The Man Who
In September 2018, the V&A Museum exhibited the musician and innovator Beatie Wolfe’s experiential work as a part of the... View Article
In September 2018, the V&A Museum exhibited the musician and innovator Beatie Wolfe’s experiential work as a part of the... View Article
I was invited by Lucy Biggs in the UK to take part in her “Letterspace” project, along with 25 other... View Article
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes This is the paperback edition of I Wonder, published in 2018 with an additional chapter,... View Article
Another little book for New Directions. The cover type is custom. 2018
I’ve been doing some book design (cover and inside) for the publisher New Directions lately. This is very old school... View Article
My 2018 Valentines were made by stamping a foil design (in various foil colours) over vintage Harlequin Romance novel covers... View Article
Mark Foster Gage is an architect with a strong style, similar to my earlier work, though he uses a lot... View Article
I was asked by John Maeda to take part in a project with WordPress that would help kids learn to... View Article
Each year, Alliance Graphique International (AGI) proposes a “special project” for its members to contribute to. This year it is... View Article
Designer Mirco Ilic asked me to contribute to his Tolerance Poster exhibit. It seemed to me tolerance is the least... View Article
This is a long and complex story. One of the many projects sponsored by the Canadian government for Canada’s 150th... View Article
I came so close to not doing the valentines this year. It is a pain in the ass, and a... View Article
I made this around the time of the 1,000,000 Women’s March in Washington after the 2016 US election. This symbol... View Article
I’ve been doing some work for the elite stationers, Armorial Paris. My first project with them was some Holiday cards,... View Article
I’ve been doing some work for the elite stationers, Armorial Paris. My first project with them was some Holiday cards,... View Article
I’ve been doing some work for the elite stationers, Armorial Paris. My first project with them was some Holiday cards,... View Article
The good folks at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum asked me to design an ornament font for their... View Article
For this edition of Varoom Magazine, the theme was “Wellbeing”. It seemed to me that tightly woven ribbons would suit... View Article
I designed the cover and interior for this New Directions pocket edition of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. I love... View Article
I designed this cover and interior for a small book of poems published by New Dimensions. 2016 Save
Brian Morgan, Art Director of the Canadian magazine The Walrus, asked me to create illustrations for a story about a... View Article
This year I combined old photographs from the 50s–70s with snippets of romance novels from the same era, et. viola!... View Article
Pen, inks, and metallic tape. 2016
Francis Timony hired me to do the catalogue cover for his client A La Vieille Russie (ALVR), dealers in very... View Article
Art Director Matt Dorfman presented me with a challenge: to create a cover that says “The Year in Poetry” and... View Article
Each year, Print Magazine publishes the winners of their Regional Design Awards. I was asked to create the cover, a... View Article
The theme for this issue of Varoom was Visionaries. I had just bought a box of fancy tape and I... View Article
Each year, Alliance Graphique International (AGI) proposes a “special project” for its members to contribute to. This year it is... View Article
This has got to be one of my favourite patterns to date. Made from plasticine for Varoom Magazine’s issue on... View Article
The story of this project is unusual but, in brief, I was hired by an agency called DARE (now called... View Article
When Marcel Wanders asked me to be one of the Signature Designers for Moooi‘s new line of carpets, I had only a couple... View Article
When Marcel Wanders asked me to be one of the Signature Designers for Moooi‘s new line of carpets, I had only a couple... View Article
A little while ago Marcel Wanders asked me to be one of the Signature Designers for Moooi‘s new line of carpets. They... View Article
Sometime in early- to mid-2015, I got a message from the artist Natalie Frank, who wanted me to design her... View Article
Print Magazine is 75, and they asked several designers to create the word “print” for the anniversary issue. This is... View Article
I had this idea that fashion creates a distorted self image; that we see ourselves through the lens of fashion,... View Article
Ken Cato at AGIdeas requested a “25” from myself and 24 other designers to commemorate 25 years of the AGIdeas... View Article
I’ve always been quite interested in the pet names that people call each other, so I decided to collect as... View Article
Judith Tannenbaum asked me to design an identity for the upcoming exhibit “Framing Fraktur” at The Free Library of Philadelphia.... View Article
