Martin Venezky is an artist based in San Francisco who takes a unique approach to the mostly digital world of graphic design. He begins by curating binders of images and graphics, over 30 fully unorganized binders, that he will pick at random and use for his next piece. What is so incredible about Venezky’s work is that his final products are quite large but he will use pieces that, when cut out, measure about a centimeter wide. It is in the continuous adding of smaller pieces that make his work so enthralling.

He was a designer before the digital era so his preferred method of working has always been analog. He believes that you can’t understand the scale or impact of a design when it’s on your computer; he also finds it dreadfully boring. One of the many things I admire about him is how he refuses to strive for perfect. He enjoys the awkwardness of the analog process and how things will hardly ever be perfectly symmetrical or perfectly in line; instead they have character and interest. However without perfect digital tools, he still is able to find logic within his work. He uses influences from his life to create his work; he was really into old model cars at one point and so then began to design in a way that reflected how machinery was shown in magazines. (shown bellow)

Which also happens to be one of my favorite works of his to date.