This year’s Valentine card from Marian Bantjes was a design laser-cut from a repurposed Christmas card. (Weeks in advance of the day, she was soliciting donations of old cards via Facebook.) Each card is therefor unique, as far as the card design is concerned. An additional delight was the illustration of a Cupid’s arrow-shot Santa [...]
A gift from Mark
The supremely talented illustrator Mark Andresen recently gifted me a portrait, drawn on the cardboard from a flat of cat food. The perfect meshing of subject and object! My thanks to Mark, who was the subject of my profile in the spring 2008 issue (#67) of the international design review Eye.
