Studio Notes

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. Bu

Many vintage-inspired illustrations today imitate the visual style of earlier decades — muted colours, simplified forms, nostalgic motifs. What interests me more is the atmosphere that older illustrations carried almost without trying. Vintage-inspired illustration of a quiet countryside scene. In Scandinavian book illustration and magazine drawings from the mid-20th century , everyday scenes were often drawn with quiet precision: a woman standing by a garden fence, a path th