Poster for Aviators
Poster for Aviators
Here you will get acquainted with my posters, which I drew and sent prints to pilots and fans of civil aviation around the world
Airliner Profile Scenic Posters are original artworks crafted for anyone eager to bring the spirit of aviation into their home or office, they demonstrate your connection to the boundless realm of heights and flight
Gift For Pilots
Our collection features a wide range of ready-made profiles of civil aircraft, adorned in liveries of airlines from across the globe, both modern and bygone. Dive into our blog, where stories of airlines and their winged machines come alive.
Every detail in our work reflects precision and realism, captured in lines and shades that embody the soul of flight.
Every detail in our work reflects precision and realism, captured in lines and shades that embody the soul of flight.
Want a unique backdrop? Order a custom airliner poster designed just for you. Seeking a personal gift? Add a custom inscription – a one-of-a-kind gesture for a friend or comrade.
Provide the aircraft’s registration number, and we’ll draw the very liner that lingers in your memory. Include a personal touch – a pilot’s name and rank, service dates, or a memorable flight route – and the poster’s title will make it truly yours.
Would you like your own poster?
Provide the aircraft’s registration number, and we’ll draw the very liner that lingers in your memory. Include a personal touch – a pilot’s name and rank, service dates, or a memorable flight route – and the poster’s title will make it truly yours.
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To make a purchase, select the poster (s) on my catalog, fill in all the fields in the shopping cart correctly. I will receive all data about your order and take you a payment link by email. After paying, I will ship your parcel and provide a track code. Since emails containing links to external resources often end up in spam, I ask you to check your spam folder to avoid this.
The other day we went to pick up foam cylinders. Anyone who has already received our prints knows exactly what I’m talking about. This is a story about how we faced challenges more suited to designing an aircraft — even though it’s just a postal box.
The story of these cylinders began in 2019 with one failed delivery. Back then, we were shipping our prints simply rolled up inside a homemade cardboard box with a triangular cross-section. We chose that shape specifically to protect the roll from being crushed — everyone knows that a triangle is a sturdier structure than a rectangle. The only protection for the print was bubble wrap, but it couldn’t shield the photo paper from deformation caused by the collapsing sides of the outer cardboard box. And then came another failed delivery — the customer received a crumpled poster. Sadly, this was not uncommon. The box showed no obvious external damage, but the poster inside was deformed. After studying the nature of the damage, we concluded that the poster had been crushed due to the stress loads that occur during transportation.
Unfortunately, it’s not unusual these days for baggage handlers to show little regard for the contents of aircraft cargo holds. All sorts of short videos circulate online showing parcels being "expertly" launched into imaginary basketball hoops or football goals — and thankfully no one has thought to use baseball bats yet. Although, I probably shouldn’t have said that — don’t give the handlers any ideas!
And even though that particular customer didn’t file a complaint, it was precisely then that we decided enough was enough — it was time to do something about the problem. We needed to come up with additional protection for the roll that would prevent it from being crushed.
The challenge was made harder by the fact that we were trying to keep shipping costs to a minimum, and the price depended on the weight of the parcel. Up to that point we had been staying within the "up to 250 grams" bracket, and any increase in packaging weight would push us over that threshold — effectively doubling the shipping cost. We tried a huge number of options, and every one of them meant we’d have to raise our prices due to the higher postage.
Then, just when we had almost given up hope, the solution appeared! While searching for a cylindrical core for the poster — a task my wife had taken on — she found the most optimal option: foam cylinders cut to our specifications on request. After contacting the manufacturer, she visited the facility and brought back several samples of different diameters and densities. After testing them in practice, we settled on the ideal size and placed our first order. And the most magical thing of all — the cylinder was so light that we had every chance of staying within our existing postage rate.
At the same time, I redesigned the cardboard box so that it could fit the cylinder with a maximum of six posters wound around it, all wrapped in a single layer of bubble wrap. The first version of the packaging hit the target parameters almost to the gram. But then a new snag appeared: after sticking on all the required postal addresses, customs declarations, and stamps, the total weight exceeded 250 grams by a few grams. So we continued refining things — we reduced the length of both the cylinder and the tube by about five millimetres, and trimmed the width of the flaps on both end caps. Problem solved!
