Author: pvos

  • “National Park” Styled Posters

    “National Park” Styled Posters

    When a colleague returned from a conference in Hawaii (back in 2019), he excitedly showed me a poster designed for another observatory – done in a style reminiscent of the WPA produced National Park posters. I was familiar with both the style, and the poster in question, and had been working on a few WPA-inspired […]

  • Gas Wind Streaming from Galactic Center

    Gas Wind Streaming from Galactic Center

    At the heart of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center lies a supermassive black hole, and surrounding it are regions of intense star formation. The black hole, the star-forming regions, or a combination of both are driving a million-degree wind of hot gas that flows outward above and below the plane of the Milky Way in […]

  • Family Science Day 2018

    Family Science Day 2018

    Poster and collateral designs for Family Science Day at the Green Bank Observatory Science Center.

  • Space Race Rumpus T-shirt design

    Space Race Rumpus T-shirt design

    The Space Race Rumpus is a yearly biking event at the Green Bank Observatory for cyclists of all ages and skill levels. Though aimed at mountain bikers, the event also has road rides, time-trials, and trail rides all over the GBO site. The event is also marked by a t-shirt design contest, which I won […]

  • Poster Design – 60th Anniversary Posters for Green Bank Observatory

    Poster Design – 60th Anniversary Posters for Green Bank Observatory

    During the build up to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Green Bank Observatory, I created a number of collateral pieces for the event. These two poster designs were used to draw attention to our history – depicting the original Tatel 85-1 telescope that took some of the first observations at Green Bank. […]

  • Photo Illustration – Swarm of Hydrogen Clouds Flying Away from Center of our Galaxy

    Photo Illustration – Swarm of Hydrogen Clouds Flying Away from Center of our Galaxy

    Official press release from the Green Bank Observatory. This image was created using a large-format image of the Milky Way galaxy (photo by Serge Brunier, more info about this work here) upon which an illustration of the expanding clouds was created in Photoshop. Creating an image of something which is not exactly visible to the […]

  • Oslo – Living in a Hostel Environment

    Oslo – Living in a Hostel Environment

    Photos from Oslo, Norway.

  • Landscape

    Landscape

    Clicking the Gallery above will open the photos in my Flickr site.

  • Random Photos

    Random Photos

  • Jacob’s Ladder – redesigned

    Jacob’s Ladder – redesigned

    With the 25th anniversary of Jacob’s Ladder, Inc. approaching (in April 2016) a new site redesign was needed. Something that would be responsive, clean, and easy to navigate. Reworking the design from a custom WordPress to a templated site was a good decision in the long run. While the custom site allowed for a certain […]