This poster was designed to market the first ferry between Finland and Sweden able to take cars onboard. Viking Line started this route going from Galtby in the Finnish archipelago passing via the Åland islands and then on to a small harbour in Sweden. Nowadays Viking Line runs from Turku, Naantali or Helsinki mainly to […]
It was at the end of the 1930s that the Finland Travel organisation decided to raise their profile in Sweden and call upon a bard, the great Finno-Swedish poet Elmer Diktonius to be exact. He was set to formulate the new siren calls from the east in the new brochure, while top graphic artist Aarne […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the great Lake Päijänne has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, so please write us […]
During the 1930s, the Swede was by far the most common tourist in Finland (this poster is in Swedish). Our nation was visited by as many Swedes as Estonians, Germans and Englishmen put together. But the 1930s were also a time of language strife in Finland, and the tourism officials were worried that the conflict […]
This poster advertises the medieval castle of Turku (Åbo in Swedish), one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland.
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the harbour city of Kotka in the southeast has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, […]
How could one tempt the boldest travelers to Finland? The answer was that we had to offer something that no other place could. As a result, the advertising people in Hull, England, came up with the brilliant slogan: Finland – Off the Beaten Track. In other words, Finland was described as a country that the […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own. Here it’s the idea of spending a holiday driving around in Finland that’s promoted. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Viipuri has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to this quite international city. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, so […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the great Lake Päijänne has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. The artist for this artwork is unknown. But we continuously seek more information about all posters […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Lappeenranta in eastern Finland has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to Finland. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, so […]
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 this poster is true. Or…almost at least. […]
As early as 1915, the chairman of the Finnish Tourist Society thought it was high time to brush the dust off the old canoe and head off to explore Finland. However, it was only at the end of the 1920s that promotional efforts were directed at foreigners and brochures and posters started to proclaim the […]
We surely like this poster. The plane is flying on low altitude over sea side Helsinki, in perfect harmony with the sailboaters. Yes, we like the poster so much that we put it on the cover of our book… And THAT, if anything, is poster love. Recently our favourite poster hunter called us: he had […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
After our great poster exhibition at the National Museum in Finland closed in 2017 we received an e-mail from the US: ”I have something you might be interested in”. It was a Finn-American writing, and he surely was right. In the 1980s he had bought a Finnish travel poster from a collector in NYC. It […]
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 […]