Since then, our tube has worked flawlessly. Over time we found another material for the cylinders, which freed up a few more grams. And the postal service updated its parcel documentation, so there are now far fewer stickers and forms to attach. Since then, we’ve had no further issues with posters being deformed from box compression.
The story of these cylinders began in 2019 with one failed delivery. Back then, we were shipping our prints simply rolled up inside a homemade cardboard box with a triangular cross-section. We chose that shape specifically to protect the roll from being crushed — everyone knows that a triangle is a sturdier structure than a rectangle. The only protection for the print was bubble wrap, but it couldn’t shield the photo paper from deformation caused by the collapsing sides of the outer cardboard box. And then came another failed delivery — the customer received a crumpled poster. Sadly, this was not uncommon. The box showed no obvious external damage, but the poster inside was deformed. After studying the nature of the damage, we concluded that the poster had been crushed due to the stress loads that occur during transportation.
Unfortunately, it’s not unusual these days for baggage handlers to show little regard for the contents of aircraft cargo holds. All sorts of short videos circulate online showing parcels being "expertly" launched into imaginary basketball hoops or football goals — and thankfully no one has thought to use baseball bats yet. Although, I probably shouldn’t have said that — don’t give the handlers any ideas!
And even though that particular customer didn’t file a complaint, it was precisely then that we decided enough was enough — it was time to do something about the problem. We needed to come up with additional protection for the roll that would prevent it from being crushed.
The challenge was made harder by the fact that we were trying to keep shipping costs to a minimum, and the price depended on the weight of the parcel. Up to that point we had been staying within the "up to 250 grams" bracket, and any increase in packaging weight would push us over that threshold — effectively doubling the shipping cost. We tried a huge number of options, and every one of them meant we’d have to raise our prices due to the higher postage.
Then, just when we had almost given up hope, the solution appeared! While searching for a cylindrical core for the poster — a task my wife had taken on — she found the most optimal option: foam cylinders cut to our specifications on request. After contacting the manufacturer, she visited the facility and brought back several samples of different diameters and densities. After testing them in practice, we settled on the ideal size and placed our first order. And the most magical thing of all — the cylinder was so light that we had every chance of staying within our existing postage rate.
At the same time, I redesigned the cardboard box so that it could fit the cylinder with a maximum of six posters wound around it, all wrapped in a single layer of bubble wrap. The first version of the packaging hit the target parameters almost to the gram. But then a new snag appeared: after sticking on all the required postal addresses, customs declarations, and stamps, the total weight exceeded 250 grams by a few grams. So we continued refining things — we reduced the length of both the cylinder and the tube by about five millimetres, and trimmed the width of the flaps on both end caps. Problem solved!
Since then, our tube has worked flawlessly. Over time we found another material for the cylinders, which freed up a few more grams. And the postal service updated its parcel documentation, so there are now far fewer stickers and forms to attach. Since then, we’ve had no further issues with posters being deformed from box compression.
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A Short Note
I don’t always have the time, energy, or skill to write long analytical articles with a cleverly crafted narrative. I’m more of an artist than a writer, after all. But often the subject I’m working on is so captivating that I feel an irresistible urge to share more than what fits on the poster. When researching the history of an airline, you start to understand the transformations it has gone through, and events sometimes reveal themselves from quite unexpected angles.
The two short stories published in the February blog appealed to me because unexpected — even seemingly illogical — events turned out to have roots stretching far back into the past.
An Unexpected Return
How did Singapore Airlines — known for its long-haul routes and a fleet made up exclusively of wide-body heavyweights — end up with a narrow-body Boeing 737−8 MAX? In any other context, this aircraft is positioned as a plane for medium-range routes. But among giants, it plays the role of a regional jet. And yet, this very airline once started out with the 737.
