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Stories in the Stars

Every once in a while a dream project comes along, and illustrating Stories in the Stars was one of them for me. My brief was to illustrate all 88 constellations according to the official associated image and technical map assigned by the International Astronomical Union, but also to try to find a way to make them my own and to illustrate in particular the wonderful, intriguing and often strange stories that brought them into existence.

The writer Susanna Hislop has skillfully crafted a collection of wonderful and charming stories, as well as putting the constellation myths into the historical and social context of when they were offically created. Each background pattern I made somehow refers to an aspect of the story, and my aim in my drawing process was to try to create the atmosphere of her writing in as simple a way as possible. I also tried to always contain the official star shapes (the dots and lines in pink) within the negative space of the starshape object/character/animal so they are easy to see. I hope that readers might be able to use the illustrations to help to find the constellations when they look up at a dark sky as well as finding illuminating stories about the stars that lie above us.

One aspect I find particularly great about this rendition of the constellations is that in this book you’ll find forgotten perspectives, constellations as viewed not just from middle aged 18th century white guys, but also from other parts of the globe, from a feminist perspective, and even from the viewpoint of a dung beetle!

Many many many thanks go to the amazing editor Sarah Rigby at Hutchinson and the brilliant designer Will Webb who both did a stellar job of crafting this project into existence, as well as to Susanna Hislop for creating such wonderful content to work with. With thanks also to the rest of the team at Hutchinson and the printers in Italy.

Find it in your local bookshop now!

#damn #illustration #inspo

cassionandors-deactivated201709

honestly fuck you guys who are asking “what will Star Wars do without Carrie now?” That’s so fuckIng ignorant. What will her mother do? Her daughter? Her close friends? Her family? Star Wars will continue on, as it always does. We’re not mourning the loss of a role, we’re mourning the loss of an actual person. There is more to the world than Star Wars and to act like Carrie’s passing is only tragic because “what happens to Leia now?” is incredibly selfish and rude. A wonderfully talented, sympathetic, kickass, multifaceted woman has died and you should focus on her rather than her role. Her role is fictional. She was not.

samdesantis

kendallroynsfw

carrie fisher isn’t just princess leia. carrie fisher isn’t just an actress we all admire from a famous series of movies made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. carrie fisher isn’t just another name on the list of shitty things 2016 has done to people i admire.

carrie fisher is a woman who struggled with addiction and mental illness and never sugar coated it - she spoke honestly, openly, about every ugly truth, and made me so much less ashamed of the things i struggle with in my daily life.

carrie fisher is a woman who fought back against body shaming and misogyny, against agesim, who looked at critics and said “yes, i am a woman who has aged, and had children, and struggled with depression and addiction and my body has changed, so you can just shut the fuck up and deal with it”, and it was absolutely beautiful.

carrie fisher is a woman who was placed in the role of “princess” but didn’t conform to the typical hollywood idea of what a princess should be. she’s loud, brash, crass, and unapologetic for being so.

she’s an idol and an inspiration and she’s a woman who saved my life many times just by being who she was and never shying away from it or feeling the need to say sorry. carrie fisher is so much and more and i cannot begin to stomach the thought of 2016 taking her away from me, from her family, from the rest of the world and those of us who love her so dearly.

i love you, space momma. we all do. keep fighting the good fight.

cinemasource

Come Together (2016, Wes Anderson)

vanish

thegrumpymathematician-deactiva

Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.

witch-of-the-diaspora

During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids. Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi’s broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, In a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

unicornempire

One thing I love about tumblr is that there are so many people who write nice informational and historical posts, things I’d have never learned in school because they’re usually about women.

b0b-dylann

I relate to Newt Scamander on a spiritual level because I too cannot make eye contact and I love my pets more than people

wickednonstop

129 Of The Most Beautiful Shots In Movie History

nalianova

Zendaya, an actual Goddess, (wearing Marchesa).

mindblownie

in other news today i found out that eddie redmayne has a degree in art history and for his diploma he wrote a 12k words analysis of a picture that’s basically a blue square on a black background; the thing was it was a very unique shade of blue, actually used there for the first time ever; however, being colorblind, i quote, he had no idea what the colour was but well, it looked very pretty to him

and somehow i find this very uplifting i mean if you can pull sth like that off, write a 12k words thesis on a colour you don’t even recognize properly, anything is possible and this is the story of how eddie redmayne officially became my saint patron of high level academic bullshitting

krablord

So I found a site that does a subscription box for your period- it sends you basics like hygiene products, pain medication as well as snacks and pampering stuff to make you feel good,

but the best thing is they have a specialty boxes, like vegan or kosher only snacks but also