Man in Space

In response to my recent space book post, blog regular Terranova sent me these great photos of some of his early graphic design work.

"I was at Hornsey College of Art from 1965-69 and in the final months prior to man actually landing on the moon, one of our projects was a magazine spread on 'space'.

I may still have the final dummy page in a portfolio somewhere in our garage in Connecticut, but here are the two basic photos I took for the project, the model being I think either Revell or Aurora.

The idea was to depict the harsh light of a space walk in b/w. No photoshop back then, just airbrush, but again that retouched art may be in a portfolio."

Fantastic Plastic reports that Revell issued the kit in two forms, a large 11" high version, in 1967 which is what I suspect terranova has used here and a smaller later version, which can be seen on their excellent website.

https://fantastic-plastic.com/gemini-astronaut-by-revell.html

 Terranova's artwork captures the harsh actinic light of space really well and also suggests the grainy, televised coverage of the moon landing some months later.

Catalogue images courtesy of  The Box Art Den: https://boxartden.com/collections/gallery/index.php/Vintage-Model-Kit-Catalogs-1950-1999/Revell