




Way back in the day, before blogs, the internet and before computers insinuated themselves into every household, I would pass the time drawing. I liked nothing better than a good packet of felt pens (or fibre tips as they are called now!) and a pad of paper. Perhaps this was the first steps I was inadvertantly taking down the path to design, but at some point, my random scribblings found a purpose. I combined my obsession with all things space with drawing after discovering an especially chunky note pad and began my 'Space Project'. In order to catalogue all my favourite spaceships, I wrote a few lines of text and drew a picture of the relevant vehicle on each page.
Very much a work of quantity over quality, I furiously churned out page after page. Eventually I filled up at least 15 volumes with my scrawls and now all but one or two are lost. One of the more durable was a cool vinyl covered spiral notebook. This was as far as I can recall volume 3 and judging by the inclusion of the piece of newspaper clipping about the Apollo/Soyuz Linkup Mission, would be mid 1975.
Its also a salient volume because it marks the discovery of Spacex 2 vehicles, which I began to cover based on the card back from the Booster Rocket, so my drawing of the Lunar Transporter features a side slung rocket as opposed to the integral cylindrical hull that we now know to be true. Besides actual toys and real craft, I drew on anything for inspiration and my feverish 13 year old imagination made all kinds of spacecraft up from hair dryers, power tools or anything else that took my eye!