Booklet, Fox River Paper: Marian Bantjes

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Booklet, Fox River Paper: Marian Bantjes

This is a Booklet. It was designed by Rick Valicenti. It is dated 2006 and we acquired it in 2007. Its medium is offset lithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This booklet for Fox River Paper, designed by Rick Valicenti and Gina Vieceli-Garza, is a compilation of graphic projects by Marian Bantjes that shows the range of design elements and influences that inform Bantjes’s work. The project incorporates a variety of papers and printing media, including embossing, fluorescent inks, and black foil. Custom inserts and reproductions of earlier projects provide an accurate depiction of Bantjes’s recent development.
A trend in contemporary design is the reexamination of the use of ornament as a counterpoint to the traditional clarity of the grid. Bantjes mines the history of calligraphy, type design, ornament, and oriental symbols and enlivens their compositions. Self-consciously autobiographical in tone, Bantjes's elaborate samplings of images, flourishes, and fonts take graphic design in a fresh new direction.

It is credited Gift of Marian Bantjes.

An upside-down trapezoid-shaped tote bag with small, rounded handles attached to the top center and a silver zip at the top left. The polyurethane coating of the bag is embedded with curling strands of silk thread that appear like storm clouds in multiple colors, including ruby red, bright turquoise, deep violet, royal blue, terracotta orange, canary yellow and pale pink.

Bag With Zip, Square Basket, 2013
silk threads, polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.3

An upside-down squat trapezoid-shaped tote bag with thin, rounded handles attached to the top center and a silver zip at the top left. The polyurethane coating of the bag is embedded with curling strands of silk thread that appear like storm clouds in multiple colors, including ruby red, deep violet, royal blue, canary yellow, pale pink and a small section of bright turquoise.

Bag With Zip, Small Square Basket, 2013
silk threads, polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.4

A booklet page of a photogragh. The upper left side of the page contains two paragraphs of text. Below is an illustration of a hand in grayscale. The palm faces upperward and shows a series of veins branching upwards to its fingertips. The inside of the thumb and index finger are bright red as if the first layer of skin has been removed. To the right of this hand is a book with a handmade cover. The book is adorned with six diferent materials in horizontal stripes. From top to bottom; silver thread on a black background, crushed glass on a white background, fluffy white cotton, corregated cardboard, brown twine on a red background, and mutliple stitched rows of black thread on a gray background. A light skinned hand rests palm down on the book.

Booklet Pages, Pages from Das Wunder des Lebens (The Miracle of Life)
gravure print on paper.
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A.....
2016-54-56

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 29.4 x 19.1 x 0.5 cm (11 9/16 x 7 1/2 x 3/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Booklet, Fox River Paper: Marian Bantjes; Designed by Rick Valicenti (American, b. 1951); Canada; offset lithograph on white wove paper; H x W x D: 29.4 x 19.1 x 0.5 cm (11 9/16 x 7 1/2 x 3/16 in.); Gift of Marian Bantjes; 2007-25-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Digital Typography Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DTUx/
Accession Number 2007-25-1
Object ID 18710251