Finnish Travel Poster of the year 2020, 5th place! The artist presents her artwork: The poster is drawn digitally in Photoshop. I used the colors of Helsinki’s coat of arms; blue, yellow (gold), white (silver) and ruby red. Blue + yellow was used to color the birch leaf, red + yellow was used for the […]
Finnish Travel Poster of the year 2020, 4th place! I designed this poster with Photoshop. When I’ve visited Helsinki for a few times, an attractive building always grab my attention when I walk by. The days of Helsinki were always very fulfilling and delicious. In my poster I wanted to include some humour. So I […]
Finnish travel poster of the year, 2020! The artist presents her artwork: I love cities that are by the water – by the sea or by a lake. In Helsinki, nature is ever-present and part of the city that belongs to everyone. I was inspired by nature and wanted to highlight the fact that even […]
Finnish Travel Poster of the year, 2020, 3rd place! The artist presents her artwork: My poster was inspired by autumn walks on the seashores of the Töölö neighborhood where the amazing Sibelius monument is located. The poster combines vector illustrations with vintage paper textures. Surely travel posters can’t simply remain a cry from the past? […]
Travel Poster of the year, 2020. Runner-up! The artist presents his artwork: I drew my inspiration from the old days. I love the styles, textures, and use of colours from the 20’s to 60’s. Other big inspirations while creating this poster were Captain Haddock, Tove Jansson, 1940’s in general, and of course one of my […]
The year is 1931 and an architectural competition is announced: Finally, that church on the Temple square (Temppeliaukio in Finnish) in central Helsinki will be built! But the jury is not happy with the proposals: no winner is chosen. Five years later, a new competition is arranged – but still no winner chosen. But the […]
Three brothers. A hen house. A motorcycle engine. A few decades later, an airline, a factory and a whole community. The brothers Niilo, Valto, and Uuno Karhumäki were certainly not your common idle fellows. At first they built kites, then model planes and later on real airplanes: Karhu I, Karhu II and Karhu III. Not […]
Finalist in the travel poster contest My Finland Poster 2019 The artist presents her artwork: The core idea in my Come to Saimaa poster Uimarit (translated as “swimmers”) is the balance between the nature of Saimaa and the human being. In the illustration the Saimaa ringed seal swims with the person right under the surface, […]
Finalist in the travel poster contest My Finland Poster 2019 The artist presents his artwork: The poster is largely inspired by my experience on a lake behind a student dormitory during my student life in Stockholm. Winter in Scandinavian countries may be regarded as a cold and dark season which is not very appreciated generally, […]
4th place, Finnish travel poster of the year, 2019! The artist presents his artwork: I remember being in Saimaa once or twice when I was a kid. Otherwise my connection to Saimaa is pretty shallow. When I started creating ideas for my poster I knew that I wanted to make it simple but beautiful. To […]
5th place, Finnish travel poster of the year, 2019! The artist presents her artwork: My poster is inspired by a bike ride from Mikkeli to Savonlinna. I made the trip with a friend of mine, and the day was so warm and beautiful so we just had to stop in Sulkava for a refreshing dip. […]
Runner-up: Finnish travel poster of the year, 2019 The artist presents his poster: The poster illustrates a lovely autumn scenery of Saimaa lake. It is inspired by the enjoyable journey that I had from Lappeenranta to Taipalsaari by cycling. Throughout the journey, I was impressed by the vast lake, the maze of islands, the colourful […]
3rd place, Finnish travel poster of the year, 2019! The artist presents her artwork: My poster was drawn in Adobe Illustrator. I find a lot of inspiration through nature and Scandinavian aesthetics, and the shape of Lake Saimaa itself served as the vision for my poster. The natural bays, sounds and capes formed over thousands […]
Winner, My Finland Poster 2019! Lake Saimaa – A place to reflect was selected as the travel poster of the year 2019. The artist presents her artwork: My poster was made by combining traditional art and digital techniques. The trees and moon are hand drawn, painted and cut out then scanned to Photoshop where I […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the harbour city of Oulu in northern Ostrobothnia 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, […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the archipelago city of Pargas (Parainen in Finnish) in south western 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 […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the famous cathedral in the city of Turku 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, […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the capital city of Helsinki 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 […]
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 […]
