Sarah Lim is an illustrator born and raised in Sydney, Australia, currently living and working in Chinatown, New York City. Her detailed graphite drawings depict a psychedelic casino of the mind, rendering the tensions between desire, danger and chance. In addition to her illustration practice, she is the art director for the Honey Trap label and party series with Amelia Holt.

Sarah describes the work done for Post Bar: “all graphite drawing about how the body is a state of mind…”

Ezra Miller
B. 1996 – Chicago, IL
Lives and Works in New York City

Ezra Miller is a multi-talented digital artist. Self-taught as a programmer and image-maker, his interest in using cutting-edge graphics programming techniques unifies his practice. A deep engagement with painting, photography, and art history inform his approach to creating infinite, real-time generative artworks with complex feedback networks of shaders. He is fascinated with AI image and video generation and has integrated AI as a core part of his practice. With notable ties to the fashion industry and electronic music world, Miller has worked on a number of high-profile runway shows, in-store installations, and digital campaigns for luxury brands, as well as live audio-visual performances with musicians, album covers, websites, and music videos.

Taika Mannila is a Helsinki-based multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and writer who is currently trying really hard to figure out if a girl can party and write a book at the same time. She’s known for dreaming and joking, and has been a “both hands in the air while playing” type of DJ for, like, a thousand years. Lately, she has found comfort in knowing that Charli XCX is interested in the concept of staying too long (at the party).

Taika describes the work done for Post Bar: “This is how I imagine the Patron Saint of Hot Girl Reading: flapping her angel wings as she lights yet another cigarette. I also have a strong gut feeling that Sexy Angel Summer is loading around the corner! Plus, I just read in my horoscope that May will be a magical time…”

Photo: Silja Minkkinen

Kurt Woerpel is a designer and art director living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In 2018 he assisted in the redesign and relaunch of Interview Magazine under Richard Turley, after which he served as art director until 2024. Now he maintains a full time freelance practice contributing to projects for clients like Apple and Adidas alongside community-run projects like Brooklyn Art Book Fair. In addition to commercial work Kurt is also a partner in TXTbooks, an independent publisher of Risograph zines since 2014. His work has been recognized by the Type Directors Club and Young Guns awards among others.

Kurt describes the work done for Post Bar: “The area surrounding our studio in Bushwick, NY is semi-industrial zone with little to no foot-traffic at night, making it a prime place for people to drop stolen or otherwise derelict vehicles. This poster, a mixture of 3D scan and blender, envisions one of these cars in the last hours leading up to its abandonment.”

Lauri Toikka is a type & graphic designer based in Helsinki. He was the Graphic Designer of the year in 2020. 

Lauri describes the work done for Post Bar: ”A selection of shapes – organic, mineral and imagined. The collection features a variety of textures resembling rocks, crystals, fossils, planets and elastic forms.”

The message of the January ‘25 poster is: “Remember to smell flowers.” It is done by graphic designer and disc jockey Justus Arvelin (2000), who recently returned to Helsinki from New York. The piece features Justus’ late cat Paavo, who knew how to dream of every moment. We should all focus on making the present worth dreaming about. The original artwork is a 4-colour risograph print done at School of Visual Arts in New York at the end of Justus’ exchange studies.

In the work of The Hague-based artist and composer Joeri Woudstra/Torus (1993), nostalgia and melancholy are recurring themes. From musical performances with strobe lights and Top 40 pop music to installations and videos featuring carnival sounds and water slides, his work evokes a longing for (not yet) bygone teenage years.

Pol Taburet (b. 1997, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris. Taburet’s work is a heady and iconoclastic mix of references that range from the artist’s own Caribbean background, the region’s synchretic voodoo traditions and belief systems, wider contemporary culture, as well as classical painting. Born in 1997, the artist has rapidly gained attention with his idiosyncratic painterly style, which he has developed by incorporating the use of airbrushing alongside traditional brush painting with acrylic colors. The formal result is a unique contraposition of textures and finishings, of painstaking detail, “impressionistic” suggestion and symbolism.

This double technique, an amalgamation of old and new, can be viewed as symbolic of Taburet’s work as a whole. The freshness of this subject matter, which somehow feels entirely new, combined with an undeniably youthful and energetic aesthetic, is underpinned by influences that firmly belong to the traditional canon of art history. From Francis Bacon to Baroque and religious art, these influences are all visible but his work is not subjugated to them. His twisted figures, which often appear as hybrids between human and animal, stand out against starkly abstract backgrounds. Taburet says his subjects speak of life and death, and the passage from one to the other. In their own way, his paintings hold a spiritual quality that is hard to define, and which might not be immediately apparent. An instinctive artist, Taburet’s themes, forms, compositions and even meaning often reveal themselves to him as he paints.

