The artist presents her poster: Sweden is my home away from home. I have vacationed in Sweden with my family since I was a little kid, I went to university in Stockholm, I volunteered in Malmö… I have experienced Sweden in every season from -30°C to +30°C, from north to south, from east to west. […]
The artist presents his poster: My inspiration for the creation of the poster was midsummer, when nature turns green, yellow and white. It is a good time to go hiking in the forests of Sweden. In the illustration I want to ”tell” the story of a couple and their dog who are hiking in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Like many other travel posters, this poster came to be through a poster contest. The city of Helsingborg organized the competition and Gunnar Christenson won the first prize with this entry. The focus in the poster is the tower Kärnan, the only building left from the medieval castle that once stood in Helsingborg. The story […]
The company SVEA is one of three shipping companies (together with the Finnish Ångfartygs AB and Ångfartygs AB Bore) that later merged in the 1950s and became what today is Tallink Silja Line. The company got its start in 1871, when four wholesalers in Stockholm came together and started the business. It was a golden […]
Carl Mikael Gunne was a painter through and through, and this is the only poster we have found amongst his works. But what a poster – he has truly managed to capture the soul of Medelpad on a canvas! Born in Sundsvall as he was, he knew how to paint the movements of a river. […]
If you are going to make a poster about how fantastic and wonderful it is to travel to and in Lapland, the hardest part is that you are forced to opt out of lots of fantastic arguments for the heaviest: Two months of sun, around the clock.
Summer and sun and vacation on the Kulla penisula!
