![]() NASA’s Kepler Telescope is amazing. It has confirmed discovery of more than 150 planets since it was launched in 2009. Think about that for a second. Because of Kepler, we now know—as surely as we know the Earth revolves around the Sun, or that Pluto is no longer a planet, dammit—that there are other planets in our galaxy. We’re also starting to know a lot more about them—how big they are, how far they are from their suns, how fast they orbit. |
Launched on the eve of Tom’s SPACE PROGRAM: Mars, this joint venture between Tom and the Nike design team fuses, in several significant ways, the design sensibility Sachs brings to space travel. This video was directed by Van Neistat of HBO fame. |
![]() Lutz Bacher’s series of eighty-five prints entitled The Celestial Handbook, now on view at the Whitney Biennial, is obviously not a graphic design project. But the set of works, which are nothing more than framed pages from a forty-six-year-old, self-published book about astronomy, poignantly address the gap that sometimes occurs between the visual and verbal articulations of an idea—a gap that has both inspired and plagued the field of graphic design. |