My Favorite Vintage Travel Poster

I have seen my fair share of mid-century travel posters and there are some truly amazing designs out there, but this one is probably my favorite. Every time I see it, I smile.

It's known as Rainboeing the Skies, for fairly obvious reasons, and was used to announce the addition of the Boeing 747 to El Al Israeli Airlines. It was designed by Dan Reisinger in 1971.

Reisinger did a whole series of amazing work for El Al.

There are two reasons  Rainboeing the Skies isn't hanging in our travel-themed nursery: 1) As a copywriter I'm not sure I could handle a pun that big hanging in my house and 2) today's price tag for the poster is as sky high as a Boeing 747.

1960 Progress Lighting Catalog

This Progress Lighting catalog from 1960 has a great mixture of lights that would look good alongside knotty pine cabinets and lights that would look great in a mid-century modern living room.

Modern Ocean Creature Lights

Our kitchen ceiling light stopped working. Turns out we need to replace the fixture, which isn't heartbreaking because we don't really like the fixture. I wish one of these ocean creature light fixtures by Roxy Russell Design would work because they're so beautiful, but we'd probably end up hitting our head on it. So the hunt for a mid-century kitchen ceiling light begins.

Mid-Century Desk with World Map Top

This mid-century desk with a world map on the top hit Austin's Craiglist yesterday and it was gone before I left work. If it stuck around for more than a few hours it would have been the future homework desk of my little one. It would have had to live in the attic for years seeing as school hasn't even started yet, but it would have been worth the wait.

Luckily, it looks like there are a few different mid-century desks with world map tops out there. Hopefully one will be available when homework time starts.

Travel Pennants and Souvenir Pennants

My parents found some old souvenir pennants that I bought with my allowance decades ago on a family road trip. They're not mid-century, but they do have some interesting designs. And they gave me the idea that mid-century travel pennants would be a great addition to any travel-themed nursery. They're small, usually inexpensive and easily changeable so you can keep things fresh.