India’s Premium Airline
In India, nothing disappears without a trace — everything is reborn in a new form. The country’s first premium carrier is no exception. It no longer exists today, yet all of its aircraft are still in service, flying across the country and around the world. How is that possible, and how did Vistara end up as Air India’s closest relative?
Read all about it on our blog.
I don’t always have the time, energy, or skill to write long analytical articles with a cleverly crafted narrative. I’m more of an artist than a writer, after all. But often the subject I’m working on is so captivating that I feel an irresistible urge to share more than what fits on the poster. When researching the history of an airline, you start to understand the transformations it has gone through, and events sometimes reveal themselves from quite unexpected angles.
The two short stories published in the February blog appealed to me because unexpected — even seemingly illogical — events turned out to have roots stretching far back into the past.
An Unexpected Return
How did Singapore Airlines — known for its long-haul routes and a fleet made up exclusively of wide-body heavyweights — end up with a narrow-body Boeing 737−8 MAX? In any other context, this aircraft is positioned as a plane for medium-range routes. But among giants, it plays the role of a regional jet. And yet, this very airline once started out with the 737.
India’s Premium Airline
In India, nothing disappears without a trace — everything is reborn in a new form. The country’s first premium carrier is no exception. It no longer exists today, yet all of its aircraft are still in service, flying across the country and around the world. How is that possible, and how did Vistara end up as Air India’s closest relative?
Read all about it on our blog.
What is there to read?
There Is Something to Read
Diamond Da-40NG Almost Ready
In the seventh edition of the site news last November, in the piece "How a Poster Begins," I showed a sketch of the future model for the posters. No worries if you missed it — here’s a reminder.
Two months of work for something that isn’t all that complicated — that is a lot, of course. A combination of circumstances — the New Year holidays, a surge of orders in the first days of the year, and a slight illness in mid-January — all took their toll on the timeline. That said, there’s no need to rush. Cutting corners now will lead to a long chain of fixes and corrections down the road.
I know artists who take on drawing a model from scratch in three days. The result, as you can imagine, is not the best. For me, three days wouldn’t even be enough just to find and study photographs of the aircraft, figure out how many modifications there are, and decide which ones to draw first and which can wait. Finding photographs — especially of individual details — is quite a challenge in itself. There are spots on an aircraft that, as if by the will of some evil wizard, neither spotters nor professional photographers manage to capture — yet the detail still needs to be drawn. In cases like that, the search can take weeks.
There is an example of the exact opposite approach, where the task was to create an ultra-precise model of an airliner. The author became so absorbed in counting every single rivet that the model was never finished. After three years of titanic effort, he lost interest, never completing even the fuselage sketch, and never starting on the wings or engines. Whether the landing gear was in the plans, history does not reveal. Work was halted when every last tiny detail had been drawn on the fuselage — including details that would ultimately have been hidden by other parts of the airframe.
Neither of the two approaches described above is acceptable for a successful project. In the meantime, the Diamond Da-40NG project is nearing completion. Only the final touches remain: the model will receive its first livery and take its place on the poster. Right now I’m trying to piece together an idea of this particular aircraft from scarce — and often indirect — data found online. This time I had to bring in artificial intelligence. Our digital friend spent a lot of time and turned up plenty of interesting information, but there are still gaps in the story of our hero.
And yet, I hope that soon I’ll be able to present this aircraft — the one that became, for many, that very flying desk where young pilots took their first steps into the sky.
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What is there to read?
There Is Something to Read
Through the snowdrifts, through the bitter cold and the darkness of long nights, I’ve made it back to my blog. Now I have something to read again as evening rolls in.
A Living Legacy
I decided to open the season of '26 with a short article about the person in whose honor a Dutch airline Transavia aircraft is named. The idea was born the way many others are: I took on an order, studied the material, my eye caught a name on the fuselage, and I dove deeper. The research went beyond the scope of the order, but I got curious. That’s how this article came about.