This was a bit of a last-minute holiday card for Criterion. They were tired of sending out a big, silver... View Article
For this cover for Ander Monson’s Letter to a Future Lover, (for Graywolf Press) I typeset a page from the... View Article
For the “Style” issue of Varoom, I decided to break style and go with a set of black and white... View Article
From July 2 to October 5, 2014, there was an exhibit of my work at mudac in Lausanne, Switzerland. When... View Article
These are 2 designs for BFI Film Classics’ reissue of Dr. Strangelove. I preferred the crazier one on the right,... View Article
Marian Bantjes Pretty Pictures with a Foreword by Rick Poynor 272 pages Hard cover 26 cm × 35cm (approx. 10.25 ×... View Article
I Wonder by Marian Bantjes 208 pages Hard cover 15.5 cm × 24cm (approx. 6 × 9½ inches) Printed in... View Article
Heading One I wonder about the people who wrote these letters. If they’re still alive, do they still care about... View Article
Wired magazine asked me to do a piece that said “A Cure for Love.” I made this because it reminded... View Article
Inexplicably, I received in the mail a full 6-volume set of catalogues from the store Restoration Hardware. I haven’t bought... View Article
I don’t usually show rejected work on my site, but I put a lot of work into this, and I... View Article
Tanner Woodford is a young powerhouse of ambition, who has started the Chicago Design Museum. As an incentive for backers,... View Article
This has to be one of my favourite pieces of all time. I had the idea to make something with... View Article
I’m not really into making these kinds of things any more, but sometimes money talks. As swirly shit goes, this... View Article
I came into possession of a box of fan mail to Robert Wagner sent in 1957. It contained envelopes from... View Article
Brandona Kavulla at Fortune Magazine hired me to create a complete set of capital letters and the numbers 0–9 in... View Article
The theme for this issue of Varoom was an easy one for me: Obsession. All I had to do was... View Article
I was invited by the lovely Pamela Williams to create a set of MOO cards on their triple-thick stock, as... View Article
Another Bluedot chair for another charity auction, this time for the AIGA. I decided to make a match for my... View Article
Andrew Zolli at PopTech asked me to create an identity for the 2013 edition of the PopTech conference, themed “Sparks... View Article
Each year at the Congress of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), members are asked to make something for a special project.... View Article
This was made in a marathon 7 hours, on-site at the Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) in June 2013, as an installation... View Article
For the theme “experiment” I had this idea to create a pseudo-scientific, faux-electronic, erzast-frankenstein kind of setup, with a bunch... View Article
I had it in my head I wanted to make a heart of gold. But then I decided I wanted... View Article
This is an interesting project. And an odd one. I, along with 5 other designers/studios was approached by Adobe to... View Article
I was asked to take part in a project creating carpets to be made by a fair-trade company in Nepal.... View Article
Todd Falkowsky asked me to create a surface design for a Blu Dot chair as part of a charity auction, OneXOne... View Article
This double-page illustration was for the “taste” issue of Varoom. For it, I imagined a menu of unusual things. 2012
When I was asked to speak at AGIdeas in Australia, I was also asked to design a special give-away piece... View Article
Because I travel a lot, I decided to use old postcards for my Valentines in 2012. I sent about 480,... View Article
For Varoom’s issue on “Localism” I imagined I kind of post-apocalyptic poem, etched in aged stone. 2012
When the good folks at Lynda.com asked to do a documentary on me, that was fun enough, but when they... View Article
I was asked by Kohler to design graphics for an oval sink to commemorate an anniversary of some kind of... View Article
This is another fabric design for Maharam Fabrics. It is based on the system I used for the G2 Puzzle... View Article
Hemlock Printers contacted me to design their annual set of wrapping paper. I agreed provided they give me carte blanche... View Article
This is the second of the wrapping papers I did for Hemlock Printers in Vancouver. It’s a toss-up whether this... View Article
This is the third of the wrapping papers I made for Hemlock Printers in Vancouver. It’s printed in flourescent yellow... View Article
This is the fourth of the wrapping papers I designed for Hemlock Printers in Vancouver. I’ve been wanting to do... View Article
I was happy to be asked once again to do another poster for The National. This time they were playing... View Article
The theme for this issue of Varoom magazine was “Next”, which is one of my least favourite subjects these days,... View Article
