colour space

  • a fleeting rather joyous moment – Hockney

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    Who has an an orange football in their bath room? David Hockney.

    David Hockney in stripped yellow and blue rugby shirt
  • Space Oddity

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    Thinking about branding at the moment and was reminded of this great photo of painting Atlantis name onto the space shuttles wing. Back when NASA was still using the ‘worm logotype’. Unit editions have printed the guidelines in their ‘Manual 1 Design & Identity Guidelines.’ NASA have also shared the guidelines here.

  • Space Oddity

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    The colours on this photo are retro because its an old photo, no instagram photo filter trickery here, the world was this colour back then? The original is here. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: In the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles M. Duke [left] and commander…

  • Space Oddity

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    Kathryn Thornton is repairing the Hubble telescope, I have cropped the square format of the image so the earth is no longer visible behind her, please check out the original. The full credit from the NASA Image Library is: This STS-61 onboard photo depicts Astronaut and mission specialist Kathryn Thornton performing the 2nd extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of…

  • Space Oddity

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    I don’t know where or when I first saw Vincent Fournier’s ‘Space Project’ photo of ‘Clean room, Indian National Satellite Insat 4B, Arianespace, Guiana Space Center [CGS], Kourou, French Guiana, 2007’ but everything about it is perfect, the colours, the objects. The whole collection of photo’s are great, but the spartan clean rooms with their…

    Vehicle Payload Canister Transporter, John F. Kennedy Space Center [NASA], Florida, U.S.A., 2011
  • Space Oddity

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    Space exploration is other worldly, this makes it odd, its strange and peculiar. But space exploration has created an amazing library of imagery and I am always struck by the colours. Nasa’s collection of vibrant technicolour photo’s are often seem matter of fact in their documentary approach, they are just recording events,  but the subject matter is…

    Astronaut training in desert in full space suit Apollo 16