(Space) Graphic Design is My Passion

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our latest episode of the On Orbit podcast is all about design. Not spacecraft design, or satellite engineering, but graphic design in the space industry.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visual and graphic design elements play an important, yet often overlooked role in our community’s ability to communicate. For an industry that basically lives at the cutting edge, the look and feel of it can sometimes be a little stagnant — lots of blacks, blues, and grays. Most people will tell you that this is due to either the strict and rigid requirements and culture of end-users, or the reliance on design contractors who don’t know exactly how space technology works.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That said, the industry is actively trying to change its look to attract new customers to commercial space services. To provide some perspective on this, we invited two space-focused graphic design experts who explain how visual design in the industry is evolving as access to space is expanding.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both guests are full-time designers who came to the space industry from the world of fashion design. Our first guest is</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eboninflight/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Erin Bonilla</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, creative director and co-founder of</span> <strong>Harbinger Creative</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Erin has been a graphic design expert for</span> <strong>NASA</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">for several years and talked to On Orbit host Jeffrey Hill about how the agency has worked to keep its already iconic branding fresh and relevant.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are also joined by</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordankleincd/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jordan Klein</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, creative director at satellite antenna systems developer</span> <strong>NXTCOMM</strong