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Airbus A380 — Blueprint · Blue — Portrait

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Airbus A380 Blueprint Wall Art

$99 CAD

Open production · Made after your order

Free shipping — Canada only

A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.

  • ✓Made-to-order
  • ✓Free shipping — Canada only
  • ✓14-day returns

We'll hand your exact text to the operator before plotting — 40 characters max.

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your piece is plotted after you order.

A technical plan of the Airbus A380, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in (27.9 x 43.2 cm). A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.

The A380's silhouette exists in file form everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a single copy you can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, under what number.

The Airbus A380 was built to challenge Boeing's decades-long dominance of the very-large-aircraft market with the 747 — the world's largest passenger airliner, and the only full-length double-deck jetliner ever to enter service. It carried its first passengers with Singapore Airlines in October 2007, after a development program costing roughly $25 billion. Airlines increasingly favored smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies flying point-to-point rather than through major hubs, and Airbus ended production in December 2021 after building 254 aircraft.

At a Glance

  • ◆World's largest passenger airliner
  • ◆Only full double-deck jetliner
  • ◆Entered service, October 2007
  • ◆Development cost around $25 billion
  • ◆Production ended December 2021
  • ◆254 built, including 3 test aircraft

Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.

Specifications

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> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17" / 27.9 × 43.2 cm]

> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll

> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]

> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting

> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order

> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada

What the robot does, what a person does

The robot

  • ◆runs the file
  • ◆traces the line
  • ◆lays down ink
  • ◆repeats without tiring

A person

  • ◆picks the aircraft
  • ◆designs the linework
  • ◆decides which lines disappear
  • ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
  • ◆watches the plot start to end
  • ◆signs, numbers, packs

Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.

Included

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Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost

Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.

Hidden signature

The CodeInk signature glowing under UV light on the back of a plotted piece

Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.

A signature only UV light reveals

On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.

“An aircraft built to carry 800 people stopped being built because the industry decided bigger wasn't the future. There's something almost consoling in drawing it anyway — a reminder that being the biggest at something doesn't have to be the same as being the one that lasts.”

— Carlos, CodeInk.art, Québec

Open production, no duplicates

Each plot is made after you order, one at a time. The pen wears slightly with every hour of use, ink density shifts, and no two lines close at exactly the same point — nothing is corrected or hidden.

PERFECTLY imperfect.

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Questions & Answers

Everything you need to know

> STATUS: RESOLVED

Side profile and plan view, drawn line by line, on one sheet. No livery, no emblem, no registration: technical linework only.

CodeInk art is not affiliated with, associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by Airbus SE or its rights holders. Type designations are used for descriptive purposes only.