Amazing wallpapers by Marian Bantjes for Maharam
Marian Bantjes is a world-reknowned designer, typographer, writer and illustrator from Canada. She’s especially famous for her super detailed illustrations and intricate hand worked patterns… and she must be doing something right because some of the coolest companies and publications across the globe are lining up to collaborate with her.! Just this year she’s made a Laser Sailboat for *Wallpaper Magazine, customised chairs and a table by Dutch design house Droog, and made some seriously INCREDIBLE wallpapers with boutique interiors brand Maharam. Jeepers. Big year!
Marian’s Laser Sailboat for *Wallpaper Magazine
Droog collaboration
I also REALLY love Marian’s more personal Valentine’s day card project from earlier his year – laser-cut from recycled Christmas cards!? Simple genius!
Marian’s Valentine’s day card project earlier this year
Marian has a new book out. It is truly SO beautiful…. 208 pages of luscious layouts and gold foil goodness… and best of all, Thames & Hudson REALLY wanna give one to one lucky Design Files reader! :)
To be in the running to win a copy of ‘I Wonder’ by Marian Bantjes, just leave your comment here by the end of the day (Tuesday November 9th in Melbourne!). The winner will be drawn at random and will be contacted by email tomorrow! If you subscribe to these posts by email, you just need to pop over to thedesignfiles.net and leave your comment to enter!
HUGE THANKS to Thames & Hudson for this very lovely giveaway! Fingers crossed for many more T&H design book giveaways in the future!
*Update – the winning comment has been drawn and the lucky number is #174- SDG! Congratulations to Sarah, and thanks so much for all your entries! This giveaway is now closed.
Pages from ‘I Wonder’… Love the pasta patterns!
I saw Marian Bantjes speak at FIT here in New York last Monday. It was SO interesting to hear her talk about her work, her inspiration and her book. She’s very down-to-earth and was wearing the most amazing boots (my iPhone photo didn’t do them justice). She’s a true inspiration to anyone who has a vision and the desire to share it with the world.
I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
Looks beautiful! Great cover and title.
Beautiful designs. What a talented woman.
Oh, these are divine! I could just sink into their lusciousness. I’m dying to see more of her work.
wow, this book looks amazing! i would love to own it and peruse it while drinking a big cuppa tea!
Where can we buy this book – it didn’t come up on a search of Thames and Hudsons’s site.
I wonder if I’ll be lucky enough to win this! Fingers crossed!
All I want is a book somewhere….these are a few of my favourite things
oh wow, those vday cards are amazing! thanks for a great giveaway Lucy!
Life is a chance
Make use out of it
Life is beautiful
Admire it
How beautiful!!!!!!
Wow – what beautiful cards. Would love the book!
what a divine looking book of such incredible work.
I love this creative chick! I remember the talk she gave for TED (Ideas worth Spreading). She is a captivating presenter and her recycled Christmas card idea encapsulates beautiful design principles and represent a genuine gesture about sharing the love and beauty around in this world. She is truly an inspiration. Like all her work this books is an abject of pure original beauty – I would treasure this book for ever.
Thanks for this post – she is so amazing!
I love her work and her passion – truly inspiring
If only I had a mind that worked this creatively! I want to wallpaper my lounge room with those valentines day cards….. then I would feel loved all year round.
You don’t disappoint! I love that your daily introduces me to some of the most beautiful eye candy.The diversity of the work of this woman truly is amazing.
Absolute creative genius…I’d adore those pages & dream of having even a speck of Marian’s vision.
Oooooo yes please Lucy! X
book looks amazing.
How wonderful – the Valentines day cards are such a lovely example of great ideas inspiring great design.
the book looks just wondrous! Thankyou for another amazing give-a-way!
Katie’s comment at 7.24am was surely a winner, but if she doesn’t win, I would adore
to be the keeper of this devine book – or artwork within itself.
Stunning Work…Just Stunning!!! Love the cover…
Love the pattern plaid wallpaper…and the pasta pattern. Very cool! X
Please, please, please
What a beautiful looking book!
