I didn’t grow up thinking about poster art. But it was there in the background — the kind of design you only notice later, once you start paying attention to space, shape, and restraint. My great-granduncle, Aage Rasmussen , designed travel posters for DSB (Danish national rail company) in the mid-twentieth century. Graphic compositions with very little excess: a train, a platform, a few figures, and large areas of colour. I didn’t study those images consciously as a child. B
