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Ross Berens Ruins My Dreams

I had really always thought it would be so cool to do a poster set with great design for each of the planets. I actually started a design for the Cassini at Saturn mission, but have yet to complete it. Sure enough someone comes along and knocks the whole system out in one fantastic series. Beat me to it!

The funny thing about doing the whole Solar System is that you will not likely have too many takers for Uranus or even Pluto. But the design on some of these makes it pretty tempting to grab just for the overall design. I can’t wait to email Ross when New Horizons gets to Pluto and it looks nothing like what is shown here. A gorgeous inclusion of the hypothetical ring some expect to find when we get there, but where are the 3 moons?

I would be a fool to not include Saturn. The exclusion of the Galileans at Jupiter, no Charon on the Pluto poster and the absence of Titan here on the Saturn poster… I wonder if I sense a moon series coming? Put me down for a copy of Io.

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5 Responses to “Ross Berens Ruins My Dreams”

  1. Bob Bennett Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 12:54 am

    Wow!!! As always, marvelous images!!!
    Thank you for ‘being there’… or is it ‘being somewhere far, far FAR away’?!
    In any case, thank you!!!!!!!!!

  2. Gordan Says:
    February 4th, 2010 at 8:21 am

    If it makes you feel any better, I thought Jupiter’s crescent looked kinda weird.

  3. J. Major Says:
    February 12th, 2010 at 11:03 pm

    Damn those enthusiastic and self-motivated designers!!! These are too cool.

    I do question the use of different font treatments tho’…..

  4. thomas romer Says:
    February 13th, 2010 at 2:43 am

    I like it to a degree. The changing of fonts is fine, what I think is odd is when the overall layout changes completely like on Neptune. It looks like a page out of a textbook whereas the others largely look like posters and Mars looks like a movie. But they are all gorgeous.

  5. J. Major Says:
    February 22nd, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    He may have to add some orange to the Pluto image. We’ll see in another five years!

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