Alvar Gullichsen’s (b. 1961) works from his geometric period (2010-) are a continuation of modernist abstract art. He is interested in transcultural, universal forms and patterns that recur in the world. Gullichsen’s approach to modernism is visionary, incorporating an open-minded curiosity toward psychedelia, esotericism, transcendental philosophy, mysticism, and spiritual traditions. His square compositions, or “modules,” serve as starting points for architectural spatial illusions, which Gullichsen conceives as inner temples, archetypal states of the soul, inviting the viewer to step inside.

Basile Fournier Studio is a creative practice focused on graphic design and computer-generated imagery. The studio’s work oscillates between physical and virtual realms, engaging with cultural and corporate brands to craft diverse narratives and visual languages through new technologies. Operating within the fields of fashion, culture, and luxury, each project seeks to evoke a unique resonance by exploring the profound connection between the digital and the human spirit.

Sanna Nykänen is a graphic designer, VJ and a visual artist based in Helsinki. She works within the grey area between art, design and crafting. Her practice includes motion design, visual arts, 3D and publication practice. She is an art director and a graphic designer for  Fantasy Football Magazine.

Sanna describes the work done for Post Bar: “Being inspired by graphic design, that is so layered and detailed that it gives you a headache when you look at it.”

Helmi Nieminen is a visual artist based in Helsinki. Helmi works with drawing, ceramics, metal, paper mache and textile. Through colorful installations her works come together and invite the viewer to step inside her universe. Helmis’ world is inhabited by animals, dragons and other imagined characters. With her works Helmi wants to create space for playfulness and imagining new worlds, all of which are vital in these turbulent times.

Helmi Nieminen describes the work done for Post Bar: “I made this drawing last winter when I was daydreaming about summer…I imagined a warm day spent hanging around with friends and fooling around…and maybe ending up somewhere fun, dancing the night away”

Veera Kortelainen is a Helsinki based freelance graphic designer.

Veera describes the work done for Post Bar: “It has been difficult to catch the spring vibes this year, thanks to the never-ending winter. Let this be both an ode and a final farewell to the gloomy season!”

Iines Kevättuuli (1998) works with art and design in Helsinki. She combines visual art and text to create storytelling works that often include humour as well as deeper feelings and thoughts. Operating with design has brought a strong understanding of material and form to her art practice, recently she has been working especially with ceramics.

Iines describes the work done for Post Bar:
I wanted my work to express feelings similar to the bright, even harsh, spring sunlight, such as a sudden strong feeling of affection. Spring is here and I’m ready to feel it all!

c0r1el resides in his home town Oslo and enjoys drawing and exploring different mediums.

c0r1el describes their work done for Post Bar: “A peaceful multicultural society.”

Antti Uotila is a Helsinki based graphic designer and an occasional print maker. He is one of the founding members of Helsinki based graphic design studio Tsto.

Antti describes the work done for Post bar: “What can I say, it’s a house cat having a good time.”

Gabriel Boicel is a Swedish creative based in Helsinki. With a diverse portfolio of both commercial and underground work. He helped co-found and design the Avant-garde record label WORLD CANVAS in 2020 with Romance Relic. He’s also been involved with creating music videos and providing visual guidance to artist all around the world. His main motive is to create “emotional symbolism” in everything he does.

Gabriel describes the work done for post bar: “The art work captures a pulsating sound wave traveling over a stale piece of metal, liquifying it in the process.” 

Kadri-Ann Kivisild (born in 2000) is an Estonian artist based in Amsterdam. Her practice focuses on art direction, photography and music, drawing inspiration from romance, drama, and peripheral angst. Building upon her experiences as an Estonian working in Western Europe, Kivisild works with issues related to Western rhetoric and misconceptions about the Soviet Union, modern Russia, and the history of Communism.

Kadri-Ann explains the work done for Post Bar: “The work is part of a series called ‘Altars’, that I have been creating over the years. This one is titled ‘Alttari’, dedicated to the unforgettable 4 years of my life when I used to live in Helsinki.”

Jack Sachs is a visual artist / animator from london, living in Berlin.

Jack describes the work done for Post Bar: “The inspiration for this poster comes from a summer spent laying face down in the grass, getting up-close and personal with the small plants and bugs.”

Otso Reitala is a Helsinki-based multimedia artist, and a designer, whose work delves deep into the realms of digitality, exploring the intersections between digital worlds and our tangible reality.
Common themes for his works are immersion and interaction, as well as exploring the gap between the computer generated imagery and something we might perceive as organic.

Alongside installations and video art, he works a lot with electronic music in Helsinki, and internationally. He brings his artistic vision to life through album art, branding, and live visuals or sound design.