Such amazing detail, what a talent!
Fantastic! Great post.
What a lovely book!
Wow, what an extraordinary talent and an amazing book. Love those recycled christmas cards…makes me want to try it but who am I kidding!
Would love this book please
Very inspiring and talented!
I can imagine whiling away many hours and days marvelling at this book!
Wow, interesting work.
Greetings from not so sunny Stockholm.
I would love to win this beautiful book which is full of inspirational ideas
I wonder at Marian Bantjes and I wonder if I’ll win… Xx
its about time we got serious about pattern!
Love it! YESSSSS PLEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!
I’m excited and it’s my birthday xxx
I wonder.. indeed!
Great book – and a beautiful object in itself!
I Wonder-ful….delight-ful…colour-ful…
I have never seen this artist before, I love this work! Very inspirational, I love the textures, the creative use of laser cutting, as a huge fan of laser cutting I really enjoy what she did with these Valentine cards, fabulous.
Looks amazing .. what incredible designs!
Hate to judge a book by its cover, but I think on this occassion it’s safe to say, that book is amazing!
Wow. Thanks for this introduction. What beautiful work. Thank you
Thanks for another fabulous give-away. This looks like an absolutley amazing book. Thank you!
Thiis book looks fascinating..
A kaleidoscope of amazing. yes please!!!
What an amazingly talented woman is Marian Bantjes! Not only is her idea to create Valentines Day cards from pre loved Christmas Cards very insightful, but what a great way to recycle. Love her work!!
i also saw her on ted- wasn’t she wonderful- i have been pestering my husband for this book for my sunday birthday but it can be tricky to track down in a tinsy country town
Oh dear, please come my way. Please….
i wonder i wonder i wonder. great book! x
Stunning, simply beautiful…
I would love a copy Santa!!! Please xxx
wow beautiful sense of style and colour. Love to win the book
I love the intricate detailing. A true artist!
I love Marian’s typography! Can’t wait to see the book…
phwoaar!
that is all.
thanks Lucy!
stunning work, I love it
i’d love a copy!!!
Gorgeous designs that have brightened my morning
if only i could win!
What inspiration! And to make such beautiful Valentines cards out of something recycled… genius.
Delightfully amazing pieces! Bright ideas and collaboration are never understated… I’ll be keeping a close eye on Marians beautiful work!
Wow… stunning.
Love love love Marian Bantjes amazing work.
absolutely gorgeous!
OMG love at first sight. Shall be buying this anyway I suppose.
Very luxurious design
Yes yes yes, I want to win this book! If nothing else, I’d love to have it just for it’s amazing cover…
amazing work, so intricate.
love it !
how wonderful to see such a traditional notion of pattern making in such contemporary and relevant contexts… amazing imagery – excellent brain food!
Love love love to win this!!
wonder … such is the magic. What inspiration.
I saw her at AGI Open, in Oporto, last month. She talked about her work process, which involved a lot of sleeping. A LOT. Anyway, it was a great talk, this book was sold out in the venue half an hour later!
wow the book looks amazing! i want it, i want it!!
Oh PRETTY! Yes please!
OMG her work is amazing. The book would be divine eye candy and also inspiring. Sensational giveaway. melita xx
I would love to have this extraordinary book – and to spend time enjoying every single page. What an extraordinary talent.
I wonder… could it be more beautiful?
Count me in. thanks Lucy!!
oooooooooooooooooooooooo there are no words to match this paper goodness I am in love with todays post Lucy !
The recycled Valentine cards are just genius! I would love to see more, more more.
Thanks for the opportunity to win this!
Love Marian Bantjes! I saw her at a SP a few years ago and she was very inspirational. Would looove to win this one! Thanks TDF
Always a great and inspirational start to my working day :)
That feathery wallpaper is breathtaking. Marian’s work is fresh and stunning – what an incredible talent!
Fantastic post Lucy – so creative and inspirational. Love the valentine cards!
