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Aero 1925 – Junkers

October 5, 2023 9:24 am Published by

This is one of Aero’s very first posters. The artist is the legendary Oscar Furuhjelm and the year is 1925. The newly founded Aero Oy (later Finnair) can already boast an impressive flight schedule with its Junkers aircraft. The ”airfield” is located on the water at Katajanokka in the center of Helsinki. The telephone number […]

Finnish Air Lines 25 yrs

September 27, 2023 4:15 pm Published by

When Aero (here called “Finnish Air Lines”) turned 25 years in 1948 the company contacted the advertising company SEK. Why? Because they needed a poster to celebrate the anniversary, naturally enough. The poster master Jorma Suhonen was one of the founding members of SEK and this important assignment was given to him. Looking at the […]

Kar-air by Erik Bruun

April 23, 2019 2:20 pm Published by

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 […]

Jeg rejser til Finland

December 7, 2018 2:48 pm Published by

Finland today for many younger Danes feels like a peripheral Nordic country, but it was different before. With a direct boat connection between Copenhagen and Helsinki and long-standing traditions in commerce and tourism, Finland had many friends down in the Nordic south. In this brochure from the 1950s, Danes are encouraged to visit the country […]

Fly to Suomi

December 7, 2018 1:47 pm Published by

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 […]

Aero – Archipelago

December 7, 2018 1:44 pm Published by

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beautiful poster for the Olympic games in 1940 (they were cancelled due to the war) the city surroundings have been replaced by the archipelago, Söderarm Lighthouse under the air tunnel between the Åland islands and Stockholm to be precise.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?

AERO & Aerotransport

December 7, 2018 12:29 pm Published by

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 […]

Aero Stewardess

December 7, 2018 12:08 pm Published by

This poster is extremely rare, it might not even have been used, since it was printed in 1940 when Europe was in flames.

Karhumäki Airways

December 7, 2018 11:51 am Published by

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 […]

The Salmon Flight by Erik Bruun

December 5, 2018 2:27 pm Published by

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. […]

Aero & the Cathedral

December 3, 2018 3:27 pm Published by

This is a true poster classic by the master Jorma Suhonen: A Junkers Ju 52/3m flies past the Helsinki Cathedral. And it’s not as absurd as it may look. At the time (in 1933) Helsinki actually didn’t have a “regular” airfield. Instead, the planes landed at the terminal on nearby Katajanokka – with pontoons on […]