Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Marian Bantjes
What are your influences?
Most of the usual suspects such as 14th–18th c calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, islamic art, art nouveau, the Arts & Crafts movement, typography, textiles from around the world, old lace, Baroque, Rococco or Gothic anything, psychedelia, grafitti, Victoriana, Money, engraving, Persian carpets … the list goes on.
Surprisingly, I’m not a big fan of Celtic knotwork or M.C. Escher.
Less obviously, but just as important, are my interests in Modernist architecture and design, Swiss typography, contemporary art, photography, sculpture (too many forms to enumerate), fashion, writing and any number of things that might pass my way randomly at any point in time.
What inspires you?
See above. Plus, reading watching films or having conversations with people will make connections and trigger ideas that will cause me to rush off to a notebook to store something away for a future date. I can be inspired by anything I’m not bored by.
Whose work do you admire?
This is very difficult to answer, as there are so many people, I’m always meeting or finding new ones and forgetting others. An incomplete list: Doyald Young, Ed Fella, Herb Lubalin, Josef Müller-Brockman, William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, Chris War, Robert Bringhurst, El Lissitsky, Rudolf Koch, Moholy Nagy, Gert Dumbar, Ray Fenwick, Andrea Deszö, Stefan Sagmeister, Victor Moscoso, Will Bradley, Ingres, Caravaggio, Rick Valicenti, Alexander Calder, William Thauberger, Fred Tomasselli, Jenny Holzer, Ed Rushe, Paula Scher, Rickie Jay, Rennie Mackintosh, Martin Venezky, John Langdon, Koloman Moser, Mathew Barney, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham, Antonio Gaudí, Hundertwasser, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Neutra, Tibor Kalman, A.A.Milne, Milton Glaser, Peter Greenaway, and probably hundreds of others whose omittance will cause me to slap my head and say, “Goddammit, how could I forget ————??”
Who are your clients?
Stefan Sagmeister, Pentagram, Houghton-Mifflin, Rick Valicenti, ESPN Magazine, Details, InStyle, The New York Times Magazine, Print, Wired … and many others.
What media do you work in?
Pencil, pen, pen & ink, vector art, digital/photographic manipulation, photography, scratchboard, pencil crayons, paint, fabric, ribbons and other objects …
Most of the usual suspects such as 14th–18th c calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, islamic art, art nouveau, the Arts & Crafts movement, typography, textiles from around the world, old lace, Baroque, Rococco or Gothic anything, psychedelia, grafitti, Victoriana, Money, engraving, Persian carpets … the list goes on.
Surprisingly, I’m not a big fan of Celtic knotwork or M.C. Escher.
Less obviously, but just as important, are my interests in Modernist architecture and design, Swiss typography, contemporary art, photography, sculpture (too many forms to enumerate), fashion, writing and any number of things that might pass my way randomly at any point in time.
What inspires you?
See above. Plus, reading watching films or having conversations with people will make connections and trigger ideas that will cause me to rush off to a notebook to store something away for a future date. I can be inspired by anything I’m not bored by.
Whose work do you admire?
This is very difficult to answer, as there are so many people, I’m always meeting or finding new ones and forgetting others. An incomplete list: Doyald Young, Ed Fella, Herb Lubalin, Josef Müller-Brockman, William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, Chris War, Robert Bringhurst, El Lissitsky, Rudolf Koch, Moholy Nagy, Gert Dumbar, Ray Fenwick, Andrea Deszö, Stefan Sagmeister, Victor Moscoso, Will Bradley, Ingres, Caravaggio, Rick Valicenti, Alexander Calder, William Thauberger, Fred Tomasselli, Jenny Holzer, Ed Rushe, Paula Scher, Rickie Jay, Rennie Mackintosh, Martin Venezky, John Langdon, Koloman Moser, Mathew Barney, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham, Antonio Gaudí, Hundertwasser, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Neutra, Tibor Kalman, A.A.Milne, Milton Glaser, Peter Greenaway, and probably hundreds of others whose omittance will cause me to slap my head and say, “Goddammit, how could I forget ————??”
Who are your clients?
Stefan Sagmeister, Pentagram, Houghton-Mifflin, Rick Valicenti, ESPN Magazine, Details, InStyle, The New York Times Magazine, Print, Wired … and many others.
What media do you work in?
Pencil, pen, pen & ink, vector art, digital/photographic manipulation, photography, scratchboard, pencil crayons, paint, fabric, ribbons and other objects …
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Studio ’t Brandt Weer
The 11 commandments according to Studio ’t Brandt Weer:
1. Thou shalt have many gods.
2. Thou shalt make thyself many graven images‚ not necessarily with a likeness to anything.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of thy dreams in vain.
4. Remember the inspiration‚ to keep it holy.
5. Seven days should thou work and every day should thou also rest.
6. Thou shalt not kill any ideas.
7. Thou shalt commit adultery if needed for creativity.
8. Thou shalt steal anything but originality.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy principles.
10. Thou shalt not covet that which is thy neighbour’s‚ for thou shalt not need it anyway.
11. Thou shalt play with fire.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Damien: Hirst
Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, UK. He lives and works in London and Devon. Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media. Best known for the ‘Natural History’ works, which present animals in vitrines suspended in formaldehyde such as the iconic The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) and Mother and Child Divided (1993), his works recast fundamental questions concerning the meaning of life and the fragility of biological existence. For Hirst, the vitrine functions as both window and barrier, seducing the viewer into the work visually while providing a minimalist geometry to frame, contain and objectify his subject.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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