Each year for the annual AGI Congress, members are asked to contribute to a special project. The 2011 theme was “Modular”... View Article
Speakers at the OFFF Conference in Barcelona were asked to create a piece on the subject of “Time”, At least I... View Article
Sarah Habibi from Criterion hired me to do this cover for Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room” (1958). She sent me... View Article
In this piece for the UK Illustration magazine, Varoom, the theme was “Knowledge”. So I decided to create a map with placenames... View Article
Michael Salu, the Art Director for Granta Publications in the UK. hired me to do a series of covers for Chris... View Article
Because this Valentine thing has gotten a little out of control in a covetous way, I thought it would be... View Article
Todd Falkowsky asked me to create a surface design for a Blu Dot chair as part of a charity auction (OnexOne,... View Article
The excellent UK illustration magazine Varoom asked me to do a regular gig for them. Starting in November 2010, in each... View Article
Jen Beckman and Sara Distin asked me to take part in their 20×200 project: wherein they create art prints for... View Article
I don’t normally plaster my name in giant type on the cover of magazines, but this cover for Creative Review has... View Article
Penguin and the RED charity joined forces on a special series of Penguin Classics, and Jim Stoddart at Penguin Books... View Article
Above: photo by Benedict Redgrove. Wallpaper* Magazine asked me once again to be a part of their exhibit at the Salon... View Article
This illustration was made to accompany an article in The New York Times about the word “So”. Picking up from... View Article
I’m a big fan of the band The National, so when I got a call to do a gig poster... View Article
This was a rejected cover concept, but I include it because I love it. It was to be printed in... View Article
For the second item I chose from droog’s remaindered items at the Salon del Mobile, I chose 80 folding chairs.... View Article
For the 2010 Salon del Mobile in Milan, the highly inventive, active and innovative company droog decided to buy various... View Article
In 2010 I had the idea to make my valentines from old Christmas cards. I solicited my friends to send... View Article
Chip Kidd recommended me for this project to do a poster for the Academy of American Poets to promote April as... View Article
My good friend Brian Morgan called in a favour to get me to do this cover for The Walrus. I... View Article
Around the time I was working with Maharam on the “Centric” fabric, I was also working on wallpapers for Maharam... View Article
This is the first of my fabric designs for Maharam. Maharam is a very high end fabric company, mostly for... View Article
For New York Magazine’s end of decade issue, Chris Dixon asked me to create a full page illustration of the... View Article
I was invited, along with 10 other designers (including Milton Glaser, Louise Fili, Neville Brody, Chip Kidd, among others) to... View Article
John Gall at Random House invited me to take part in a project whereby 21 designers are invited to create... View Article
After attending Design Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa, earlier this year, I was asked to do the cover for... View Article
Todd Falkowsky of Motherbrand in Toronto approached me to design a … a … well, see, there’s this machine that... View Article
My 2009 valentines were a bit of a departure in a number of ways. They were more “conceptual” than previous... View Article
Saks Fifth Avenue commissioned me to draw 25 snowflakes for their 2008 Christmas season. (I delivered a few extras.) Working... View Article
Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to draw some thistles for a new mark for Strathmore Papers. I did various... View Article
When the Vancouver Review published their 20th issue, they asked me to do a cover. Here’s a stretchy, gummy “20”,... View Article
R-Wines, from Australia, wanted a poster with the names of all of their suppliers, to give to them as a... View Article
This is a groovy isometric patterned cover I did for the “Signs, Symbols, Ornaments” issue of the German mag Slanted. Oddly,... View Article
When I was asked to speak at Pop!Tech, I was also asked to create a poster for the attendees. I... View Article
Another poster for the GDC/BC. This one is for a speaker series talk on Sustainability, only they wanted it to... View Article
This poster is for the design unit within the Academy for Educational Development, a DC-based international non-profit. It says “Design Ignites... View Article
Working with the lovely Scott Dadich at Wired, I created this title for an article on “The End of Theory.”... View Article
This was the enthusiastically embraced, and then not-so-enthusiastically rejected design for an invitation to an important party hosted by a... View Article