It’s amazing what you can do with pasta! I would love love that incredible book.
she’s alright…
how wonderful! i want it, i want it!!
Oh my goodness, I’m such a huge fan of Marian Bantjes. She’s amazing.
Please count me in for this wonderful giveaway.
love!
Oooooh what an awesome book! I love it. Thank you for your post Lucy that is just beautiful, great to learn more about this designer. xxx
How lovely to open up your emails each morning and find something delightful to brighten your day! Yet another fantastic inspiration!
Supercalafragalisticxpalodoscious!!!!!!!! Not much else to say really.
Hi Design Files
Not only do I love your website and fabulous insights into artists’ homes, lives and inspiration (and the photos are the icing on the cake), I love your ability to come up with these great giveaway ideas! Congratulations! I am always excited when I see one of your emails in my inbox! Thank you! And this book would be just wonderful, but don’t worry, I don’t expect to win after picking the horse that came third in the Melbourne Cup!
Soo totally beautiful. I wish I was half as clever. I would love love love that beautiful book!!!!
pick me Lucy!!
Love Marian’s work, just been learning about her on my design course so the book would come in really useful :)
My coffee table is lonely and much in need of a friend! Specifically, this one!
inspirational….
it is so nice to see the work evolving.
would love the book!
Looks Amazing!!
Wow! I love that table, and those beautiful valentine cards.!
Wow! She of my most favourite typographers and designers in the world! I do hope I am the lucky one who wins!
This book would be perfect on my new vintage coffee table!
What a stunning looking book!
I can’t wait to be inspired! What an amazing looking publication
What a wonderful way to see the world..
eye-wateringly pretty
and here is my comment. WOW! Absolutely beautiful. xxxxxx
What a wondrous book! I love it – thanks Lucy, another inspiring designer to brighten up my world!
Just beautiful!
It looks like a fairy book!
The simplicity and randomness of her designs bring order and vivacity to our lives. Beautiful!!
What a stunning book! Absolutely beautiful.
Spectacular book, very inspiring.
Thank you for introducing me to such an amazing illustrator, I haven’t come across Marian Bantjes before. I love the table made in collaboration with Droog!
ooh ahh, yes please!
Wonder is the first of all the passions!
Waaaahhhh! Want.
thames and hudson! this might actually be the coolest looking book ever..
Beautiful!
ooh gold foil goodness, i love it. thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
I do wonder!
this book looks wonderful. me please. x
I LOVE IT!
She’s amazing and her book is amazing and I would love a touch of the amazing-ness in my own two hands!
To have this book would continue to inspire me, im blown away by Marian’s wonderful work!
Just looking at the cover has me running to the book store! What incredible layered design and attention to detail.
Looks like a beautiful inspirational book.. How clever Marian is… make a great Christmas gift.
Gorgeous!
Textures and patterns have such an effect on our design ethos. From feathers to geometric patterns, how fabulous!
Looks very interesting. I’d love to add this to my design book collection.
Wow waht a beautiful book – LOVE IT!!!
*fingers-crossed* !!!!!!!!!
A book of designer dreams!
What a gorgeous looking book. Would love to win it.
Looks gorgeous!!
Beautiful book
I WONDER if I will be lucky enough to win this time round
Perfect for the pattern obsessed (me!) :)
What a great looking book…. !!!
I hope it’s my lucky day!! fingers crossed
So beautiful.
T&H do it again, what a great book and what a wonderful inspiring person to do a book on/with/for… Truly there could be mountains more I am sure of it… put me in the draw! thanks.
Those pasta patterns… incr-edible!!
Can’t wait to see more of what’s in the book…:)
Would absolutely love it!!!
This is such a beautiful book. Keeping my fingers crossed that I just might be the lucky recipient.
oh the pasta pattern is so good it’s killing me!
Would love to win this, what a beautiful book!
Clever girl, clever book… maybe I can be clever by taking a look.
