Marian bantjes

In the year that I started the Valentines, I also started sending out Halloween greetings as well. While the Valentines have lasted, I dropped the Halloween thing after the 3rd year. This was the first, and I still like it. 2005

Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to do this custom lettering for one of his famous Yale Architecture Lecture posters (I’m only sorry to be #41, and not in his book of the first 40). Then he and Michelle Leong did a beautiful job of the rest. This poster is in the permananet collection of the Cooper... View Article

For the TypeCon conference in Seattle 2007, I created a crazy identity on the theme of “letterspace”. There was a small (11×17) version of this poster, which was printed letterpress at the School of Visual Concepts on the yummy, shiny Midnight Blue, Shine paper from Reich Papers; this is the large (20×31) version silkscreened by Design Commission on... View Article

While the first 2 years of the valentines had the aspects of a promotional piece, with my name and contact info printed on them, the 2007 hand-drawn valentines set a precedent for being entirely personal. For my 2008 valentines I wanted to continue that aspect of the personal, without the labour intensity of drawing 150 hearts. So... View Article

The excellent UK illustration magazine Varoom asked me to do a regular gig for them. Starting in November 2010, in each issue (only 3 per year, sadly) I create something on the issue theme, whatever that might be. This first one was on “relationships”. 2010

Graphic Design, Typography, Adobe Illustrator

For Wired‘s article on the new atheists: Richard Dawkins et. al. I’m not sure how obvious of an atheist I am, but this wasn’t the first time I’d been approached to illustrate things of a decidedly non-religious nature … and I always wonder how do they know? It’s ornamented, but rational. Old, but new. Still... View Article

Marian Bantjes exposes the long process that led to the cover of her new monograph, I Wonder.

Richard Turley is maybe my favourite Art Director. Another great—if I do say so myself—cover for The Guardian’s G2. It is a complex pattern designed to make letterforms. 2007

Feeling the need for a design escape more than ever? Us too. For that reason, as our dev team works on the new PRINT website behind the scenes, we’ve decided to start releasing some of our brand-new columns and recurring features early—such as this visual column by Marian Bantjes. Watch this space for more. From Bantjes: “This piece is called Exodus, and it depicts all the billionaires leaving the dying Earth in their rockets, where they perish in space or on dead moons and p