Everyone called him John Block — though that was a pseudonym. Who was he, and why is a modern airliner wearing a retro livery named after him? Yes, John was no ordinary man — otherwise this aircraft wouldn’t exist. But that’s not all. In the course of researching online, some rather interesting names from the history of aviation surfaced — not only from the Netherlands. You’ll learn all about it in the new blog post.
Wings Over the Volga
At the end of last year, work began on a poster dedicated to the An-26−100 of the Kostroma Aviation Enterprise. This work was captivating and inspiring — after all, it’s an Antonov! Once upon a time, these aircraft could be spotted at any airport in the country; they carried millions of passengers across the nation. I’ve flown on one myself.
These days, not many airlines in Russia still operate this type of aircraft, and the small regional carrier out of Kostroma is one of them. It would be unfair to overlook the aviators of this small northern city, with its rich history and stunningly beautiful nature.
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New Additions to the Catalog
What’s New in the Catalog?
The catalog has been replenished once again. Two posters are updates from the series of revisions; two others are entirely new works. They’ve broken some drawn-out pauses. As usual, I’ll give a very brief preview here — for more details, read on the next page via the button below.
For nearly two months, my older works hadn’t been updated in the catalog, but the time has come, and I’ve redrawn the once very popular poster featuring a regional aircraft born as the CRJ700, but which later evolved into the CRJ550 — becoming the first aircraft in that series. The previous version of the poster will, however, return to the collection in due time.
Our collection hasn’t been added to with new posters featuring Canadian aviation for quite a while. This poster breaks that streak. It depicts the modern airliner Airbus A321neo of Air Transat, which is currently not represented in our catalog.
It’s not often that I get to draw aircraft from the African continent, but a new piece has broken that dry spell too. By the time I’m writing these lines, the file for this aircraft has already been sent to the print lab, and by the time you’re reading this, the printed poster will already be on its way… not to Africa.
An unexpected addition for me personally was the update to the old workhorse MD-11 of FedEx. Why unexpected? I started this work last year, but a string of urgent orders pulled me away from the process, and I nearly forgot about it. It was a note in my work plan that saved the day.
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Poster Additions (Page 2)
Seven years ago, I drew a poster featuring the CRJ550 of the American regional airline GoJet in its new United Express livery for the first time. For a while, it became the best-selling poster. We sold twenty copies in just the first day! But time flies, and it feels like it was only yesterday. Gradually the excitement died down, and the time came to refresh the poster.
In the previous version, the aircraft stood against the backdrop of the famous Gateway Arch, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Over time, sales experience showed that posters featuring landmarks have a limited audience — precisely because of their tight connection to a specific place. That’s why all new posters feature a neutral yet unique background. This doesn’t mean that scenic locations will disappear from posters forever. I’ve kept the St. Louis backdrop. It will be polished up and added to a library of landmark backgrounds that I’m putting together. Slipped up? Well, let’s consider it a teaser.
Now let me tell you about the second poster that joined the world aviation fleet of our Aviaposter project. As I wrote in the preview on the first page, it features an airline not currently in our catalog. I used that phrasing deliberately, because one Air Transat poster did exist within our project — but it’s currently set aside for an update, and it will be a special edition. But that’s a different story. Today I’m presenting the Air Transat poster with the brand-new Airbus A321NX. Its livery, flowing from deep blue to light blue and back again, seems to mirror the colors of the sky across different latitudes — from north to south — where the popular destinations lie.
The next two posters managed to "jump" into the news feed at the very last moment.
Say hello to the African giant — the Airbus A340−600 of South African Airways. We already have one A340 from this airline, but this time it’s the -600 variant on display. Every time I have to draw the six-hundred, its length makes me want to change the poster proportions, widening it from 900 to 1200 mm. It really is an enormously long aircraft! Unfortunately — or fortunately — the lab’s technical capabilities don’t allow for that without a loss in print quality. In the meantime, the printed poster has already set off on its journey across the ocean to the United States.
