A sell out in Hardcover, It Is Beautiful...then Gone presents the celebrated graphic design work of Martin Venezky. This unconventional monograph includes both influential commercial works for the Sundance Film Festival, Reebok, and Speak and Open magazines among others. It also features new graphic work created for the book by this champion of the handmade and the unexpected. 'With essays, notebook entries, photographs, and Venezky's enormous collection of ephemera, it is a fresh take on a designer's work and mindset. It is not just a history of his work, but a look into his thought process in design and in life.'―Step Inside Design "...a fresh take on a designer's work and mindset...look into his thought process in design and in life." -- Step Inside Design, June 2005 ...engaging monograph, loaded with dazzling examples of Venezky's intricate-and sometimes overwhelming-hand-cut collages of type and image..." -- CMYK, April 2005 Martin Venezky is the founder of the graphic design studio Appetite Engineers. He teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
