Borgå-Porvoo by Segerstråle
December 7, 2018 3:06 pmWhen a city turns 600 years it’s really worth a celebration. And how do you celebrate properly? With a poster, of course.
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Helsinki by night
December 7, 2018 2:45 pmIn 1952 the Olympics were heading for Helsinki and it was time to market the wild nightlife of this Great Metropol. Problem was… no one, not even the locals in Helsinki, knew we had a night life to boast about. So they left it all to the poster artists…
Turku Castle
December 7, 2018 2:42 pmThis poster advertises the medieval castle of Turku (Åbo in Swedish), one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland.
Koiviston merikylpylä
December 7, 2018 2:39 pmThis card advertises the casino (in practice not a casino in the modern sense, rather a restaurant by the sea) in Koivisto. Koivsto used to be a part of Finland, but during the war with the Soviets, Koivisto was captured on 18 June 1944 and transferred to the Soviet Union as part of the Paris […]
Viipuri by Hauhio
December 7, 2018 2:37 pmMost of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Viipuri has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to this quite international city. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, so […]
Lahti by Mykkänen
December 7, 2018 2:36 pmRecently our favourite poster hunter called us: he had found a unique original print of this Lahti poster. What do you reckon, did we buy it or not…?
Helsinki – Capital of Finland
December 7, 2018 2:33 pmWhen Helsinki turned 400 years in 1950 it had to be celebrated with a poster. Luckily artist Gunnar Forsström was around and this wonderful poster was chosen. He also made four other posters (never published) that the Poster Hunters from Come to Finland re-discovered in 2013.
Mikkeli
December 7, 2018 2:32 pmMost of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Mikkeli 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 […]
Helsingfors – 400 år
December 7, 2018 2:30 pmWhen Helsinki turned 400 years in 1950 it had to be celebrated with a poster. Luckily artist Gunnar Forsström was around and this wonderful poster was chosen. He also made four other posters (never published) that the Poster Hunters from Come to Finland re-discovered in 2013. We repeat: we found the original drawings from 1949. […]
Wiipuri by Räisänen
December 7, 2018 2:22 pmMost of the regions, cities and travel companies in Finland created posters and images of their own, just like the city of Viipuri has done here. The idea was naturally to lure travels from near and afar to this quite international city. We continuously seek more information about all images in our product range, so […]
The Railway Station
December 7, 2018 2:14 pmThe central railway station is still the heart of Helsinki. It took fifteen years to build and was completed in 1919. The architect is the mighty Eliel Saarinen. It was used in several travel posters and publications mainly during the 1930’s. The artist for this artwork is unknown. But we continuously seek more information about […]
Helsinki – The seagull
December 7, 2018 2:09 pmThis 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 […]
Helsingfors – The shipwrecked
December 7, 2018 1:52 pmThis 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 […]
Olavinlinna by Väinö Blomstedt
December 7, 2018 1:34 pmAfter 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 […]
Aulanko by Erik Bruun
December 7, 2018 12:44 pmErik 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, […]
Tampere by Christianson
December 7, 2018 12:02 pmPoster 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 […]
Olavinlinna by Kai Nordberg
December 7, 2018 11:55 amWe asked photographer Kai Nordberg to tell the story behind this poster in his own words: ”In the summer of 1958, I was 22 years old then, I worked as an assistant at the photo studio Aho & Soldan. When summer was up I told photgrapher Heikki Ahtola that I’m heading for Savonlinna for a […]
Porvoo-Borgå by Erik Bruun
December 5, 2018 3:36 pmErik 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 Gateway to Finland
December 5, 2018 3:16 pmIn 1930 the artist duo Gunnar Forsström and Göran Hongell captured the maritime Helsinki with the Cathedral in the background. Both posters were published in several different languages, at least German, Finnish, Swedish, English and French. Who said Finland wasn’t international already back then? This thing about the Helsinki Cathedral is by the way quite […]
Helsinki by Erik Bruun
December 5, 2018 2:57 pmErik 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, […]