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About

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Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator working internationally from her base on a small island off the... View Article

Bernice

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The good folks at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum asked me to design an ornament font for their... View Article

Walrus Magazine

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Brian Morgan, Art Director of the Canadian magazine The Walrus, asked me to create illustrations for a story about a... View Article

Valentines 2016

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This year I combined old photographs from the 50s–70s with snippets of romance novels from the same era, et. viola!... View Article

TV Addict

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When I was a teenager in the 1970s I watched lot of TV. A lot. I once counted that I... View Article

Valentines 2015

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I’ve always been quite interested in the pet names that people call each other, so I decided to collect as... View Article

Dr. Strangelove

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These are 2 designs for BFI Film Classics’ reissue of Dr. Strangelove. I preferred the crazier one on the right,... View Article

Pretty Pictures

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Marian Bantjes Pretty Pictures with a Foreword by Rick Poynor 272 pages Hard cover 26 cm × 35cm (approx. 10.25 ×... View Article

I Wonder

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I Wonder by Marian Bantjes 208 pages Hard cover 15.5 cm × 24cm (approx. 6 × 9½ inches) Printed in... View Article

test

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Heading One I wonder about the people who wrote these letters. If they’re still alive, do they still care about... View Article

Valentines 2014

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I came into possession of a box of fan mail to Robert Wagner sent in 1957. It contained envelopes from... View Article

MOO Cards

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I was invited by the lovely Pamela Williams to create a set of MOO cards on their triple-thick stock, as... View Article

Sorrow

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This was made in a marathon 7 hours, on-site at the Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) in June 2013, as an installation... View Article

Eames Tiki Chair

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This is an interesting project. And an odd one. I, along with 5 other designers/studios was approached by Adobe to... View Article

Video: Credits

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When the good folks at Lynda.com asked to do a documentary on me, that was fun enough, but when they... View Article

Varoom: Next

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The theme for this issue of Varoom magazine was “Next”, which is one of my least favourite subjects these days,... View Article

So

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This illustration was made to accompany an article in The New York Times about the word “So”. Picking up from... View Article

We’re Sorry

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My good friend Brian Morgan called in a favour to get me to do this cover for The Walrus. I... View Article

Empathy Penny

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Todd Falkowsky of Motherbrand in Toronto approached me to design a … a … well, see, there’s this machine that... View Article

Valentines 2009

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My 2009 valentines were a bit of a departure in a number of ways. They were more “conceptual” than previous... View Article

Saks Snowflakes

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Saks Fifth Avenue commissioned me to draw 25 snowflakes for their 2008 Christmas season. (I delivered a few extras.) Working... View Article

Publikum Calendar

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OK, there’s this Serbian calendar, called the Publikum Calendar, produced by George Mill & Nada Ray, which has become completely... View Article

Sustainability

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William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse hired me to create one of a series of posters for the paper... View Article

G2: Surrealism

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This was originally done for a 2-page spread in The Guardian’s features section (G2), but was moved to the cover.... View Article

Vancouver Review

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Once upon a time, from 2004–2006, I was the designer for Vancouver’s critical arts and culture magazine, Vancouver Review. Mark... View Article