Reitala describes the work done for Post Bar: “The concept of the poster was to imagine something completely different from electronic music and clubs in general. So I illustrated a mundane archiving of surreal everyday objects, with all the elements laid out with their info labeled out next to them. I am deeply fascinated by the idea of having an intangible “fake” 3D object be portrayed as something real, and then printing it out as a poster, making the “fake objects” part of a “real object”.

Viivi Prokofjev is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator based in Helsinki & Hanko. While working – if card board has run out and the glue is missing – she creates subtle digital movements. She messes things up.

Viivi describes the work done for Post Bar:  “The Post Bar birthday poster gives everybody a five leaf clover of eternal happiness. And some rhubarb.”

Shanti explains the work done for Post Bar: “I decided to create this piece as recently I’ve been enjoying playing around with different ways in creating sunset illustrations and incorporating these tones and colours. These hues bring me back to summer evenings and brighter days and so I wanted to reflect that in this drawing as we are entering Spring.

I usually draw using RBK colour ways but enjoyed changing it up and using the tones and colour ways of CMYK to create the sunset piece.”

Marina Veziko (b. 1988, Kyiv) is a Helsinki-based graphic designer specializing in branding and art direction. Veziko’s practice moves between cultural and commercial fields, ranging from visual identities, images and packaging to publications and digital applications. Her work leans on nuanced typography and arresting imagery, and fluidly alternates between sleek minimalism and radiant maximalism.

Marina Veziko describes her work done for Post Bar:

“Branding projects typically stretch over months, sometimes years, and tend have quite a lot of preconditions. So working on this poster commission felt like a breath of fresh air! Quick, instinctive, spontaneous – no overthinking or endless iteration rounds. Just stream of thought – February, end of winter, beginning of spring, melting ice, grass peeping underneath, joyful anticipation of springtime. ✿”

Laura Karolina (b 1987) is a self taught visual artist living and working in East Helsinki. She earned her Master’s degree in the University of Helsinki majoring in Art research and Aesthetics. As a way of procrastinating graduating, she rediscovered her love for drawing and painting.

Currently she is heavily inspired by a Japanese 1970s underground movement named  “Heta-Uma”, which could be translated as “bad-but-good”. Furthermore she enjoys everything weird, absurd and surreal + she also likes yoghurt. She feels that the most underrated way to make actual change is happening on many subtle levels within the flow of everyday life.

“For me art isn’t all that serious, but rather a way to retreat from everyday demands.. I believe in kindness and maybe my intention is to further contribute to a friendlier and sillier atmosphere through bright colors, simple shapes and a humanistic vibe.” :o)

Laura Karolina describes her work done for Post Bar:

2022 was quite a rough one, and thus I wanted to create something representing some shy optimism for the upcoming year: A friendly genie in the bottle granting the viewer three wishes.

Maybe today it’s some coffee and cake.

Emma Sarpaniemi is an artist and photographer based in Helsinki. In her practice, Sarpaniemi investigates definitions of femininity through performative and collaborative self-portraits. She creates a playful and tender representation of a woman using herself as the character to behave, look and perform on her terms and rules. The world Sarpaniemi builds is blurred between her identity, reality, and fantasy.

Emma describes the work done for Post Bar: “Self-portrait as a Gym Star” is part of my series “Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower”, which is a performative photography series exploring women’s self-portraiture. The photograph was created together with my dear friend and artist Iiris Riihimäki, who painted the star pants for me. I found the weights from the house we were shooting in Amsterdam and the Gym Star was born. 

London-based designer Aleksi Tammi’s work is focused on typographic experiments. Today, he primarily works in music, film and other culture-related projects. “I study how far and extreme a text, a word, or a single character can be pushed before it loses its function – the lyrical purpose – and becomes just a meaningless shape or a pattern of noise.”

Aleksi describes the work done for Post Bar: “This piece is made by retouching a 3D model of an imaginary greyhound and processed through different encoders into a 171,0000 character text banner. A synthetic reconstruction of a non-existent animal made with no real touch of a human hand.”

Joona Järvinen (he/him, 1991) is an industrial designer with a background in graphic design. He grew up in eastern Finland in the middle of agricultural machines and soundscapes influencing his art and musical preferences today. He hopes that in the future there will be fewer cars and more play.

Joona describes the work done for Post Bar: ”The digital bricolage celebrates culture by combining elements from rural and urban subcultures. Global phenomenons are depicted in small stickers, while individual tags speak out to a wider audience. Symbols of community and self-expression revolve around the wheel that acts as a metaphor for humanity.”

Anastasiia Sviridenko (1996) is a visual artist from Ukraine, currently based in an emergency Art Residence in Finland. Anastasiia works with everyday materials and objects which we commonly perceive through their functional properties. In her art she transformers these objects in order to make our ethical and ecological sensibility more receptive to the pulsations of materiality.

