I always tend to venture beyond the local borders when it comes to searching for inspiration, looking to what is big in Japan, or currently rising out of Europe. So it was a pleasant surprise to find myself spending a good chunk of my afternoon pouring over the work of local designer Marian Bantjes. With a whimsical and organic style that suggests that she spends more time with a pen and paper than in front of a computer screen, Marian has been described by Stefan Sagmeister as “one of the most innovative typographers working today” and the legendary typographer Doyald Young told me that he has “only the greatest admiration for her work”.
You can read more about Marian Bantjes on Design Boom and be sure to check out her work on the cover and 8 page spread of the July/August edition of Print Magazine.
Posted by Kevin Broome
Tags: Design