And finally, the fourth and last poster. It is the updated McDonnell Douglas MD-11 °F of FedEx Express — the patriarch of express delivery. I placed the livery of aircraft N596FE onto the updated model template, where I swapped out the set of highlights and refined a number of details. Then I drew a new landscape and sky. The result is an entirely new poster, which wrapped up the January work.
In the seventh edition of the site news last November, in the piece "How a Poster Begins," I showed a sketch of the future model for the posters. No worries if you missed it — here’s a reminder.
Two months of work for something that isn’t all that complicated — that is a lot, of course. A combination of circumstances — the New Year holidays, a surge of orders in the first days of the year, and a slight illness in mid-January — all took their toll on the timeline. That said, there’s no need to rush. Cutting corners now will lead to a long chain of fixes and corrections down the road.
I know artists who take on drawing a model from scratch in three days. The result, as you can imagine, is not the best. For me, three days wouldn’t even be enough just to find and study photographs of the aircraft, figure out how many modifications there are, and decide which ones to draw first and which can wait. Finding photographs — especially of individual details — is quite a challenge in itself. There are spots on an aircraft that, as if by the will of some evil wizard, neither spotters nor professional photographers manage to capture — yet the detail still needs to be drawn. In cases like that, the search can take weeks.
There is an example of the exact opposite approach, where the task was to create an ultra-precise model of an airliner. The author became so absorbed in counting every single rivet that the model was never finished. After three years of titanic effort, he lost interest, never completing even the fuselage sketch, and never starting on the wings or engines. Whether the landing gear was in the plans, history does not reveal. Work was halted when every last tiny detail had been drawn on the fuselage — including details that would ultimately have been hidden by other parts of the airframe.
Neither of the two approaches described above is acceptable for a successful project. In the meantime, the Diamond Da-40NG project is nearing completion. Only the final touches remain: the model will receive its first livery and take its place on the poster. Right now I’m trying to piece together an idea of this particular aircraft from scarce — and often indirect — data found online. This time I had to bring in artificial intelligence. Our digital friend spent a lot of time and turned up plenty of interesting information, but there are still gaps in the story of our hero.
And yet, I hope that soon I’ll be able to present this aircraft — the one that became, for many, that very flying desk where young pilots took their first steps into the sky.
______________
What is there to read?
There Is Something to Read
Through the snowdrifts, through the bitter cold and the darkness of long nights, I’ve made it back to my blog. Now I have something to read again as evening rolls in.
A Living Legacy
I decided to open the season of '26 with a short article about the person in whose honor a Dutch airline Transavia aircraft is named. The idea was born the way many others are: I took on an order, studied the material, my eye caught a name on the fuselage, and I dove deeper. The research went beyond the scope of the order, but I got curious. That’s how this article came about.
Everyone called him John Block — though that was a pseudonym. Who was he, and why is a modern airliner wearing a retro livery named after him? Yes, John was no ordinary man — otherwise this aircraft wouldn’t exist. But that’s not all. In the course of researching online, some rather interesting names from the history of aviation surfaced — not only from the Netherlands. You’ll learn all about it in the new blog post.
Wings Over the Volga
At the end of last year, work began on a poster dedicated to the An-26−100 of the Kostroma Aviation Enterprise. This work was captivating and inspiring — after all, it’s an Antonov! Once upon a time, these aircraft could be spotted at any airport in the country; they carried millions of passengers across the nation. I’ve flown on one myself.
These days, not many airlines in Russia still operate this type of aircraft, and the small regional carrier out of Kostroma is one of them. It would be unfair to overlook the aviators of this small northern city, with its rich history and stunningly beautiful nature.
______________
New Additions to the Catalog
What’s New in the Catalog?
The catalog has been replenished once again. Two posters are updates from the series of revisions; two others are entirely new works. They’ve broken some drawn-out pauses. As usual, I’ll give a very brief preview here — for more details, read on the next page via the button below.
For nearly two months, my older works hadn’t been updated in the catalog, but the time has come, and I’ve redrawn the once very popular poster featuring a regional aircraft born as the CRJ700, but which later evolved into the CRJ550 — becoming the first aircraft in that series. The previous version of the poster will, however, return to the collection in due time.
