Art Cadets

During one of my modules in University, I had the opportunity to collaborate with the graphic design course and some external companies. My team chose a brief that was for us to create an idea for a marketing pack as part of an outreach programme, aimed at getting young people from variety of backgrounds, interested in planetary sciences and astronomy as a future career.

For this project it was also a competition and as a group of five, we named ourselves Art cadets, where there were two illustrators (including myself) and three graphic designers. The outcome was required to involve paper engineering that was supported by the external companies who were Foilco, Baddeley brothers and G. F. Smith.

We came up with a workshop idea which we called “Illustrate constellations”. The workshop was about students aged between 11 to 15 who would come into the university to make a creative artwork of their vision of space, astornomy and of course consetllations. They would not only have fun drawing but they will also learn facts about space they never knew about and could find possibly interesting and inspiring as a future career. Our aim for this workshop was for participants to demonstrate their artistic abilities as well as increasing their knowledge on planetary science and constellations.

After many meetings on Microsoft Teams, researching, prototyping and budgeting the costs. We came to a conclusion of only creating a puzzle set which we have successfully created and this was a 3D tessellation puzzle with constellations printed on them in gold foil which was inspired by the James Webb Telescope. We were the runner ups to first place which was such a huge achievement to all of us and I was very proud of myself and my team.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop