October 5, 2023 11:04 am
Published by magnuslonden
Finalist in the contest My Finland Poster 2023. The theme was SAUNA. The artist presents her artwork: When I was little my family and I used to go to this place we called “bastuön”. It was a cozy, beautiful island close to Helsinki with a small sauna on it. I have a vivid memory of […]
September 13, 2023 10:00 am
Published by magnuslonden
Finalist in the contest My Finland Poster 2023. The theme was SAUNA. The artist presents her artwork: Coming from Sweden, I´m both familiar with and passionate about the sauna experience. My favourite kind of sauna is when it has access to an icy cold lake. And my favourite time of the day for a sauna […]
January 11, 2023 5:16 pm
Published by magnuslonden
In this French-language poster for Norway, the (unknown) artist with the signature ”Schenk” has used the sky to illustrate the smallness of the tourist and woman & man. Thru the poster we reverently admire the mighty mountain world. The slogan in the poster reinforces the message: Norway is a true natural wonder!
March 3, 2020 1:00 pm
Published by magnuslonden
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 […]
March 3, 2020 1:00 pm
Published by magnuslonden
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 […]
April 23, 2019 2:20 pm
Published by linnea
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 […]
March 19, 2019 10:21 am
Published by magnuslonden
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 […]
March 14, 2019 11:17 am
Published by magnuslonden
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 […]
December 7, 2018 1:50 pm
Published by juusohuhtamaki
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 explore 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 […]
December 7, 2018 12:16 pm
Published by tinovuorela
And now a nostalgic tear runs down a Finnish cheek. We’re talking of that link to the town, that symbol of national unity, those bright yellow, rather slow, but always reliable and delightfully sociable…post buses. Everything started in Lapland, where the problems of delivering mail were greatest. The Rovaniemi-Sodankylä line started up in 1921, although […]
December 4, 2018 12:16 pm
Published by tinovuorela
In the words of the artist: My original plan for this poster was to show the best things from my neighbourhood Munkkiniemi in Helsinki. Before my eyes I saw an illustration of the old Cadet school at dusk or youngsters having a party at the beach. But one autumn day when I was walking around […]
December 4, 2018 9:57 am
Published by tinovuorela
The artist presents her art work: Working with posters was a new adventure to me! The inspiration for the two posters designed for Come to Finland came from daily walks in Helsinki and walking trips to nature. The special colours of Finland always amazes me. Let it be summer with the bright lights or winter […]
December 3, 2018 12:19 pm
Published by tinovuorela
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 that thought go, so since 2016 we continuously arrange […]