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

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Marian Banshees 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 Banchees left all of that behind and began experimenting with work that was highly personal, obsessive, and sometimes, as she puts it, just plain weird.

Banchees is known for her detailed vector art,

her obsessive handwork, and her patterning, color, and ornament.

Writing about writing about Banche's on Design Observer, Jessica Hellfan 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. Welcome to Design Matters, Marion. Thank you, hello. So you have a new book out.

It's called I Wonder.

Yes.

It is absolutely gorgeous.

Thank you.

It has the feel and the heft of something ancient and magical and mystical and I was wondering why you

created a book that essentially feels like a jewel box and what was the intent and the motivation

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