Our collection hasn’t been added to with new posters featuring Canadian aviation for quite a while. This poster breaks that streak. It depicts the modern airliner Airbus A321neo of Air Transat, which is currently not represented in our catalog.
It’s not often that I get to draw aircraft from the African continent, but a new piece has broken that dry spell too. By the time I’m writing these lines, the file for this aircraft has already been sent to the print lab, and by the time you’re reading this, the printed poster will already be on its way… not to Africa.
An unexpected addition for me personally was the update to the old workhorse MD-11 of FedEx. Why unexpected? I started this work last year, but a string of urgent orders pulled me away from the process, and I nearly forgot about it. It was a note in my work plan that saved the day.
______________
Poster Additions (Page 2)
Seven years ago, I drew a poster featuring the CRJ550 of the American regional airline GoJet in its new United Express livery for the first time. For a while, it became the best-selling poster. We sold twenty copies in just the first day! But time flies, and it feels like it was only yesterday. Gradually the excitement died down, and the time came to refresh the poster.
In the previous version, the aircraft stood against the backdrop of the famous Gateway Arch, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Over time, sales experience showed that posters featuring landmarks have a limited audience — precisely because of their tight connection to a specific place. That’s why all new posters feature a neutral yet unique background. This doesn’t mean that scenic locations will disappear from posters forever. I’ve kept the St. Louis backdrop. It will be polished up and added to a library of landmark backgrounds that I’m putting together. Slipped up? Well, let’s consider it a teaser.
Now let me tell you about the second poster that joined the world aviation fleet of our Aviaposter project. As I wrote in the preview on the first page, it features an airline not currently in our catalog. I used that phrasing deliberately, because one Air Transat poster did exist within our project — but it’s currently set aside for an update, and it will be a special edition. But that’s a different story. Today I’m presenting the Air Transat poster with the brand-new Airbus A321NX. Its livery, flowing from deep blue to light blue and back again, seems to mirror the colors of the sky across different latitudes — from north to south — where the popular destinations lie.
The next two posters managed to "jump" into the news feed at the very last moment.
Say hello to the African giant — the Airbus A340−600 of South African Airways. We already have one A340 from this airline, but this time it’s the -600 variant on display. Every time I have to draw the six-hundred, its length makes me want to change the poster proportions, widening it from 900 to 1200 mm. It really is an enormously long aircraft! Unfortunately — or fortunately — the lab’s technical capabilities don’t allow for that without a loss in print quality. In the meantime, the printed poster has already set off on its journey across the ocean to the United States.
And finally, the fourth and last poster. It is the updated McDonnell Douglas MD-11 °F of FedEx Express — the patriarch of express delivery. I placed the livery of aircraft N596FE onto the updated model template, where I swapped out the set of highlights and refined a number of details. Then I drew a new landscape and sky. The result is an entirely new poster, which wrapped up the January work.
News #11
Belated but eternal words
The first days of the new year are always a time when the past meets the future that we create here and now. Which means it's time to turn dreams into plans. To launch projects postponed "for later."
2026 can become the year when we learn to value the silence in the pauses between tasks as much as the tasks themselves. Learn to say "no" to the unnecessary in order to say "yes" to what matters most. Learn to see in mistakes not failure, but data for course correction. May this year give you the courage to begin what makes you hesitant. And patience when the path seems endlessly long. And of course, gratitude for what you already have.
And most importantly, remember that even the most difficult step becomes easier when there's someone nearby who will support you and quietly say: "I believe in you. You can do it!" Cherish each other!
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Wanna Chat? Author's Column
A stream of thoughts
Winter this time has turned out to be very snowy, and as numerous reports testify, this is a widespread phenomenon in our latitudes. So much precipitation has fallen that this winter's norm has already been exceeded. Only the snow doesn't agree with any norms and continues to fall. "There's no such thing as bad weather," goes the famous song, and it's truly so. The beauty outside the window is indescribable! Inspired by the surrounding nature, I drew the background for one of today's posters.
