Moroccan Vintage Travel Poster for ‘Air Atlas Maroc’ by Debureau, 1954

This is a Mid-Century Modern period travel poster for Air Maroc from 1954, before Morocco gained independence. This poster features a minimal but intricately exotic design: it has a gradient blue background (lighter at the top, darker at the bottom) with six small scenes from around the world. At the bottom of the poster it reads Air Atlas Maroc in a bold orange typography. Above the text is the Air Maroc logo, and coming out of the center of the logo is a thin, swooping white line. This line loops between the small scenes, ending at the airplane seen at the top of the poster, just above the small scene of the Arc de Triomphe. This is a wonderfully playful poster that reminds us of the illustrations in the Indiana Jones films.