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IRANAIR LOGO HISTORY

After the Iran National Airline was registered as a national upon a series of ancient Iranian motifs. His most significant
company, it officially started under the acronym "HOMA," inspiration was Homa, the Persian mythological griffin, which
made by combining initial letters of the Persian phrase. For both can be found in prosperous Persepolis and described in the
brevity and clarity, Iran National Airline changed to IranAir. To books of R. Grishman, the famous French archeologist who
choose the logo, a logo competition announcement appeared in specialized in ancient Iran.
Kayhan and Ettelaat newspapers in 1961. Judges came from the The griffin atop the Persepolis column has three distinct
College of Fine Arts. characteristics: an eagle's head, a cow's ears and a horse's mane.
Inspired by an image atop one of the columns at Persepolis, Without legs, according to some accounts, the griffin never rests,
a young Iranian's sketched the competition's winning image. living its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth, and
Edward Zohrabian was only 22 when he drew the well enduring never alighting on the ground. The color offered by the designer
logo of the Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran by drawing was turquoise. But now our logo is dark blue.

Logo files are available for download at
iranair.com