For our project, the year has begun quite successfully, one could say. Recently, packages were sent containing a total of 14 posters ordered already in the new year. Most of the prints were ordered from the catalog, but there were also completely new ones that I had to work on intensively during the first days of the New Year. I'm satisfied – this work is to my liking and brings only joy and satisfaction.
Do you know when I started drawing aircraft profiles? It began somewhere in the second half of the 1970s. Those were pencil drawings and blueprints, executed precisely in profile. I was greatly influenced by various encyclopedias and technical reference books that were abundant on the bookshelves in my parents' home. That's how it all began. And who would have thought that half a century later...
The day after the New Year 2026 arrived, I celebrated my birthday. That day I received many greetings in different languages from all corners of the world in virtually all social networks. Thank you all very much! You reinforce my confidence that all of this is not in vain. You give me new ideas and inspiration, and this is important to me. Oh yes, I'm 62. No longer a boy, but I haven't stopped dreaming, I make long-term plans and hope for the best for all of us.
And now I'll allow myself to rest a bit and finish writing this news release.
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New Additions to the Catalog
The first posters of 2026
In the first days of the new year, we published two new posters. Both were drawn in the final days of the passing year. And the last one even received a quite festive winter landscape as its background. But its connection to the New Year holidays doesn't end there. I wrote more about this on the "Poster Gallery" page.
At first, that was my plan – to publish two posters from last year and immediately write a fresh news release. But the beginning of the year turned out to be very busy. I accepted orders, drew four new posters, am currently working on the fifth, and just received a request for the sixth. May my whole year go this way!
The news release of our virtual newspaper fell slightly behind events. And so, at the last moment, a third poster joined the two new additions to the catalog. Like the previous pair, it's a new release. But unlike them, it was drawn already in 2026.
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The first posters of 2026. Page 2
Winter. The first month of the year has already reached its midpoint. Outside the window are meter-high snowdrifts, and the thermometer is stuck in the blue zone, apparently for a long time. Take a look at our new posters. Just from the airline names alone, your hand reaches for a mug of hot tea.
I don't think anyone needs to be told that Alaska is about cold. A land of snow, short summers sparse in bright colors. A land of strong people, harsh mountain peaks, and cold seas. And although Alaska Airlines has long been based much further south than Anchorage, the spirit of the north is present in its livery: the color palette of polar latitudes and a northern dweller in a warm hood.
Apparently this wasn't enough for me, and a poster of a small regional carrier from the ancient Russian city of Kostroma appeared in the collection. This is the homeland of our Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), in case you didn't know. And although it's not the extreme north, it's still the North, with all its icy attributes. It's no coincidence that a snowflake is painted on the vertical stabilizer of the old but still very sturdy An-26 aircraft. In addition to everything, the fuselage bears a large inscription: "City of Sharya – the northern capital of the Kostroma region." This is a very tiny town north of Kostroma. And all around are endless forests and snow – lots of snow – that's how I painted it in the background.
Such a winter company has gathered for the New Year in our catalog. Both posters were the first to receive the 2026 copyright at the bottom of the sheet.
But that's not all. As I already wrote on the first page, new orders are already knocking at the project's door. I've included one of them in this release. Completely fresh, and most importantly, hot as the Arizona sands. The poster depicts the aircraft in the days of its youth. And even though it now flies for a completely different airline, this poster will preserve the memory of past years, like a photograph of an old friend.
The first days of the new year are always a time when the past meets the future that we create here and now. Which means it's time to turn dreams into plans. To launch projects postponed "for later."
2026 can become the year when we learn to value the silence in the pauses between tasks as much as the tasks themselves. Learn to say "no" to the unnecessary in order to say "yes" to what matters most. Learn to see in mistakes not failure, but data for course correction. May this year give you the courage to begin what makes you hesitant. And patience when the path seems endlessly long. And of course, gratitude for what you already have.
