Artist Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is one of the world's most distinguished artists inspired by astronomy. He specializes in designing and executing visual presentations about astronomy in all media, including exhibit design, film and television, computer graphic, print and electronic media. In addition to creating his own art, he has managed and led teams of artists and technicians on major projects using sophisticated image technology.
Disk and Torus2. Lomberg's illustrations in books and magazines are well-known in Europe, Russia, and Japan, as well as in North America. He is currently working with the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii creating images to help explain their newest discoveries.
Jon Lomberg was the principal artistic collaborator of astronomer Carl Sagan. From 1972 until Sagan's death in 1996, Lomberg illustrated most of Sagan's books and magazine articles, and he was Chief Artist for Sagan's classic television series. For his work on COSMOS Lomberg received in 1981 a Prime Time EMMY Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Creative Technical Crafts." Lomberg has art directed many other science programs for television and videotape.
The artist has created some of the most unusual, durable, and far-flung artifacts ever produced by the human species. Lomberg's design for the cover of the Voyager Interstellar Record, predicted to last for over a thousand million years, may be the longest lived piece of human art ever made. He also designed a 10,000 year nuclear waste marker for the United States Department of Energy. Lomberg is the world's most experienced designer in creating messages for other times and other beings.
Cosmic Brain.
This was a logo design for Carl Sagan Productions, for a potential series on the human brain.
Pacific http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifSpace Turtle.
In ancient Babylonian cosmology, the Earth was carried on the back of a turtle swimming through space. This metaphor is updated in this poetic image. Planet Earth moves through the Cosmos as gracefully as one of the sea turtles that the artist sees on his daily swims near his home in Hawaii. The Pacific half of our planet is shown, with the major island groups of Polynesia visible.
This of course is not a Lomberg, but a
Peter St Pierre cosmic special rightfully
planted on a Campbell Bros 5 fin Bonzer and glassed at
Moonlight Glassing.
I think you can tell, by the expression of it's owner and operator (Shaun Ruiz) that
he's very happy to have recieved his "dreamboard".
Recently moving back from Hawaii, Shaun was inspired by the Sagan/Lomberg connection which made his choice of surfboard design and art an easy decision.
Artist Jon Lomberg
Jon Lomberg is one of the world's most distinguished artists inspired by astronomy. He specializes in designing and executing visual presentations about astronomy in all media, including exhibit design, film and television, computer graphic, print and electronic media. In addition to creating his own art, he has managed and led teams of artists and technicians on major projects using sophisticated image technology.
Disk and Torus2. Lomberg's illustrations in books and magazines are well-known in Europe, Russia, and Japan, as well as in North America. He is currently working with the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii creating images to help explain their newest discoveries.
Jon Lomberg was the principal artistic collaborator of astronomer Carl Sagan. From 1972 until Sagan's death in 1996, Lomberg illustrated most of Sagan's books and magazine articles, and he was Chief Artist for Sagan's classic television series. For his work on COSMOS Lomberg received in 1981 a Prime Time EMMY Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Creative Technical Crafts." Lomberg has art directed many other science programs for television and videotape.
The artist has created some of the most unusual, durable, and far-flung artifacts ever produced by the human species. Lomberg's design for the cover of the Voyager Interstellar Record, predicted to last for over a thousand million years, may be the longest lived piece of human art ever made. He also designed a 10,000 year nuclear waste marker for the United States Department of Energy. Lomberg is the world's most experienced designer in creating messages for other times and other beings.
Cosmic Brain.
This was a logo design for Carl Sagan Productions, for a potential series on the human brain.
Pacific http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifSpace Turtle.
In ancient Babylonian cosmology, the Earth was carried on the back of a turtle swimming through space. This metaphor is updated in this poetic image. Planet Earth moves through the Cosmos as gracefully as one of the sea turtles that the artist sees on his daily swims near his home in Hawaii. The Pacific half of our planet is shown, with the major island groups of Polynesia visible.
This of course is not a Lomberg, but a Peter St Pierre cosmic special rightfully
planted on a Campbell Bros 5 fin Bonzer and glassed at Moonlight Glassing.
I think you can tell, by the expression of it's owner and operator (Shaun Ruiz) that
he's very happy to have recieved his "dreamboard".
Recently moving back from Hawaii, Shaun was inspired by the Sagan/Lomberg connection which made his choice of surfboard design and art an easy decision.
