As a hint of the shape of things to come in the 1930s – i.e. Finland as the ultimate travel destination – The Finland Steamship Company’s (FÅA) representation in England, John Good & Sons tried to keep up the promotional pressure with the charming Off the beaten track series. In order to celebrate the brilliant […]
This poster belong to the series of four original art works that the poster hunters from Come to Finland found in 2013. They were made by Gunnar Forsström for the Helsinki 450-year celebration in 1950, but were never published. So this is true unique poster art. We are therefore proud to bring you these high […]
In Suhonen’s beautiful poster for the Olympic games in 1940 (they were cancelled due to the war) the city surroundings have been replaced by the archipelago, Söderarm Lighthouse under the air tunnel between the Åland islands and Stockholm to be precise. Wouldn’t the archipelago attract you to the Olympics?
The heights of Koli is one of the most classic travel destinations Finland can offer adventurous travelers. Considering that it’s only natural that they wanted to fit both the national romantic Koli AND the Finnish Maiden in the same poster.
s/s Arcturus was built already in 1899 and made the trip to Copenhagen during the 1920’s and 1930’s. In one of the biggest Finnish maritime tragedies s/s Arcturus collided with Finland Steamship Company’s s/s Oberon in the fog on Kattegat 1930 – the sea claimed 43 lives onboard Oberon. The fact that the ships’ captains […]
And now a nostalgic tear runs down a Finnish cheek. We’re talking of that link to the town, that symbol of national unity, those bright yellow, rather slow, but always reliable and delightfully sociable…post buses. Everything started in Lapland, where the problems of delivering mail were greatest. The Rovaniemi-Sodankylä line started up in 1921, although […]
Surely it must have felt like a small, a really small, uphill climb when Finland in the 1930’s tried to depict itself as a sun and beach paradise. But we love that kind of cockiness. Of course we have that one month, July that is, when everything in the posters is true. Or…almost at least. […]
And now a nostalgic tear runs down a Finnish cheek. We’re talking of that link to the town, that symbol of national unity, those bright yellow, rather slow, but always reliable and delightfully sociable…post buses. Everything started in Lapland, where the problems of delivering mail were greatest. The Rovaniemi-Sodankylä line started up in 1921, although […]
Numerous are the works which maybe were discarded by the artist, not flagged in competitions or turned down by the customer. That’s why we also want to offer never before printed, completely unique posters like this one by artist Rolf Christianson.
And now a nostalgic tear runs down a Finnish cheek. We’re talking of that link to the town, that symbol of national unity, those bright yellow, rather slow, but always reliable and delightfully sociable…post buses. Everything started in Lapland, where the problems of delivering mail were greatest. The Rovaniemi-Sodankylä line started up in 1921, although […]
Erik Bruun (born 1926) is a merry rascal whom everyone gets along with. He is the grand old man of poster art in Finland and the question is if anyone else has done more than he has to attract travelers to Finland. In Bruun’s posters one can always sense his typical tongue in cheek attitude, […]
Erik Bruun (born 1926) is a merry rascal whom everyone gets along with. He is the grand old man of poster art in Finland and the question is if anyone else has done more than he has to attract travelers to Finland. In Bruun’s posters one can always sense his typical tongue in cheek attitude, […]
The Swedish graphic artist and painter Ingrid Hagström-Bade is one of the most overlooked figures in Finnish poster art. Typically, though, Bade’s posters are far more famous than the artist herself. The Finland Steamship Company poster from 1936 (poster number 44) with the characteristic perspective of the era is still one of the most potent […]
Is it possible to create a Finnish historical project about travel art without a respectful salute towards both the province of Savo and the famous Puijo Ridge? Of course not. Mrs (Ethel Brilliana) Alec Tweedie, a distinguished English lady who related her travel reminiscences about Finland in 1896, tried to do so, in a manner […]
This is, to our knowledge (and we do know Finnish travel posters…), the oldest graphic travel poster published by the Finnish State Railways. It was also published in Swedish. The artist for this artwork is unknown. But we continuously seek more information about all posters and images in our product range, so please write us […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like all the efforts to market Finland as such. A funny map always works, doesn’t it? The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images […]
Poster competitions began to be popular in the 1950s and they obviously served their purpose, since many of the great works of the decade were the result precisely of a competition. In the mid-1950s the city of Tampere wished to find new visual ways of promoting the town. In other words, it was time to […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Vaasa (this one is for the old part of the city). The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images in […]
Inspired by the traditional clothing of the inuits the anorak (parka) also reached Finland. That’s when the skiing boy on the poster put it on – and soon the anorak became a favorite also for longtime Finnish president Urho Kekkonen. And now the anorak-boy can style up your home!
For all we know this must be the first poster marketing the Finnish winter and Lapland after the war. During the 1930´s the local and national Tourist Associations worked hard to promote Rovaniemi and Finnish Lapland as an exotic destination for the adventureous traveller. Small hotels were built, among others the proud ”Fell-hotel” at Pallas. […]
