The artist presents her artwork: I was working on this poster in November 2019 for the “My Finland poster 2020” contest. I had a lot of ideas on the topic “Helsinki” but was kind of stuck with all of them when suddenly the Finnish National Football Team qualified for the European Championship 2020. I am […]
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 […]
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 […]
We digged deep into the poster hunter’s archives. This classic one from the 1950s certainly made us giggle, and now we hope that it will delight your summer days as well. No matter what is served in the glass. In this poster, the slogan shouts in Finnish: ”A new world – A sober world” and […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the industrial city of Valkeakoski 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 […]
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 popular resort town of Naantali. 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 if […]
That’s the castle of Olavinlinna you can see through the window – the location where the famous Opera festival is arranged every summer. 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 if you think you know something […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the popular resort town of Naantali. 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 if […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Kuopio in the region of Savo 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 […]
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 […]
Most of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the popular route Helsinki-Tallinn. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to travel by boat, not by airplane, between these cities. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product […]
This poster is one of the creations of Raimo Raimela and Osmo K. Oksasen. It was made for the Finnish State Railways in 1958, when these two advertising artists shared a studio in Helsinki.