It was the New York Times Square love fest ’08, with 10 banners by 10 New York designers + me,... View Article
I created this heart for Saks Fifth Avenue, for Valentine’s Day. It contains a number of hidden words related to... View Article
While the first 2 years of the valentines had the aspects of a promotional piece, with my name and contact... View Article
The Fader magazine asked me to do a diagram of Jerry Garcia’s influences, contemporaries and influenced. Now I’m no Deadhead,... View Article
In 2007, Stefan Sagmeister asked me to contribute once again to his series “Things I have learned in my life... View Article
Richard Turley is maybe my favourite Art Director. Another great—if I do say so myself—cover for The Guardian’s G2. It... View Article
asked me to do a fabric design for her Spring 2008 collection: I came up with an octopus and squid pattern. It... View Article
OK, there’s this Serbian calendar, called the Publikum Calendar, produced by George Mill & Nada Ray, which has become completely... View Article
William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand of Winterhouse hired me to create one of a series of posters for the paper... View Article
Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to work with him on this campaign for Saks Fifth Avenue, and then I... 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... View Article
I was called up by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, in a panic-stricken request to do a poster... View Article
I don’t know what they call this page in WIRED. A content’s page? An issue number? 2007
This is a Limited Edition cover I did for Wallpaper*. It’s printed in silver and gold (and other colours), and... View Article
This was originally done for a 2-page spread in The Guardian’s features section (G2), but was moved to the cover.... View Article
For my third year of sending Valentines, I got the crazy idea to draw each one by hand. I liked the idea... View Article
Steve Heller hired me in the summer of 2006 to do the Holiday Books cover for the New York Times... View Article
Graphex is Canada’s Biennial Design Awards, put on by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). I designed the... View Article
Debbie Millman asked me to design the poster for a four-part Live-in-Person version of her famous internet radio show “Design... View Article
This is a map or diagram of all of my significant artistic influences to date (or all that I could... View Article
For Wired‘s article on the new atheists: Richard Dawkins et. al. I’m not sure how obvious of an atheist I... View Article
Michael Bierut at Pentagram hired me to do this custom lettering for one of his famous Yale Architecture Lecture posters (I’m... View Article
I was asked to do the cover for the US design magazine, Print, as well as given [almost] free reign over... View Article
… well, because I do. … and because my peonies were wilting and sighing, and I decided to immortalize them,... View Article
2006
It’s a humble little thing, but really rather diabolical. Fiendishly designed to print on both sides of very clear paper... View Article
This was my second Valentine’s mailout, printed in red on glassine. The original is drawn by hand in pen & ink... View Article
I worked with Stefan Sagmeister to create one of his installation pieces of “20 things in my life I have... View Article
In the year that I started the Valentines, I also started sending out Halloween greetings as well. While the Valentines... View Article
Graphex is Canada’s Biennial Design Awards, put on by the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). As 2006 is... View Article
Imagine the moment your design hero contacts you for work… I was hired by Stefan Sagmeister to create this ornamentation... View Article
Society of Graphic Designers of Canada / BC Chapter Annual Report for 2004. I chose 10 blackletter typefaces to print this... View Article
Given the opportunity to write / draw over 3 spreads on the subject of Community for Fontshop’s Font 004 magazine,... View Article
I came across this while I was going through work, preparing to rebuild my website. It’s never been on the... View Article
This was the very first of my now-famous Valentines. It was printed in pink on glassine, and send in translucent envelopes... View Article
Years in the making, almost as long in the promising, this ornament font which happens to contain letterforms was conceived... View Article
Once upon a time, from 2004–2006, I was the designer for Vancouver’s critical arts and culture magazine, Vancouver Review. Mark... View Article
An oldie but a goodie. 2003
The famous Speak Up T-shirt design for Armin Vit – Speak Up . Silkscreened in silver on black (bitchin’). And... View Article
This is a small selection of the 26 “Letters to begin thoughts rather than sentences” which were my contribution to... View Article
This was my first (and only) promotional poster for my then-new work. Never name anything “the first in a series”... View Article