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 […]
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 […]
The fish are BIG in Finland. Yes, Finland is the best – in every possible sense!!! Don’t believe us? Well, then you really should read this short extract from a travel brochure from the late 1920s: ”No other country in the world can provide such opportunitiesfor boating, fishing, bathing and camping. Finland has over thirty-five […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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beautiful poster for the Olympic games in 1940 (they were cancelled due to the war) the city surroundings have been replaced by the archipelago, Söderarm Lighthouse under the air tunnel between the Åland islands and Stockholm to be precise.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?
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.
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. During the winter of 1944–1945, after the wars, everyone in Finland was already aware of the bitter truth when […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The first flight connection between Tallinn in Estonia and Helsinki was established on 29 June 1923. This was the start of the Aero airline, which later became Finnair. Aero realised early on the potential of poster advertising and invested from the beginning in high-quality advertising graphics. Whole poster series were printed in a particular style […]
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 […]
This poster is extremely rare, it might not even have been used, since it was printed in 1940 when Europe was in flames.
One can only congratulate poster artist Martti Mykkänen. He managed to capture the essence of Turku (the former capital city of Finland) – its history, culture and the archipelago – in a modern and suggestive way.
