The artist presents her poster: I wanted to capture the clean and lively nature of Sweden, with the ocean and sunny fish loving people, and top it with the colors of the Swedish flag. Surely travel posters can’t simply remain a cry from the past? Absolutely not. We live in a completely visual world where […]
You know we love travel posters with our whole hearts, but did you know that the poster hunter also keeps other treasures, such as propaganda posters, in his archives? Since the prohibition period, efforts have been made to work for sobriety with the help of posters. The dangers of liquor have traditionally been warned by […]
“Ack, Värmland, du sköna, du härliga land, du krona bland Svea rikes länder! Och komme jag än mitt i det förlovade land, till Värmland jag ändå återvänder.” Värmlandssången är det många som känner till. Denna svenska sång är baserad på en traditionell folkmelodi och har framförts i många tappningar sedan den kom til 1822. Men […]
A classic in the poster world. The slightly fuzzy slogan “See the Lands of the Vikings” causes us to blush a bit, but at the same time we are proud of how the Nordic countries are united. The artist Ben Blessum was born in Norway, but got his career as a painter and illustrator in […]
Lapland was an extremely male domain at the beginning of the tourism age, and many eager men, but young and old, went north. The caravan of cartographers, geologists and botanists seems to never end. However, it can be difficult for us to understand how extremely far away and exciting Swedish Lapland was perceived to be […]
In 1952 SAL, The Swedish American Line, announced a poster contest. The jury got as many as 719 contributions and a young Fritjof Pedersén won with his poster “The Swan”. SAL had their headquarters in Gothenburg, and the day before the winner was published Fritjof got a phone call to his home in Stockholm: “You […]
Saltsjöbaden was once an area that put a lot of effort in their marketing: Come to us! It’s really nice out here in the woods! The artist Ernst Åkerbladh rented a summer house in the area and the marketing officer at the time was cleaver enough to use his artistic skills.
In the 1930s, the expansion of the train lines was happening at a brisk pace, and thanks to that Sweden now becomes closer than ever before. Now it was possible for visitors to come to Stockholm, without spending days at sea. Of course, the train’s expansion is a huge boost for tourism and B. Gjörwell […]
Göta Canal is one of the largest constructions in Sweden – it took over 20 year to build this 190 km long artificial waterway. The canal has been one of the most popular tourist destinations in Sweden for a long time, and it’s not hard to understand why: with magnificent views and beautiful scenary the […]
We don’t know much about this poster, but we know that we like it! This picture manages to convey a wonderful feeling of skiing at its best.
