If you want to travel properly, you should travel with time. Maybe go abord in Travemunde and have a few days on the sea before arriving in Stockholm. Focus on the journey, not only on the destination.
The mountains, rapids, forests and cultural heritage of Jämtland – in the middle of Sweden! The moose is a well-known symbol for Jämtland. The moose made out of wood, known as Jämtälgen, came to being 1955 after the newspaper Östersunds-Posten announced a design competition to find a good souvenir for and from the county of […]
Just looking at this poster makes you happy, isn’t that so? The genius Erik Heffer is the man behind this Winter in Jämtland-poster. The Alpine World Championship in downhill skiing was organized in Åre in 1954 and becomes a sucée that consolidated Jämtland as the winter sports landscape above all others in Sweden. And it […]
The sea, the sky, the boat steering towards the lcity surrounded by the yellow fields. For many of us this is excactly how we see Visby when we close our eyes. Erik Ölmebo definitely knew what he was doing when making this poster!
What difference does a year make? Stockholm actually celebrated 700 years already in 1952, but the Olympics was held in Helsinki that year and the cities didn’t want to compete about the tourists. So Stockholm decided to celebrate the jubilee a year later instead, 1953. And for any jubilee there has to be a poster! […]
In 1952 the Swedish American Line announced a big poster contest. The contest activated almost 700 artists, both professionals and happy amateurs. One of the artist who participarted was Inga-Greta Solbreck-Möller who created this happy poster for the contest. She didn’t win, but the poster made it to the top 10. However, for us this […]
