Finalist, MyFinlandPoster contest 2025! The artist presents her poster: My poster depicts a scene in Lapland, where someone is skiing in the moonlight and northern lights are glowing in the sky. The simple scene and harmonious color palette brings peace and relaxation to the viewer. With the bold typography I wanted to bring a hint […]
Finalist in the travel poster contest My Finland Poster 2025 The artist presents her artwork: My poster is made with ink and brush and then finalized digitally. The illustration is based on my own experience. My friend and I were lying in the snow. The sky was infinite and we felt like we were floating […]
Finalist in the travel poster contest My Finland Poster 2025 The artist presents her artwork: In the poster I created, there is a winter landscape with a ski trail and snow-covered trees. The northern lights shine in the sky above the ski trail. Surely travel posters can’t simply remain a cry from the past? Absolutely […]
Finalist in the travel poster contest My Finland Poster 2025 The artist presents her artwork: My poster depicts one of my favorite things to do in the winter – dipping into a hole in the ice in a lake or the sea. It would truly be magical to see the northern light reflecting from the […]
Runner-up, MyFinlandPoster 2025 (theme: Northern Lights) In the words of the artist: My poster is inspired by a snowy landscape nearby a small eastern Finnish town I grew up in. Wondering foxes and especially their footsteps can often be seen during the winter. And if you are lucky, northern lights are illuminating the scenery. I […]
Winner, My Finland Poster 2025! In my poster I wanted to capture the northern lights above a small cottage in the middle of the woods. Northern lights are hard to see in the city, but in the quiet countryside you can enjoy their mesmerising dance. Even the rabbits wonder at them while they eat the […]
Beer and fish, that’s the obvious gourmet combo, isn’t it? At least according to this Finnish vintage poster. The poster highlights the rich variety of different types of fish in the Finnish lakes and in the sea. And then, to everybody’s surprise, it’s promoting Finnish beer (the label on the beer glass translates as “Finnish, […]
Finalist in the contest My Finland Poster 2023. The theme was SAUNA. The artist presents her art work: I wanted the poster to be joyful, fresh, positive and with loads of detail. I have, amongst other colors, used white and blue, representing Finland. My inspiration comes from Finland in the summer, and all the water […]
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 […]
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 exlore 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 […]
Redan år 1915 talade ordförande för Turistföreningen om att det är dags att plocka fram den gamla goda kanoten och bege sig ut på upptäcktsfärd i Finland. Men först i slutet av 1920-talet vände man sig till utländska turister med broschyrer och affischer om de oändliga möjligheterna som Finland ju faktiskt kunde (och kan) erbjuda. […]
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 […]
One of the most active producers of poster art and graphic travel brochures in Finland was the Finland Steamship Company. 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 interesting about this […]
As Päivi Hovi demonstrates in her excellent book MainoskuvaSuomessa (The Advertising Image in Finland), the artist was clearly inspired in this classic and much-loved Furuhjelm poster by his stay in Munich in 1905 and the style of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus.
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 […]
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 […]
