An animation of the sun, seen by NASA’s Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) over the course of 6 days, starting June 27, 2005. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium).
Image featured from “The Sun – The Big Picture” part of a jaw-dropping set of images via boston.com
Full link: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html
A selection of Retro Sci-fi magazine covers from “Visco – The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover art” over at http://www.sfcovers.net/a fab archive, set up and maintained by Terry Gibbons.
Visco is much like http://www.coverbrowser.com/ in that it’s basically a database of scans & photographs, cataloging Science Fiction magazine publications from the 40′s right up through to the 90′s (why is it the 90′s designs are the worst? ). It’s an excellent little resource with art from many of the artists featured here, and whilst some of the scans aren’t of superb quality the diverse wealth of material more than makes up for it – a great read!
Notes on the above images:
(Top) 1981 cover art from Avatar creature designer Wayne Barlowe
(2nd Top) An action packed 1974 Cover from Tim White
(3rd Top) An astronaut in a familiar pose for this 1976 cover, art by David Bergen … If anyone knows any more about David please post a comment, there seems to be little info on him….
(Bottom) The instantly recognisble work of Leo & Diane Dillon art this time from 1972
Special thanks to Haniff for pointing me in the direction of Visco!
A selection of 5 superb poster designs from UK based Designer/Typographer/Illustrator Simon Page, beautiful work that harks back to the classic geometric abstraction of Josef Müller-Brockmann
You may already be familiar with Simons distinctive styled work as it’s made it’s way round many of the major design blogs, rightly so I think you’ll agree!… For further reading I definitely recommend checking out his Flickr Photostream for all his latest updates http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncpage/. Also check his Portfolio/Blog that offers the chance to buy exclusive prints http://simoncpage.co.uk/blog/
Featured posters are from Simons ‘Astronomy Posters‘ set on Flickr.