Context
Talk was a graduation project: an interactive experience exploring questions about our existence and our search for life beyond Earth. It is a narrative built around two civilizations trying to find intelligent life beyond their planet. One a highly scientific society and the second a religious civilization, both limited by their lack of understanding of their counterpart.
This project, however, is a book about the project. As a fan of book design and documentation, we mapped the six-month journey and research (majority of which did not make the cut) into a separate book that deserved a project page of its own.
Book Spreads
Moonshot spread
Us spread
Deadline spread
Introduction spread
Carl Sagan spread
Pale Blue Dot spread
Rakesh Sharma spread
Science and humility spread
Illustrations
Illustration, flat style 01
Illustration, flat style 02
Illustration, flat style 03
Illustration, flat style 04
Illustration, flat style 05
Research & Process
Apollo spread
Citizen Science spread
Citizen Science, alternate
Voyager spread
Outer Space spread
The Argument spread
The Artist spread
Questions spread
Astronauts spread
The Search spread
Role of the Designer spread
More Illustrations
Illustration, flat style 06
Illustration, flat style 07
Illustration, flat style 08
Illustration, flat style 09
Know Thy Users spread
Science spread
Maybe Post spread
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A book documenting the six-month research journey behind Talk, an interactive experience exploring our search for life beyond Earth.