Stunning book and would love to win it
I have a quiet obsession with wallpaper :) – this book looks stunning and i would love it!
design, typography, illustration, inspirational writing and intricate hand worked patterns in a beautiful book what more could you ask for!
a really beautiful book
seriously clever.amazingly creative. so good.delighted to be in the draw.. Thankyou.
All I can say is …. WOW
And all I can do is … Drool …. ….
Such beautiful illustrations! Very inspirational!
xx elle
Design Files always manage to make my day, so many levels of gorgeousness.
gorgeous gorgeous!! …and that sailboat is amazing!
Amazing work!!
great wallpaper. great book!
so gorgeous x
What a stunning book, and stunning photos. Is this wallpaper avaiable in Australia? Might have to do an OS trip to source some just so I can redesign my apartment….. But in the mean time, the book would provide so much inspiration. Thanks for sharing her work with us.
O WOW! Would love to have a copy of this book – looks amazing, thanks Lucy and Thames & Hudson for the chance to win it! Cheers Paula
That book really needs to come up to Townsville to inspire us. SEriously, Townsville needs that book, and I will make sure it gets shared!
Divine designs and superb colours – truly beautiful work.
Sigh…looks like Thames & Hudson have done it again…hooray!
wow, really really beautiful. I’d love one Lucy, thank-you!!!! xx
Sooo refreshing to see ornate design, a real blast of pattern; compared to the minimal expanses we see all the pages of most mags – wonderful!
*swoon* Must know more about this fab lady! Two thumbs up to T&H. Really giving Taschen a run for their money these days.
Just stunning!
serious gorgeousness! what a luscious looking publication.
Utterly heavenly . . . . Glorious cover too !
Thanks for sharing such amazing work with us, yet again, Miss Lucy !
x x
Truly inspiring. Ignites a love for great design all over again!
Wonderful!!
shiny = awesome!
oh WOW i can’t tell you how much I would love this book! great giveaway!
would love!
I have developed a bad case of book lust for this glorious book!
love her work her style and her passion…inspiration personified.
I first saw Marian on TED and have been following her amazing work ever since. She is so dedicated and frankly, a little obsessive!
Love! Love her work
I love the intricate details of her work!
What a book….. Would be a really good source for my works as an inspiration!
So inspirational…I want one! Going to the studio to make something…
Christmas has come early!
Oooh what a delicious looking book! Love the gold edged pages that promise treasures inside…
How utterly beautiful!
This gorgeous book would make a fabulous birthday gift to myself.
What gorgeous work!
Gorgeous & inspiring. Getting outta bed & heading to craft room! Amazing woman. Love the laser cut hearts.
How fantastic! Nothing like a hard cover! XX
mesmerising.
I get very excited by a bit of foil finish!
I especially love the noodle page- a gorgeous and witty version of an illuminated manuscript. Love at first sight!
The book looks like it could be magical.
an inspiring book, beautiful for a Christmas present
I would love to have and to hold.
How lovely! Yes please :O)
I am always Wondering so I am sure this amazing book must have my name on it….please, please, please
What a beautiful book! xx
Her designs are just incredible!
She is a true inspiration on so many levels!!!
Ooh, I’d love to win a copy of this book!
i’m in awe.
oh my! how WONDERfull
thank you marian and lucy for bringing beauty to my day.
makes me smile inside and out!
Inspiration – that’s what i need. Luv luv the book.
Yes, please count me in. Just what I need!
A wondrous feast of visual wonders!
yes please!!!!
Makes me smile :)
Stunning work!!
magpie alert!
Wow – Marian’s work is incredible! Intricate, complex and beautiful. I’m hooked! The pasta is amazing!
Very curious to sink my teeth into the book! …. :)
xG
beautiful cover
amazing detail!
Oh to be that talented. Thanks for such a lovely prize.
‘a feast for visual gluttons’.. I’m hungry!
Love Marians work and that Droog collab!
This looks incredible. Incredible enough to make the perfect gift for my pattern-crazy sister for christmas x
I hope I’m not too late! <3
So pretty! I love the ideas – just a few above and yet so shiny!