And most importantly, remember that even the most difficult step becomes easier when there's someone nearby who will support you and quietly say: "I believe in you. You can do it!" Cherish each other!
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Wanna Chat? Author's Column
A stream of thoughts
Winter this time has turned out to be very snowy, and as numerous reports testify, this is a widespread phenomenon in our latitudes. So much precipitation has fallen that this winter's norm has already been exceeded. Only the snow doesn't agree with any norms and continues to fall. "There's no such thing as bad weather," goes the famous song, and it's truly so. The beauty outside the window is indescribable! Inspired by the surrounding nature, I drew the background for one of today's posters.
For our project, the year has begun quite successfully, one could say. Recently, packages were sent containing a total of 14 posters ordered already in the new year. Most of the prints were ordered from the catalog, but there were also completely new ones that I had to work on intensively during the first days of the New Year. I'm satisfied – this work is to my liking and brings only joy and satisfaction.
Do you know when I started drawing aircraft profiles? It began somewhere in the second half of the 1970s. Those were pencil drawings and blueprints, executed precisely in profile. I was greatly influenced by various encyclopedias and technical reference books that were abundant on the bookshelves in my parents' home. That's how it all began. And who would have thought that half a century later...
The day after the New Year 2026 arrived, I celebrated my birthday. That day I received many greetings in different languages from all corners of the world in virtually all social networks. Thank you all very much! You reinforce my confidence that all of this is not in vain. You give me new ideas and inspiration, and this is important to me. Oh yes, I'm 62. No longer a boy, but I haven't stopped dreaming, I make long-term plans and hope for the best for all of us.
And now I'll allow myself to rest a bit and finish writing this news release.
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New Additions to the Catalog
The first posters of 2026
In the first days of the new year, we published two new posters. Both were drawn in the final days of the passing year. And the last one even received a quite festive winter landscape as its background. But its connection to the New Year holidays doesn't end there. I wrote more about this on the "Poster Gallery" page.
At first, that was my plan – to publish two posters from last year and immediately write a fresh news release. But the beginning of the year turned out to be very busy. I accepted orders, drew four new posters, am currently working on the fifth, and just received a request for the sixth. May my whole year go this way!
The news release of our virtual newspaper fell slightly behind events. And so, at the last moment, a third poster joined the two new additions to the catalog. Like the previous pair, it's a new release. But unlike them, it was drawn already in 2026.
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The first posters of 2026. Page 2
Winter. The first month of the year has already reached its midpoint. Outside the window are meter-high snowdrifts, and the thermometer is stuck in the blue zone, apparently for a long time. Take a look at our new posters. Just from the airline names alone, your hand reaches for a mug of hot tea.
I don't think anyone needs to be told that Alaska is about cold. A land of snow, short summers sparse in bright colors. A land of strong people, harsh mountain peaks, and cold seas. And although Alaska Airlines has long been based much further south than Anchorage, the spirit of the north is present in its livery: the color palette of polar latitudes and a northern dweller in a warm hood.
Apparently this wasn't enough for me, and a poster of a small regional carrier from the ancient Russian city of Kostroma appeared in the collection. This is the homeland of our Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost), in case you didn't know. And although it's not the extreme north, it's still the North, with all its icy attributes. It's no coincidence that a snowflake is painted on the vertical stabilizer of the old but still very sturdy An-26 aircraft. In addition to everything, the fuselage bears a large inscription: "City of Sharya – the northern capital of the Kostroma region." This is a very tiny town north of Kostroma. And all around are endless forests and snow – lots of snow – that's how I painted it in the background.
Such a winter company has gathered for the New Year in our catalog. Both posters were the first to receive the 2026 copyright at the bottom of the sheet.
But that's not all. As I already wrote on the first page, new orders are already knocking at the project's door. I've included one of them in this release. Completely fresh, and most importantly, hot as the Arizona sands. The poster depicts the aircraft in the days of its youth. And even though it now flies for a completely different airline, this poster will preserve the memory of past years, like a photograph of an old friend.
News #10
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