Bantjes at Emily Carr University

Emily Carr University’s Speaker Series is featuring Marian Bantjes tomorrow evening at 7 pm. Here’s the official writeup:

Marian Bantjes has been variously described as a typographer, designer,
artist and writer. Working from her base on a small island off the west
coast of Canada, her personal, obsessive and sometimes strange graphic
work has brought her international recognition. Following her interests
in complexity and structure, Marian is known for her custom typography,
detailed and lovingly precise vector art, her obsessive hand work, her
patterning and ornament. Her work has been published in books and
magazines around the world, and is included in the permanent collection
of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian) in New York.
She has lectured on her work throughout the United States and in many
other countries, including in South Africa, Argentina, Norway, France,
and New Zealand, among others, and in 2010, she spoke at the renowned
TED Conference in Long Beach, California. In 2008, she was accepted as a member of the prestigious international design organization, Alliance
Graphique Internationale (AGI). Her book, “I Wonder” is due out in the
fall of 2010, published by Thames & Hudson.

A great opportunity to see the artist’s process for making of her just-published book.

Marian Bantjes I Wonder
7:00 pm, Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Emily Carr Lecture Theatre (SB Room 301)

Admittance is free.