What a fantastic idea, such beautiful cards, the best kind of recycling!
Her Droog table reminds me of Wiener Werkstatte signature blocks.
My computer is playing up and I’d love a good book to drool over in lieu of design blogs :-)
I am an art teacher in a primary school and would love to share this stunning book and divine designs with some budding artists.
I love the feather wallpaper, what a beautiful book, one to treasure I think!
Marion Bantjes truely rocks and is absolutely inspirational. She has a great talk on Ted Talks
http://www.ted.com/talks/marian_bantjes_intricate_beauty_by_design.html called Intricate Beatuy By Design which elaborates on her talent including the fab cards. I applaud her and her work that feeds the world with a touch of ‘happy’!
She is a very special, interesting and truly inspiring unique talent in the design world.
Wallpaper extraordinaire!
Beautiful work! I would love to win a copy of this book!
Marian’s book looks so beautiful and I am in love with it already. Please Santa if you are listening let me have one for Christmas!
I. Want.
I heard Marian Bantjes talk at Semipermanent in Auckland last year and her passion still stayed in my head. I would love to see her new book!
Oooh I wonder if I am the winner? H
Thank you for introducing me to ‘I Wonder’ & Marian Bantje’s work.
As a painter working by myself sometimes you begin to question your diverse passion in; textures, random items in collections having meaning and context. To see just a glimpse of the way Marian observes was INSPIRATIONAL .
Looks incredible!
I would REALLY love to win this! :D
What a fabulous book! Love, love, love! A
yes please!
Oooo, divine… I can just see it on my coffee table!
So beautiful!! Thank you!
WOW, it’s beautiful!
Gorgeous!
Love ♡ LOVE recycled xmas cards!
Breathless.. So breathless..
SWOON! Such beautiful and thoughtful designs (Marian = genius) and to have them all in one gorgeous book – a treasure to pine for. oh how I wish my book budgets extended to gold on the fore edge. Thank you T&H for this lovely book.
Beautiful!
A stunning book – thanks for the giveaway!
A book of beauty & endless inspiration.
An incredible artist, and if I might say so, a great hook which, reading the comments, has flushed out some interesting takes on her work, and a seal of approval for Design Files. The age of hi-def web based information has ironically/inevitably lead to design based books becoming even more tactile, detailed and luscious. Bantje’s book is no exception – you just want to run your fingers over that cover! And her work is so inspirational because she takes a simple idea, like recycling old cards, and delivers in such a way such that the intricacy and intimacy of her designs does not betray the singularity of thought that she began with. Thanks for giving it such excellent coverage and I look forward to your next post!
Oh Sigh! This woman’s work is incredible and glamorous in its honesty and approach to recycling and her book looks sublimely delicious- good enough to pore over for months & years….I so hope I win this!!! Thank you for always sharing such amazing stories and individuals’ work and visions!
have been coveting this book…her work is incredible. What a prize!
♡ I would love to win this beautiful book! Thank you so much. ♡
Fantastic prize!!!
What a beautiful cover and book, and amazing giveaway!
This book looks like a jewel. She has such an innovative talent.
Wow !!!!!! just WOW !!! So amazing… So beautiful.. :-)
WOW its like she took whats inside my brain and made it into beauty. Please oh please lord of typography let me win :)
If I won this truly gorgeous book I would give it to my daughter Georgie who is a design student….I know she would jump for joy!
what a gorgeous book! I would surely love to win this
Lovely work. I saw her speak at the Design Indaba in South Africa some time ago and she was truly inspiring!
Yes yes YES!!!!!
wow! this book looks so inspiring and beautiful!
This book looks amazing — such yummy eye candy and inspiration!
Another brilliant giveaway – this book is gorgeous. x
this book looks like it full of divine inspiration…… if i dont win i think ill just have to purchase;)
I am always working at building on my cultural/creative/design/beautiful book library and this would be the perfect addition!
Fabulous offer, great opportunity to receive a beautiful book!!