Anastasiia describes the work done for Post Bar: “This duality: the sun shines brightly and high, the hot air exposes human bodies, and we still bring pain and loss to each other. Summer is like a dream, I hope that we wake up from it more human and forgiving. Music is that universal language not only in dreams, but in reality, that can unite, purify and save us all.”

Antoine Paikert aka Esquive Studio (b. 1996) is a French, Helsinki-based, self-taught multidisciplinary creative. Antoine finds inspiration in the seemingly insignificant human emotions. An exposure to the arts at his roots in the French Mediterranean and enriched through travels, living in Germany, then China before settling down in Finland, has gifted him with a unique vision and take on design.

Antoine describes the work done for Post Bar: “I was inspired by this ecstatic feeling of the never-setting sun, like time froze at twilight, and the bliss of the continuous music and chatter. Summer in Finland, specifically in Helsinki, is a very unique and dreamy experience.”

Born in 1993 in Barcelona surrounded by a family of artists, which brought her really close to art from a really young age. They graduated in graphic design in BAU and quickly started working in different design studios, until they founded GGT, a queer and inclusive creative studio. In GGT they have worked with clients like Nike, Sony Music, All Eyes on Hip Hop Festival, Mira Festival and many more, also with a lot of music artists like Nathy Peluso, Sen Senra, Peach and ISAbella. Gina Guasch also co-founded MARICAS, a queer collective, with their partners Eloisa and ISAbella.

Gina describes the work done for Post Bar: “The flyer has a asthetic really characteristic of GGT influenced by naif culture, the underground and fanzines. The illustration represents three emotional states: anxiety (the main character), stress (both characters that are climbing up) and procrastination (the little characters that are dancing), transferred in the artist’s own iconography, where the representations are not literary but abstract and surreal.”

Mariam Falaileh (b. 1990) is a Helsinki-based visual artist who works on ceramics, illustrations and installations. In her works, she explores the interaction between the unconscious mind and extrasensory reality, as well as the relationship between human and nature. Her imagery contains references to mysticism, psychedelia, and the spirit world. She is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

Mariam describes the work done for Post Bar: This is how I see the magical moments from the dancefloor.

Paavo Kärki (b. 2001) works with painting and animation. Through simple shapes, forms and imagery he tries to achieve what he calls “the formal language of visual arts”. Currently he studies theoretical philosophy in the University of Helsinki.

Kärki describes the work done for Post Bar: “My goal here is to bring something colourful and bright to these dark times, while not forgetting the reality we live in.”

Kaisla Laranta is a Barcelona based visual artist from Helsinki. She is currently doing her MA in art therapy and working within residencies and on her own.

Kaisla feels like the northern roots and Mediterranean home gives her an unique point of view to see things from two perspectives, that Inspire and bring up an emotion that she then channels into art. Kaisla´s art is childlike and naive, playing with bright colors and aesthetically funky yet still lives and patterns.

Kaisla describes the work done for Post bar: Inspired by afternoon siesta moment at a winery on a hot day, with the three essential siesta beverages: Coffee, vichy and wine. “ It reminds me of a moment of letting go of all worries, similar to the feeling I often experience on the dance floor.”

Pavel Milyakov (aka Buttechno) is a Moscow based artist and sound producer.
In his works he researches the world of Russian suburbs and collective memories of the post-soviet generation.

In recent years his works were exhibited at Venice Biennale, ART4 gallery & CCA Typography. He performed his sounds at such festivals as Berlin Atonal, Terraforma and many others.

Pavel deescribes the work done for Post Bar “The image depicts a shadowy creature behind a frozen glass”.

Miska Kettu (b.1994) is an upcoming fashion designer from Helsinki, Finland. He is currently working on his MA studies at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture. Kettu points out, that he takes inspiration for his work from different parts of history and culture. His latest collection named “The Peacock’s Tale”, which was part of his BA collection, was influenced by the 1960s Peacock revolution and Halloween. Kettu describes the collection: “In the Sixties, men’s fashion witnessed an extraordinary rebirth that led to lasting social, cultural, and commercial change, what media commentators came to coin The Peacock Revolution. The collection was a deep dive into the swinging sixties in scenery like Alice in the wonderland with a twist of Halloween. Soon after presenting the collection, Kettu landed himself a job in Copenhagen in a local fashion house.

Kettu describes the work done for Post Bar: “This is my ode for the people who keep their head up and keep pushing in the waves of a pandemic.”

Karim Awad is a Finnish/Egyptian Freelance photograpgher from Helsinki, Finland.  Awad operates in the visual field, applying his trade in photography and graphic design. His work mainly focuses on pop culture and people from all walks of life. Awad also does art direction and marketing for local streetwear media Hypend as he is one of the founders of the company.

