Marian Bantjes is a Canadian typographer, artist, writer and designer born in 1963.
She began working in visual communication in 1983 as a typesetter for books. In the early 90's she started to become well known as a graphic designer and from the start of the 21st century to today, she is world-famous for her work, having been published several times in the French design magazine, étapes, the Brazilian magazine, Tupografia, Eye Magazine, Creative Review and Fontoshop's Font 004. Her clients include, Stagmeister, Pentagram, The Guardian, The New York Times and Bruce Mau Design. The graphic designer, Stefan Stagmeister even said that he believed Bantjes to be one of the most innovative graphic artists of our time. Her style is extremely ornamental and she claims to illustrate the spiritual side of words through the way she represents them. Marian's work is very personal and some think that she has broken the mould a bit by submitting such personal work to magazines and competitions. She, however, believes that she is just sharing her personal relationship with type with the world and thinks of it as her duty.
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