Marian Bantjes**装饰性、工匠般的文字图片为她赢得了专业人士的赞誉和世界各地的狂热崇拜者。然而，Bantjes的视觉作品还有另外一面：她关于艺术、设计、美和流行文化——掩饰了她最**的作品的装饰本质——的深思熟虑的论述。这些思考——主题从对圣诞老人的崇拜、路边广告、摄影与回忆，以及纹章学到字母表的字母形式和星星——在这本精美的书籍中得到了极好的展现。现在这本书的升级简装版已经有售。

Marian Bantjes’s highly ornamental, craftsman-like word-pictures have earned her professional acclaim and a cult following around the world. There is, however, another side to Bantjes’s visual work: her thoughtful treatises on art, design, beauty and popular culture that belie the decorative nature of her best-known work. These reflections, which range in subject from the cult of Santa, roadside advertising, photography and memory, and heraldry to the alphabet’s letterforms and stars, are superbly showcased in this beautiful book, which is now available in an updated paperback edition. Intended to inspire creatives of any persuasion, this is more than a collection of ideas; it is an illustrated manuscript for the digital age.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stefan Sagmeister • Introduction • Wonder • The Sun, the Moon, the Stars
The Politics of Ornament • Ye Olde Graphic Designer • Honour • Cemeteries • 1 Sign 4
All • Secrets • The Alphabet: A Critique • Assembling Two ikea Bookshelves • Memory 1:
Photography • Santa™ • Memory 2: Notes on a Life • Sources • Notes on the Production