Karim describes the work done for Post Bar: For this poster I wanted to express the feeling of freedom, as clubs and bars finally got to fully open their doors.

Paola Ivana Suhonen (b. 1974) is a multi-talented Finnish designer, artist, entrepreneur, musician and a film maker. She is especially known for her fashion brand Ivana Helsinki, which she founded in 1998. The visual world of Ivana Helsinki takes its inspiration from Paola’s own strong, poetic visions, roadtrip romantics and is heavily based on her personal life experiences.

Dorian Bajramovic Is a Croatian born Artist living and working between Helsinki , Zagreb and Athens. His project includes multidisciplinary object making and manipulation of existing space. As an Artist Bajramovic values the principles of cooperation and empowerment hence many of his works are often participatory. His work can be found in the homes and collections of various generations and locations.

Dorian describes the work done for Post Bar: I was really happy when asked to do a collaboration with the gang. I did borrow ideas for the poster from my Gallery @bajramovic.unlimited so the circle is complete. Lately I’ve been in and around the Mediterranean a lot, and I’m really into all things funky, since life is pretty crazy down there. I hope some of this Sun radiates through the poster into the streets and homes of the Nordic Capital of the world.

Andre Pozusis (b. 1998) is a Helsinki-based photographer and visual designer. Pozusis’ roots are in Russia and his contrasting works are characterized by combining a strong Slavic design language with subtle Finnish national romantic elements. Pozusis is also known for his intense relationship to the colour red and its symbolism.

Felix Bardy (b. 1998) is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. He mainly works in the fields of painting and photography, currently combining both in form of Slow Prints. ”I turn images into almost abstract bitmaps, then project them onto paper. From the projection I paint the image with oil paint from top to bottom, like a printer.

Bardy currently studies in Art School MAA. His work has been exhibited in Generation 2017 -exhibitions in Amos Anderson and Jyväskylä art museums, Make Your Mark Gallery and Serving the People’s online exhibitions.

Felix explains the work done for Post Bar: “I painted an image of balloons I took at a friends birthday party. While working on it I was pondering the different emotions a child can feel about a balloon – joy of getting it, the sadness when it escapes away with the wind or the slow alienation when the helium wears out. Balloons are also the ultimate symbol for parties.”

Irene Suosalo (b 1995) is a video artist working with experimental animation, installations and illustrations based on an underlying interest for infraction and broken surfaces. Suosalo combines a multitude of methods both old and new in the creation of her work.

Irene Suosalo describes the work done for Post Bar: “For the 3th birthday of Post Bar I wanted to celebrate the colors and lights of the club dancefloor. Birthday extravaganza with a little bit of bling!”

Viiksimaisteri (b 1991) is a coder, designer and artist specialising in visual work. He’s a hypnotic and hyperactive deus ex machina, a naïve digitalist baptised in information technology. Viiksimaisteri’s work delves into media theory and interface aesthetics from a posthumanist aspect.

Viiksimaisteri describes the work done for Post Bar: ”The poster depicts a celebration of unity made in Unity; a DITLO someone with special conditions – you decide what type. The virtual convention here is an embodiment of the post-bar.”

Hayley Lê (b.1996) is a self-taught visual artist with keen interest in photography and storytelling in the form of filmmaking. Lê’s work mainly focuses around people, lifestyle, the mundane life, artists and advertising.

Hayley describes the work done for Post Bar: ”Shot on 6×7, this image was created during a walk with my friend in Vuosaari. When I saw the dark blue benches and the bright orange color of my knit, I knew I had to marry those two together.”

Sofia Okkonen is a Helsinki-based visual artist and photographer who works with staged photography and various types of creative work. In the spring of 2017, Okkonen was one of the ten finalists in the internationally renowned Hyères Photography Competition with her series of works on the performativity of gender, titled Rose. The series has been exhibited in the Project Space of the Finnish Museum of Photography as a solo exhibition, among other places. Currently Okkonen is working with a solo exhibition and project on the existence of insect pollinators and babies called Honey, Please, which is on display at Kunsthalle Turku.

Sofia describes the work done for Post Bar: “The picture displayed on the poster is part of the Honey, Please series and is inspired by thoughts around the decline in insect populations, future threats and experiences of loving co-existence.”

Lars is a graphic designer based in Helsinki. His practice focuses on creating meaningful design – whether the client is looking for something timeless and minimal or a total extravaganza. Besides design he enjoys listening to 80’s ballads and watching TV quizzes.

Lars describes the work done for Post Bar: “Baby pink is Lars’s spirit color™ and the poster is inspired by it.”

Pyry Pelkonen is a cinematographer based in Helsinki. He’s known for his passion for photographic film emulsions and processes. Photography and film developing started as a space for freedom besides cinematography to create such images from the ground up.

