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MARIAN BANTJES

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claude garamond

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KAREL MARTENS

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The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in

the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens

can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the

line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem

Sandberg. Yet he maintains some distance from the

main developments of our time: from both the practices

of routinized modernism and of the facile reactions

against this. His work is both personal and experimental.

At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the now 50 years of his practice,

Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He

has also made contributions in a wide range of design

commissions, including stamps, coins, signs on

b u i l d i n g s . I n t i m a t e l y connected with this design

work has been his practice

as an artist. This started with geometric constructions.

Karel Martens is a Dutch designer and teacher. After

training at the school of art in Arnhem, he has worked

as a freelance graphic designer, specializing in

typography. Alongside this, he has always made free (non-

commissioned) graphic and three-dimensional work. His

design work ranges widely, from postage stamps, to

books, to signs on buildings. All this work is documented

and celebrated in the books Karel Martens: drukwerk /

printed matter and Karel Martens: counterpr int . Martens has taught graphic

design since 1977. His first appointment was at the

school of art at Arnhem (until 1994). He was then

attached to the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht

(1994–9). From 1997 he has been a visiting lecturer

i n t h e g r a p h i c d e s i g n

department at the School of Art, Yale University.

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The work of Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in

the present European art-and-design landscape. Martens

can be placed in the tradition of Dutch modernism – in the

line of figures such as Piet Zwart, H.N. Werkman, Willem

Sandberg. Yet he maintains some distance from the

main developments of our time: from both the practices

of routinized modernism and of the facile reactions

against this. His work is both personal and experimental.

At the same time, it is publicly answerable. Over the now 50 years of his practice,

Martens has been prolific as a designer of books. He

has also made contributions in a wide range of design

commissions, including stamps, coins, signs on

b u i l d i n g s . I n t i m a t e l y

connected with this design work has been his practice

as an artist. This started with geometric constructions.

Karel Martens is a Dutch designer and teacher. After

training at the school of art in Arnhem, he has worked

as a freelance graphic designer, specializing in

typography. Alongside this, he has always made free (non-

commissioned) graphic and three-dimensional work. His

design work ranges widely, from postage stamps, to

books, to signs on buildings. All this work is documented

and celebrated in the books Karel Martens: drukwerk /

printed matter and Karel Martens: counterpr int . Martens has taught graphic

design since 1977. His first appointment was at the

school of art at Arnhem (until 1994). He was then

attached to the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht

(1994–9). From 1997 he has

been a visiting lecturer i n t h e g r a p h i c d e s i g n

department at the School of Art, Yale University.

social structure

Claude Garamond was a French publisher from Paris. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and is credited with the introduction of the apostrophe, the accent and the cedilla to the French language. Several contemporary typefaces, including those currently known as Garamond, Granjon, and Sabon, reflect his influence.

Garamond was an apprentice of Simon de Colines; later, he was an assistant to Geoffroy Tory, whose interests in humanist typography and the ancient Greek capital letterforms, or majuscules, may have informed Garamond’s later work.

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Marian Bantjes was born in 1963 and is a Canadian designer, artist, illustrator, typographer and writer. Bantjes started working in the field of visual communication in 1983. She become internationally known for. Describing herself as a Graphic Artist, working primarily with custom type and ornament.

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Grafisk design: Eli Renate Bye JohansenFoto: Eli Renate Bye Johansen

Kilder:Sagmeister:http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/483752-it-is-very-important-to-embrace-failure-and-to-doKarel Martens: http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/authors/karel_martensClaude Garamond:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_GaramondMarian Bantjes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Bantjes

Eli Renate Bye Johansen, Grafisk Design 2.1 A, Høst 2012