November the 21st, 2025 – Croatia Airlines has received prestigious international recognition from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has included the tail design of Croatia Airlines among the hundred selected designs presented in the festive publication “A Century of Design Registration 1925-2025”. The publication marks the centenary of the Hague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Designs.
The design is the Aircraft tail pattern (DM/220 719), which was created back in 2004 by designer Ivana Ivanković and redesigned much more recently in 2024. It clearly reinterprets the globally recognisable Croatian checkerboard motif in a modern, dynamic form.
The publication by the World Intellectual Property Organisation came to be in November and brings carefully selected examples of designs protected by the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs.
It was full of praise for Croatia Airlines, for which this international recognition is important. The authors of the publication note how the Croatia Airlines plane tail evolution relies on tradition, while at the same time being open to the future.
“Precision meets symbolism, and structure meets spirit. Whether on the runway or high in the sky, the tail pattern ensures Croatia Airlines has instant recognition, both at home and abroad. In industrial design, where identity and structure intertwine, this aircraft tail demonstrates how surface can carry meaning and how movement itself can become a form of national expression,” it states.
The Croatia Airlines design has otherwise been presented across two pages with accompanying glossy photographs. For Croatian airlines, this international recognition highlights not only the company, but the value of instantly recognisable Croatian design in a global context. It also provides further confirmation to Croatia Airlines of the importance of combining tradition and modernity, structure and symbolism, national identity and design precision.
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