Pyry Describes the work done for Post Bar: This magical frame is taken after a humid day at MacRitchie reservoir in Singapore on a 6 by 9 colour negative.

Eetu Sihvonen is a Helsinki-based visual artist. They use 3D modelling and animation as well as more traditional materials including plaster, wood and metal. Sculptures and installations using these methods draw from the aestheticised barricades of western city culture and traditional handwork methods and mental images associated with them.

They describe the work done for Post Bar: “The darkest days of the year and the gravity defying and magical arches of medieval castles felt meaningful while working on the picture.”

Eeli’s paintings are often a series of aesthetically resistant imagery in the sense of post-presentationalism, the image suggests an aesthetic familiarity to the artists personal adaption of contemporary stillness, but inverting it as an minor détournement of it’s own tools. The painting doesn’t become what it presents, since what it presents is not what is aesthetically perceived in the painting. The point of it being the cringe sweet spot, when one can experience the weird admiration for modernism, while realising the forced emptiness in the image.
Eeli lives and works in Helsinki.

As a basis for the commissioned Post bar poster Eeli choose to depict the wait of a wave by a surfer, a timely fitting subject.

Oona Oikkonen is a photographer and art director working between Antwerp and Helsinki.

Her work is thoughtful and sometimes psychological. She has a keen eye for colours and the main ingredients in her work are the power of individuality, nature, human beings from all spheres and their behaviour. Photographed in a colourful, sensual and cinematic way. She embraces her life in the same exact way.

Oona describes her work done for Post Bar:
“I broke a window to breathe better and this is what I saw; 2020 mindscape.”

Konsta Ojala is a Helsinki-based visual artist who works with drawings, paintings and sculptures. Ojala was involved in founding the SIC gallery and Kalasatama Seripaja, and he publishes and works as the editor for Adios art publishing and Adults magazine.

Konsta describes the work done for Post Bar: The poster combines Godzilla, Turtles and the European union with a beach view.

As much as you could believe that Antti Kalevi’s drawings are made from scraps of fluorescent and primary coloured paper, they’re actually all created digitally. Loose, expressive and chock-full of happy fruits, animals, humans and shapes with eyes, Antti’s work is a sunshine by way of a graphic tablet. “I like to use humour in my pictures every now and then, but I also try to make beautiful images,” Antti says. “If you look my work from far away it’s often very simple, but close up is full of small details.” Currently based in Helsinki, an Aalto graduate Antti has spent some time working in Reykjavik, Kyoto, Tokyo and Veneto and dreams of taking his studio on the road to somewhere warm.

Antti describes the work done for Post Bar: “The august poster was inspired by summer holidays: sleeping late, listening to good music, watching bees and flowers.”

Adele Hyry is a Helsinki-based visual artist and photographer.
She materially experiments with her growing auto-archive of images, voice memos, footage, and notes on the flux of living.

Animal energy, gloominess, and fun intertwine in her timely practice where the body is present.

Adele describes the work done for Post Bar: Blending into the fleshy orange room.

Linn Henrichson is a Helsinki-born Copenhagen-based visual artist and graphic designer who works in a range of different media – from printed matter to installation, painting and sculpture. In her work she likes to explore the encounter between analogue craft and technology. She recently graduated with an MFA in visual communication at Konstfack in Stockholm.

Linn describes the work done for post bar: Waiting for an early summer thunderstorm.

Twin flame at Paintings, co-founder of The Community Paris & DJ under alias Joshi.

Joshi describes the work done for Post Bar: It does not represent anything specific. What you see is what you see.

Yu Chuan has been living in Helsinki the past four years. His main job is studying but he also DJs at local clubs. The winter here gives him lots of time to watch cartoons and dig for records in his bed.

Yu describes the work done for Post Bar: ‘’I’m a green snot, strolling through blue winter while seeking for warmth. ‘’

Santeri Mortti Valtanen (b.1993) loves you. He also loves carving wood and working with textiles. This Helsinki based designer and artist draws his inspiration from entertaining details of life; nature, internet, movies, sports. By his work, he aims to translate the joy of crafting into the joy of the viewer. He is currently completing his master studies in Aalto Arts.

Santeri describes the work done for Post Bar: ”I wanted to use my favorite illustrating techniques, ink and crayons, to create a mellow atmosphere. And I also felt like eating Kalakukko”.

Maisa Immonen is a Helsinki-based 3D-artist and visualist, who also creates Instagram filters. In her art she creates characters and scenarios, through which she explores emotions and identities. Her interests include the thematics of shame and self-assurance and how these are associated with the representation of self and performativeness. Maisa draws inspiration from vibrant colors and organic textures. She uses 3D-technology to illustrate the shapes and forms that are created by the uncontrollable force of nature.

