray of Canadian Sunshine

As this Air Canada Rainbow poster has always really cheered me up, I wanted to do my little bit to preserve the integrity of the original design, and recreate it as faithfully as possible in vector.

Recreating it in vector also then means we can create some additional versions, such as a landscape version, then maybe versions to be used as wallpapers…

I decided to keep the colours solid and flat, rather than trying to design in some faux distressed vintage effect.

Obviously with the vector which you can download, you can do with it as you wish.

However, I’d personally prefer that it’s kept as true to the original artwork when it was first printed, in the 1960’s.

Quickly Type Stuff

I found a largish version of the vintage Air Canada Logo (above), and was initially going to just redraw it, but I realised it wasn’t far off Helvetica, so I used Helvetia as a starting point for the typography, and just tweaked it to match the original.

Read more on the process and grab the poster download link via my post: "Vintage Air Canada Logo Poster Design Recreated for Download"