Marian Bantjes is a designer, typographer, writer and illustrator. On Bantjes' website her work is described as 'crossing boundaries of time, style and technology. She is known for her detailed and lovingly precise vector art, her obsessive hand work, her patterning and ornament. Marian’s work has an underlying structure and formality that frames its organic, fluid nature.'
One thing which I have started to think about recently, due to the lecture series' and also the industry guest lectures, is women in the design industry and how their work and contributions in the industry aren't usually as well known as their male counterparts, or aren't as well documented/represented, even though there are lots of women illustrators/ designers/ typographers creating impressive works. For instance Marian Bantjes, whose work although just as impressive as Stefan Sagmeister's, for example, doesn't seem to be half as celebrated which I think is disappointing.
These three pieces of work show Bantjes' distinctive typographic style and demonstrate both 2d and 3d typography works. I resonate with Marian Bantjes highly detailed hand-work and visual ornamentation as something that I often try to incorporate in my own work.