Maisa describes the work done for Post Bar: “I love the festive atmosphere of December and the gemstone colors. The year is coming to an end and it’s time to welcome the new year. We’ll see what’s waiting behind the curtain…”

Maria Korkeila is a Finnish designer and DJ, currently based in Paris. Korkeila’s field of expression is fluid: flowing in, out and in between fashion, music and photography, she proposes a vision that stretches beyond the binary. Following the culture and traditions of punk, deconstruction and DIY, rich textures and hand-worked textiles meet an abundance of color in a coalescence of deviance and sensuality.

Maria describes the work done for Post Bar: Trajectories of dancing bodies on a dimly lit dancefloor. I love people watching at clubs. I keep a mental archive of friend’s go-to dance moves. Seeing a familiar moves silhouetted in front of me on the dancefloor makes me feel at home.

Leo Karhunen drifted into graphic design in the late 90’s. One party flyer led to another, and he found he can make a living in design. Since then Leo has created concepts and campaigns, art directed a magazine, designed a load of identities, started a record company, toured with M.I.A., hosted two weekly radio shows and designed a hundred t-shirt graphics. Today he runs his own company Double Happiness, with an emphasis on cultural clients.

Leo describes the work done for Post Bar: Well, it’s pretty self-explanatory : )

Aliina Kauranne is a graphic designer and 3d-artist based in Helsinki, specialised in pamper and zen. She is freshly graduated from Aalto University where she studied visual communication design and found her love for 3d-graphics.

Aliina describes the work done for Post Bar: My favourite time of the year is fall, because for me it is the season of boots. This poster illustrates a collection of pamper boots, too dreamy to be true.

Unni Leino is a graphic designer based in Helsinki. She most often finds her inspiration from sarcastic sentences and word plays.
Unni’s visual language springs from retro logos, cartoons, futuristic matter and sports.
In her spare time she enjoys running and telling dad jokes. Sometimes dad laughs.

Unni describes the work done for Post bar:
”Playfulness is something I always thrive for in my work. In this poster I brought to life the essence of this summer, blue skies and popsicles. Featuring the flavours raspberry, orange, blueberry, salty liquorice, lemon, pear and cola. Mm… Tasty!”

Fredrik Karell is turning 26 in July and it sure is his favorite month. He is a hard-working dreamer and soon to be a graduate from the Design Institute of Lahti. Fredrik is an entrepreneur in the skateboard industry and working as a freelance graphic designer for a couple of companies. He grew up in the archipelago and during free time he prefers to draw, read books and do outdoor activities.

Fredrik describes the work done for Post Bar: “In my latest work I have experimented with the use of wax pastels.In this piece I wanted to create a feeling of timelessness. A space that felt the same in the past as it will in the future, a place to unwind and give room for honesty in forms of thoughts and discussions.”

Tuukka Tammisaari is a painter and a friend of dogs based in Vallila Helsinki.

Tuukka describes the work done for Post Bar: I did a painting with flowers, fruits, berries and a wonky flute.

That’s it.

Paintings is rat race after hours.

Forget what you think you should be doing
Expect nothing
Do it together
Learn
Unlearn
No hugging, no learning

Paintings describes the work done for Post Bar: Lounge at the beach, July 2018. Picture from Paintings archive, chosen to prove a point to self that something done in the past can be used now. A lesson to overachieving self that you don’t need to start from scratch.

Niklas Hallman is a 25 year-old-artist and Helsinki city boy who recently moved back to Finland after studying 4 years in the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He graduated from the fine art department and has mainly worked in the field of painting and constructive collages since then. His producer alias ’Leppis’ also brings out a performative act with a wide spectrum of interests, such as Live Sets and performances. Niklas also has a rather active background in the Finnish/European skate scene and as a young violinist in the conservatory of Helsinki.

Niklas describes the work done for Post Bar: “One of my main cores and sparkles for my way of working is the conscious usage of improvisation. How to leave space for the surprize and yet still be in control. This also relates to my mindset of clubbing. How to avoid the expectations for sensations and find a pure way of being in this environment. The balance of planning and compromises in combination with an ideology of ”It is what it is and how to make the best out of it”. The moment when you find yourself in the dancefloor surrounded by a packed crowd and still find the way to trance in nothingness is what I was relating to while working with this piece.”

Eevi Kolinen is a graphic designer from Helsinki and a nearly graduate of Design Institute of Lahti. While she lived in Berlin she found her passion for graphic art and has been enthusiastic about it ever since. The poster for Post Bar is a part of her ongoing Keho -series.
Kindness is the base of Eevi’s life and she hopes to spread it through her artwork and other projects. She’s a part of Helsinki based MYÖS collective that organises events with the focus on creating a safer places for everyone. The collective wants to increase respectful behaviour, inclusivity and diversity in the local party scene.

