The Tide Inside

The following series of work was produced for the Edinburgh based band The Tide Inside. Based on aerial photography (does it still count as 'aerial' if it's from a spacecraft?) from the around one of Jupiter's moons - Europa - the design aimed to tie in the feeling of light & movement out of darkness present in the music of the band with a very real celestial equivalent.

Darkness before the light

Encased in a crust of ice kilometres thick; Europa would at first appear to be one of the most desolate places in the solar system. However it is the belief of many today that beneath this layer of white there lies an active ocean of liquid water, tides of energy flowing under the frozen surface. 

Our discoveries on Europa demonstrate that even out of utter darkness there may come movement and life, and what initially appears cold and dark on the outside may contain something else entirely.

The reference photography and much of the information we know about Europa came from the Galileo spacecraft, the original image - a thing of sheer beauty - is available here:  Europa Mosaic - NASA