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Dédalo Seaplane Carrier Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Dédalo, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in. 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 Dédalo'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 Dédalo began life as the German cargo ship Neuenfels, seized by Spain as war reparations after the First World War before being converted into the Spanish Navy's first seaplane carrier at Barcelona in 1922. Its aircraft played a decisive role during the 1925 landing at Alhucemas in Morocco — considered the first amphibious operation in history backed by massive air support, dropping over 175 bombs in a single day. The ship carried up to 20 seaplanes and two airships before being decommissioned in 1936.
At a Glance
- ◆Ex-German cargo ship, seized
- ◆Converted at Barcelona, 1922
- ◆Supported Alhucemas landing, 1925
- ◆First mass air-supported landing
- ◆Carried up to 20 seaplanes
- ◆Decommissioned by Spain, 1936
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
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> 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 ship
- ◆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
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
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.
“A cargo ship seized as reparations, rebuilt to carry seaplanes into a war it was never designed for — the Dédalo's whole existence is a series of repurposings. Tracing it by hand felt like giving it, finally, one identity that doesn't change.”
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.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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