Eevi describes the work done for Post Bar: I wanted to capture an ideal moment at a club, where a young woman is dancing carelessly, enjoying herself and forgetting the surroundings without being disturbed.

SJ Hockett is an artist and designer working across various media including creative/art direction, printed matter, illustration, motion graphics and installation as well as publishing projects through the Wonder Press moniker.

SJ describes the work done for Post Bar: “The poster imagery is inspired by my most recent body of work/work in progress entitled ‘Eternal Life Motorsports’. The works visually explore concepts of endless repetition and eternity; these themes are easily translated to (something) within electronic/club music. The Coyote infinitely repeats its chase with Roadrunner, the barbed wire links are reiterations with no decipherable beginning, or end.”

Teemu Keisteri (1985, Espoo) is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki. He has been getting a lot of attention with his Ukkeli character which he uses for paintings, drawings and unique clothing. Keisteri gets his inspiration from cultural phenomena and Finnish lifestyle and uses often himself as the subject of his art. Besides Ukkeli, Keisteri makes video art, art and dance performances, his own music in the band PEU and DJ shows under the name Windows95Man. Keisteri’s videos have won popularity with the internet and social media audiences. Keisteri also has his own art gallery Kalleria in Kallio, Helsinki.

Teemu describes the work done for Post Bar: ”I’m really a big fan of 90s/80s rave/house/italodisco record label logos and I wanted to use this Nervous record label logo as an inspiration to my Post Bar poster.

I wanted to do something that is fun, easygoing and what makes people happy, and I’m really happy how it went.”

Landys Roimola, (born 1992, Bogota) is a sculptor, who is concerned about the growing problem with waste and recycling. Her sculptures are at the same time relatable, strange and beautiful – like misunderstood creatures that have been pulled from another universe. Dominated by the material, and with some unexpected results along the way, the waste gets a new life in Roimola’s hands. The way she used trash as a material grasps the ruthless reality of our time. Reusing and organizing of spurned materials brings out a possibility of hope.

Landys describes the work done for Post Bar: “Working with actual materials is very different from working with 2D surface but I wanted to reach the same feeling of uncomfortableness with this graphic as with my sculptures. The disturbing creature in the artwork got a human kind form and it is watching your back as well as its own.”

Toni Halonen is a visual artist currently based in Helsinki. His works play with the moment when an representational image starts to break up in to an abstract picture plane. He has been exhibited and published in various countries internationally and currently continues his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

Toni describes the work done for Post Bar: “Its interesting that at least for me an abstract image tends to feel like an actual portrait when it is in the portrait format. Thats why I guess I tend to work more in the landscape size. For this work I tried to step out of my ways, embrace this and accept the feeling of an abstract portrait. In a way I guess we could call it a post portrait…”

In his work, Risto’s sympathies lie somewhere in between language, symbols and abstract shapes. Based mostly in The Hague, Netherlands he studies graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art, KABK. Some day he will finish a typeface.

Risto describes the work done for Post Bar: “I was thinking how it feels like to be in the mix. To witness two tracks merging together one after another.”

Post Bar features monthly artists on the poster and event graphics.

Irene Suosalo is a Helsinki based visual artist with a background in photography and moving image. In her work she uses a scanner with various different materials from paper to everyday objects to create images that lie somewhere between figurative and abstract. In addition to still imagery she recently started working as a video jockey for nightclubs and festivals by bringing the scanner works to life. She is also interested in playing with light by creating light installations.

Irene describes the work done for Post Bar: “I chose the colors and hand movement but after that the process was all trial and error. Eventually the images came to be something modern but retro and it felt right.”

Post Bar features monthly artists on the poster and event graphics.

Matti Vesanen is an animator and director from Helsinki. He likes to combine 3D rendered imagery with screenprinting in his illustrations. By day he runs a studio called VELI.fx which concentrates on art direction and animation. By night he does visuals and installations in venues spanning from the underground to large festivals. He always tries to find time for personal animation and illustration projects to keep things buzzing.
“My idea was to stop the movement of a sunny dancer for a second to capture it in multiple angles.” -Matti

Braulio Amado is a portuguese designer and illustrator living in New York City. He previously worked at Pentagram, Bloomberg Businessweek and Wieden Kennedy. He now runs his own studio, BAD Studio, and works for clients such as Nike, Frank Ocean, New York Times, Wired Magazine, Washed Out, Roisin Murphy and more.

“My idea was to draw a long, weird and abstract heat-wave to celebrate the beginning of the warm and sunny days of Summer.” – Braulio

Post Bar features monthly artists on the poster and event graphics.