Blast off to explore our Solar System – from the fearsome heat of the Sun to the freezing distant planets, plus moons, asteroids and more. Discover how humans are planning to visit Mars, what you would weigh on Jupiter and what makes Venus so deadly.
‘See inside the Solar System’ illustrated by Carmen Saldana for Usborne is available from June.
Andy‘s latest cover illustration and animation for BBC Science Focus print and Apple News edition.
The theme for this commission was on the Great Moon Rush and the sudden lunar interest from superpowers and billionaires. Using the lovely ’69 Time cover as inspiration, Andy developed the spiral-centric design to accommodate a few more lunar landers all created and animated in Cinema 4d with After Effects post work.
Astronaut Clayton Anderson spent 152 days in space aboard the International Space Station – and while he didn’t mail dozens of letters back to Earth (they would have burned up on reentry!), imagine if he did!
These letters from space are full of weird science, wild facts, and outrageous true stories from life in space, complete with hysterical illustrations from Susan Batori.
‘Letters from Space’, available from Sleeping Bear Press.
3… 2…1… BLAST-OFF! Christiane has illustrated ‘Build-a-Story Cards – Space Quest’ for Barefoot Books. This deck of 36 wordless cards features fantastical spaceships, planets, astronauts and aliens.
The cards also present problems to solve and tools for creative solutions, encouraging critical thinking skills and laying the building blocks for lifelong STEM learning.
