Finnish Travel Poster of the Year 2017 – Runner up! In the words of the artist duo: Travel posters are about simplifying and enlarging, so we chose an aspect which is very important for us: nature is always near in Finland. In the poster we wanted to show the long peaceful summer nights, to enjoy […]
Forget about the summer, it’s still the winter which is Finland’s trump card. Apart from ski competitions in for example Lahti and Kuopio it was mainly the State Railways that promoted the Finnish winter, with new travel posters every season. The tourists were to make no mistake: if they were going to Lapland they were […]
Heikki Ahtiala’s funny fellow will always have a special place in our heart. While researching for the book we found the English version of this poster (”To Finland with me”) in Washington and we where taken by it straight away. A year later a French collector who had this version in French contacted us. Needless […]
The poster was commissioned by the Finnish State Railways. Artist Osmo K. Oksanen asked his daughter to pose in front of the family house drive way. There she was given Ms Oksanen’s make-up bag to hold and suddenly a little boy with a suitcase was created. Note the labels on the suitcase: Inari, Kuopio, Ivalo […]