Hope I am not too late..it was a sprint to the end of this long long list…Would love to discover more about Marian’s work…looks wonderfully whimsical…
i love patterns – the more intricate the better. these are just so gorgeous and clever.
Ooh! Such beautiful and creative pages! :)
Santa need not stop at my place unless this book is in the sack! Unless I win a copy!!
I need to win that book for my designalicious best friend. A woman with serious style, legendary design vision and an appointment to go into hospital on Wednesday. How I would love to send Marian’s gorgeous designs with her. Did someone say ‘little ray ‘o design-shine?!’
The woman deserves and award for most intricate, flamboyant, textured and enchanting designs ever !! The book would provide great inspiration for me as a student of Surface Design at the moment !
Gorgeous! Would so love to win this one! x
Such beautiful patterns! would love a copy :)
fantstic designer, and book. Great inspiration.
dreamy, truly inspirational…
The cover itself is a piece of art, I can only imagine the brilliance inside. What a talented artist, thank you Design Files for once again enriching my world.
Stunning book and walls that make me swoon.
would really love this book
Marian’s work is pure guilded brilliance. I love it and really want to see that gorgeous book!
Fabulous book! What a wonderful giveaway…I’d LOVE to find space on my bookshelf for it …it would be in great company! Cheers :o)
This book is beautiful! I have always admired Marion Bantjes! She is such an incredible typographer!
Marian’s work with simple white refined sugar and Stefan Sagmeister could possibly be the classiest most controlled and poignant example of modern consumer pop art.
and as a stylist at heart it touched me very deeply.
pure genius.. i have trawled her website for years watching her upload a poster for a graphic exhibtion here a collab with another artists there.
she is a dream
Please please please don’t let me be to late, I always get confused with the time!
I love love love Marian Bandjies, she is the most inspiring person of our age, her
designs just make you happy. You should watch the talk she gave at TED I’ve
watched it over and over again.
absolutely love the look of this book – and have always been a big fan of marian bantjes.
So loving her wallpapers………….
Pick me
Pick me
Thanks for the opportunity
I wonder if I am lucky enough …..
What a beautifully creative mind she has. Truely inspiring!
Amazing, pretty please with cherries!
Wow! Great work published by Thames & Hudson in all its “foil’y” goodness! Wow!
holy moly – how amazing
pick me pick me!!!
oooohh lovely, would love this book so much :-)
Oooh, I’d love this gorgeous book!
I wonder how my life would be,
If once I could win a book for free.
To be my muse and my coffee table’s chum,
Rest assured for this I would bang the “Design Files” Drum!
Amazing set of designs, really inspiring, makes me want to see more……
Must get hold of a copy ;)
Hello!
She’s my goddess, my inspiration…
Just wish to get more inspired… Please, please, pick me!
Take care XOXO
so so beautiful
What an amazing mind she has…the power of creativity and its ability to inspire. Seems that she embodies that spirit.
Renee
Amazing amazing amazing… Marian’s work is truly a feast for the senses. Love it!
Very inspiring!
how magical!
So incredibly lovely!
Love it!
yay i won a book!
A truly amazing book by an amazingly talented woman. You could get lost for hours in each image.
I hope to be this good one day!
Wow, what a wonderful book. these designs beg to be inspiration for lots and lots of other projects
One word, LOVE.
Sooooo gorgeous! I think I need this book!
Such a beautiful piece!
This book would be am amazing prize. I am obsessed with wallpaper right now.
Ahhh I hope I make it in time for the giveaway, I am SO in love with Marian Bantjes’ work!
Wow. This book looks amazing!
Those christmas cards are the sweetest things, such a creative use for old christmas cards!!
What a wealth of inspriration.
Another giveaway?! wow…!!!
yep, love it.
PASTA ! LOVE IT !
such detailed and lovingly enamored vector art, Marian Bantjes is an inspiration to all!!! I LOVE IT!
It’s beautiful – would love to win it!
Gilded goodness gracious for me?
delicious : )
Gorgeous
yummy yummy, that book would rock my world!