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Leave your thoughtsMarian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the... View Article
Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the... View Article
This is a long and complex story. One of the many projects sponsored by the Canadian government for Canada’s 150th... View Article
The good folks at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum asked me to design an ornament font for their... View Article
Of late, I have become averse to using the computer—sitting at it, anyway—and this has been cutting into the amount... View Article
Brian Morgan, Art Director of the Canadian magazine The Walrus, asked me to create illustrations for a story about a... View Article
This year I combined old photographs from the 50s–70s with snippets of romance novels from the same era, et. viola!... View Article
Art Director Matt Dorfman presented me with a challenge: to create a cover that says “The Year in Poetry” and... View Article
Each year, Print Magazine publishes the winners of their Regional Design Awards. I was asked to create the cover, a... View Article
Unlikeable characters Rescue Me was a perfect example: after watching more than a season (on the strong recommendation of a... View Article
Why do The Wire, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Friday Night Lights and The Slap make my top list for... View Article
When I was a teenager in the 1970s I watched lot of TV. A lot. I once counted that I... View Article
My dog Moser loves getting a new stuffed toy … so he can rip its brains out! He’s not an... View Article
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting around with friends discussing patents, as one does, and my friend Ken... View Article
When Marcel Wanders asked me to be one of the Signature Designers for Moooi‘s new line of carpets, I had only a couple... View Article
There is a Facebook page called Copy Anti-Copy, which is one of my current internet favourites. I have no idea who... View Article
Sometime in early- to mid-2015, I got a message from the artist Natalie Frank, who wanted me to design her... View Article
I never used to play computer games or video games of any kind until I got an iPad. Since then... View Article
What is judging an awards show like? Depending on the show, it is usually exhausting. Most national and international shows... View Article
To request new work email me, or you can phone me at +1 604.947.9107 (this is a land line, please... View Article
I’ve always been quite interested in the pet names that people call each other, so I decided to collect as... View Article
From July 2 to October 5, 2014, there was an exhibit of my work at mudac in Lausanne, Switzerland. When... View Article
These are 2 designs for BFI Film Classics’ reissue of Dr. Strangelove. I preferred the crazier one on the right,... View Article
Marian Bantjes Pretty Pictures with a Foreword by Rick Poynor 272 pages Hard cover 26 cm × 35cm (approx. 10.25 ×... View Article
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes 208 pages Hard cover 15.5 cm × 24cm (approx. 6 × 9½ inches) Printed in... View Article
Photo: Kristine Arth I’ll answer the second question first: There are a few reasons why I don’t enter design... View Article
Yes. A blog. I really had to think long and hard about this. On the one hand, the blog is... View Article
Why have I abandoned my former, quirky website for a standard generic one? Because the web is not my... View Article
Heading One I wonder about the people who wrote these letters. If they’re still alive, do they still care about... View Article
This has to be one of my favourite pieces of all time. I had the idea to make something with... View Article
Exhibitions & Collections March 2015 Several pieces included in the exhibit “Framing Fraktur” at the Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA.... View Article
Mostly I speak about my own work. Sometimes I rant about ideas related to my work. Conferences and organizations AIGA... View Article
How would you describe your work to someone who is not familiar with it? This is really hard, and I... View Article
Dear Students, Over the past few years I have talked about you a lot to my fellow designy-friends. We encourage... View Article
I came into possession of a box of fan mail to Robert Wagner sent in 1957. It contained envelopes from... View Article
I was invited by the lovely Pamela Williams to create a set of MOO cards on their triple-thick stock, as... View Article
This was made in a marathon 7 hours, on-site at the Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) in June 2013, as an installation... View Article
This is an interesting project. And an odd one. I, along with 5 other designers/studios was approached by Adobe to... View Article
Because I travel a lot, I decided to use old postcards for my Valentines in 2012. I sent about 480,... View Article
When the good folks at Lynda.com asked to do a documentary on me, that was fun enough, but when they... View Article
The theme for this issue of Varoom magazine was “Next”, which is one of my least favourite subjects these days,... View Article
This illustration was made to accompany an article in The New York Times about the word “So”. Picking up from... View Article
I’m a big fan of the band The National, so when I got a call to do a gig poster... View Article
In 2010 I had the idea to make my valentines from old Christmas cards. I solicited my friends to send... View Article
My good friend Brian Morgan called in a favour to get me to do this cover for The Walrus. I... View Article
Todd Falkowsky of Motherbrand in Toronto approached me to design a … a … well, see, there’s this machine that... View Article
My 2009 valentines were a bit of a departure in a number of ways. They were more “conceptual” than previous... View Article
Saks Fifth Avenue commissioned me to draw 25 snowflakes for their 2008 Christmas season. (I delivered a few extras.) Working... View Article
OK, there’s this Serbian calendar, called the Publikum Calendar, produced by George Mill & Nada Ray, which has become completely... View Article
William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse hired me to create one of a series of posters for the paper... View Article
This was originally done for a 2-page spread in The Guardian’s features section (G2), but was moved to the cover.... View Article
I was asked to do the cover for the US design magazine, Print, as well as given [almost] free reign over... View Article
It’s a humble little thing, but really rather diabolical. Fiendishly designed to print on both sides of very clear paper... View Article
Once upon a time, from 2004–2006, I was the designer for Vancouver’s critical arts and culture magazine, Vancouver Review. Mark... View Article