Live from San Francisco: Design Matters with Marian Bantjes

Adobe and AIGA San Francisco are presenting a very special series—Design Matters Live: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Design. Joining me Thursday, September 13th is my dear friend Marian Bantjes.

Marian Bantjes is a self-described [Typo]Graphic Artist. After working as a book typesetter for ten years and a designer for nine, she gave everything up in 2003 to pursue her artistic and typographic obsessions. Her work is complex, structured, sometimes funny and always obsessive. Despite living and working from a small island near Vancouver, Canada, in the past two years she has worked with Pentagram, Stefan Sagmeister, Rick Valicenti, Houghton-Mifflin, Young & Rubicam, Details, InStyle, WIRED, The New York Times, SEED, and Martha Stewart Living ; she has appeared in Eye, STEP, Print (“the vivid word” cover from July/Aug ’06) and Communication Arts; and has had her work chosen for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She has been an author on the design weblog Speak Up since 2004, where she writes posts which vary from quirky musings to profane rants. Marian has lectured on her work and given workshops at various colleges, including CalArts, MICA (Baltimore), ArtCenter (Pasadena), Central St. Martin’s (London) and Reading University (UK). The verdict is not yet in, but she may be living proof of what happens when you follow the love instead of the money. Her work can be viewed here (the art for this graphic) or at www.bantjes.com.

For more information about the series you can go to www.designmatterslive.com