Andypbrowne

Cosmos

Editorial and graphic design inspired by a favorite television show

Man holding a strange star-gazing object to the sky
A closeup of source material found in the image library at the New York Public Library

Cosmos is a student project from 2011. It is a 4-page editorial spread that appropriated the transcription of my favorite episode of Cosmos. The “Backbone of Night” is about the mystery and the compelling nature of the universe.

The theme of space was first created by a typography exercise called illustrated word. I also like to think of it as words at play. Matteo Bologna would call it type masturbation.

A valuable piece of inspiration for this piece was the image library at the mid-manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. There they have a catalogue of thousands of images. The most interesting images were etchings and lithographs. These images are incorporated throughout the 4-page editorial spread.

Man holding a strange star-gazing object to the sky
Study for a wordmark
A line drawing illustration of the voyager spacecraft
Line drawing of the Hubble Space Telescope
A line drawing illustration of the Hubble Space telescope
Line drawing of the Voyager spacecraft
An editorial spread with images, text and a prominent COSMOS wordmark
Editorial Spread 1/4 with finished wordmark
An editorial spread with images, text and a prominent pullquote that says We Are Star Stuff
Editorial Spread 2/4
An editorial spread with images, text and an image with a commet filling the sky behind a hot air ballon
Editorial Spread 3/4
An editorial spread with images, text and an images of astronomers looking through telescopes
Editorial Spread 4/4