Craft/2009/43 min/Reel № 09.001
ByMarian Bantjes
Marian Bantjes turns to type
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Marian Bantjes takes craft as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Canada in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Marian's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
It was by pure coincidence that Marian Bantjes started working as a typesetter. Years later, she has refined it into a magnificent craft.
About the speaker
Marian Bantjes
Canada
Marian Bantjes has been variously described as a typographer, designer, artist and writer.
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