Design on the mind

Image Credit: NASA, Donald Walter (South Carolina State University), Paul Scowen and Brian Moore (Arizona State University)

I saw this picture on the Nasa website yesterday and it made me think; Isn’t it amazing? We can take a picture of something happening 7,100 light years from earth of a star 40 times more massive than our sun blowing a giant bubble of material into space.  We can take a picture on a mobile phone and send it anywhere we want, we can load albums online to share and download images at the touch of a button. What would those pioneers of photography 100 years ago think if they could see this picture? Perhaps just 500 years ago it would have been considered sourcery or some sort of religious intuition?

Images are powerful things, designers and advertisers utilize this power everyday for  persuasive communication. Although today people realize that images can be manipulated very cleverly there is still a real authenticity to a picture that can’t be denied. “Seeing is beliving”.

What image sticks most in your mind? Or what image had the most profound effect on you when you saw it?

Toni

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