"I feel like my work has a lot in common with fine art"

He demonstrates a facination with patterns, rhythm and all architecture of type


MARTIN is notable for his visually arresting and compelling graphic
Vanezky has two published books out right now.... It is beautiful..then it is gone AND Push Pin: Graphic: A Quarter Century Of Innovative Design and Illustration


"The materials I use—tape, cardboard, copy paper, pencil, wax—practically beg to disintegrate. If pieces flutter off, what remains means more to me." - M.V.




Venezky believes there are 2 kinds of design - 'top-down' which means "properly schooled designs, the needs of the industry, the art view in museums"
AND 'bottom-up' designs which are not so predictable aka "the messier stuff"

Martin considers himself a 'bottom-up' designer