Devil's Tower Spaceport

Devil's Tower Spaceport Wyoming

There aren't very many natural landmarks as recognisable as Devil's Tower. I guess that's why it was used in Steven Spielberg's classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I'm pretty sure that everybody has had a go at making their own mashed potato version while mumbling "I'm sure this is important somehow." When it was reused in the sci-fi tribute film Paul, its place in (fictional) space travel history was raised a little higher still. So I thought I'd make my own tribute. If you were visiting Earth in your brand new UFO for the first time what better place to start than there.

Get a print at Society6 or a T-shirt at Redbubble. Full details on the Doodle Dojo Store.

Cavorite - A Remarkable Alloy

Invented by Dr. Cavor in H.G. Wells First Men in the Moon

As you might have spotted, I'm a bit of a science fiction geek. So for this one I've gone back about as far as its possible to go in the genre and taken some inspiration from one of the originals. H.G. Wells had some amazing ideas and wrote some incredible books. One of his best ideas was Cavorite, which featured in The First Men in the Moon (Its free! Download yourself a copy). If its possible, his character reasoned, to have materials which are transparent and opaque to different forms of energy, why shouldn't it be possible to have a material opaque to gravity? It still seems like a pretty good idea today, so I thought I would have a go at designing an ad for just such a material.

I had a good look at some victorian adverts to get a feel for the style and made sure I got the copy in period too. The illustration shows the cavorite spacecraft which the heroes of the story use to visit the moon. That's where the main part of the story takes place, but as usual I got sidetracked by how cool it would be to fly around space in this contraption!

When I added this to Redbubble, I got a nice mail from Synaptyx (of Synaptees) asking if I would like to add some of my work to a group he admins called Corporation Inc. Of course I said 'yes please,' and they have been kind enough to feature some of my stuff on the group's main page. Thanks very much!

As always this design is available on all sorts of T-shirts, iPhone Cases and Stickers. Just go through the Doodle Dojo Store to find all the links.

Low Flying Spacecraft

Health and Safety on the Death Star

The Death Star can be a dangerous place, the clue is in the name really. But no matter how dangerous it is, it can always be made a bit safer by those wonderful people from health and safety. Even Darth Vader understands that good men are hard to train, so he doesn't want them lost to avoidable accidents.

Star Wars is the film that got me into all the other sci-fi in the world. Its probably the biggest single thing to turn me into the geek I am now. So it had to happen that one of my ideas was Star Wars related eventually. Well here it is, so what do you think?

Obviously, this is available on T-shirts from Redbubble over at the Doodle Dojo Store. There is also a version on their brand new iPhone cases and of course there are stickers too. So get yourself on over there and take a look!

Update

This design (along with some others!) is now up for voting on Qwertee.

Give it a vote and it may well be going to print for two days. Screen print quality and a low price as well? What are you waiting for? :-)

Dave Bowman's EVA Suits

The best space suits this side of Jupiter

2001: a Space Odyssey is one of my favourite films. Amazing visuals and great music with a strange story about the evolution of man. Not to mention a mad computer trying to kill all humans. So this is my tribute to the classic. My god, its full of stars! I'm afraid I can't let you do that Dave, etc. etc. If there is one person in the universe who knows his space suits, its going to be Dr. Dave Bowman. Just make sure you don't forget your helmet (supplied separately).

This doodle is available on T-shirts at the Doodle Dojo store via Redbubble right now in two versions. One with Dave and the other with just the logo. Its also up for voting on Qwertee which means that if you get over there and give it a vote (and get your  friends to vote as well ;-) ) it might be available in screen print quality at a very reasonable price.

Up for voting at Qwertee.com

So make sure you get over there and give it a click!