Look closely at the smoke which slowly is coming out of the chimneys in Aukusti Tuhka’s poster (to the right)! The smoke says a lot about how we Finns like it out there at the summer cottage: Neighbours, sure – but not too close! One cottage per lake would be kind of nice. The brilliance […]
Look closely at the smoke which slowly is coming out of the chimneys in Aukusti Tuhka’s poster (to the right)! The smoke says a lot about how we Finns like it out there at the summer cottage: Neighbours, sure – but not too close! One cottage per lake would be kind of nice. The brilliance […]
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. […]
Ilmari Sysimetsä’s Olympics poster featuring Paavo Nurmi – the Flying Finn – is most likely the most famous Finnish poster ever. The poster is also a great example of recycling. For the Olympic Games which were to take place in 1940 a big travel poster contest was held. The price was shared by three contestants, […]
Winner – Come to Satakunta travel poster contest, 2016! Or in Minna’s own words: I was inspired by the Whitefish soup, which is the traditional dish of the beautiful area of Satakunta. You can find all the main ingredients of this tasty soup from this visual recipe. Bon Appetit! Surely travel posters can’t simply remain […]
3rd place: Finnish Travel Poster of the Year 2017! The artist presents her poster: When we lived in Finland some years ago, my daughter told a story about a girl, whose hair is so long that she can reach from Finland to Mexico. Her tale inspired me to draw this daydreaming girl, with a little […]
5th place: Finnish Travel Poster of the Year 2017! The artist presents his artwork: When I designed the poster I wanted to create a set of shapes and colors that represent different contrasts that you can find in Finland. Blue triangles representing the water, green triangles representing the forests, white triangles representing the snow and […]
The routes south to Tallinn, Stettin and Copenhagen and westwards to Stockholm had a double purpose. They sent Finns out into the world but also brought back a breath of fresh air from other countries. Traffic to Estonia was already popular in the 1930s, and the competition was just as tough as it is today. […]
Sigh… What if one could fly back in time, put on those skies with a bunch of friends and catch the sun on Pyhätunturi – belonging to the southernmost fell range in Finland. But you can! The fells are still there, the sun is still there, so just do it! The national park of Pyhätunturi […]
What was new to the poster art of the 1950’s was the happy mood – a clear counter reaction to the war and the years of hardship during the end of the 1940’s … Finally they even took their kids with them! We love this poster since this is among the very first Finnish travel […]
In the words of the artist: The four seasons makes Finland very special for me. Thus my posters depicts spring and autumn (the other one will be published at a later date) when trees and bushes are naked and build graphic patterns in black and grey. I made a series of ”Odd Birds” among other […]
In the words of the artist: I became fascinated by the hand-painted typographies of the older posters when skimming the excellent Come to Finland -book. My starting point for the poster was working as the long gone artists did, by hand and without Photoshop. It was somewhat exciting to make everything look just as I […]
The artist presents his art work: I draw by hand. That way I get the right atmosphere and human touch in the illustration. When I draw forms they tend to become round shaped. My lines are strict. My favourite drawing tool is the brush, I like it for the versatility it provides. The brush is […]
Runner-up, Come to Ostrobothnia poster contest, 2016! In the words of the artist: When designing the poster I wanted to visualize the Ostobothnian (and Finnish) summer night in a new way. Instead of focusing only on the pastel colored sky I worked with the contrast between darkness and light. I often work with the intergration […]
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 […]
Finalist in the ”Come to Ostrobothnia” poster contest, 2016! Surely travel posters can’t simply remain a cry from the past? Absolutely not. We live in a completely visual world where the picture is stronger than ever. That’s why the following question hit us: How would contemporary artists depict Finland of today? We could not let […]
This is a true poster classic by the master Jorma Suhonen: A Junkers Ju 52/3m flies past the Helsinki Cathedral. And it’s not as absurd as it may look. At the time (in 1933) Helsinki actually didn’t have a “regular” airfield. Instead, the planes landed at the terminal on nearby Katajanokka – with pontoons on […]
Finalist in the ”Come to Ostrobothnia” poster contest, 2016! The artist presents her work: My home is in a small Ostrobothian village from where I took the inspiration for my Come to Finland poster. Dancing the tango into the small hours on a magic summer night is a common occurrence, and if you are lucky […]
In the past, the natural northern sea route went between the cities Stockholm-Turku (Åbo)-St Petersburg. The Finland Steamship Company (FÅA) held a frontline position. In the poster the pride and joys of the steamers Oihonna and Tarmo can be seen. The poster is unique because it offers small, sweet caricatures that follow the European model. […]
