Ted Audio Collective.

This is the 10th anniversary of Design Matters, and to mark the anniversary were

we're playing some favorite shows from the archive.

This one, an interview with Marion Banches, was recorded in October of 2010.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Marian Banches about her daring

typography and her highly ornamental designs. In graphic design, we're

taught that we're supposed to focus on this message of the client and you're supposed to get that across as quickly and

Effortlessly as possible so that people get it and move on and I'm trying to do just the opposite

Here's Debbie Melman.

She started out as a book type-setter,

and eventually, in 1994, opened up her own design firm.

But in 2003, Marion Banches left all of that behind

and began experimenting with work that was highly personal,

obsessive, and sometimes, as she puts it, just plain weird.

Banches is known for her detailed vector art, her obsessive handwork,

and her patterning color and ornament.

Writing about writing about Banschies on Design Observer,

Jessica Helfann said,

hers is a lofty, loopy love affair with typography and pattern and color.

In an age in which everyone claims to be a designer, Banshee's approach lies somewhere between perfectionism and fetishism.

In this, as in so many things, she is utterly fearless.

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