19 June 2012

Spin me a colourful day

Many designers and sometimes known artists are keen to represent spacecrafts, draw posters, create logos, etc...  the outcome of their work is used by projects to promote the image of the spacecraft and to help people who are not in the space business to better understand the goal(s) of the mission.
Since MSG-1 in 2002, ESA project asked a famous Dutch Painter, Shunyam, to design MSG posters, stickers as well as motives that have been used for many Public Relation items. This tradition has been continued with MSG-3 with a dedicated painting:
This new painting recently released, reflects perfectly, with its warm and vivid colors, those of the French Guiana. Shunyam who is very skilled in depicting animals, perfectly succeeded to represent the most beautiful ones found around CSG in a very balanced composition. All of them including trees and flowers look at MSG: the spinning satellite represented on a sunny sky, seems to be the only cause of this merry atmosphere...In fact one could imagine that they would ask the little flying object: Spin me a colourful day!
This idea has been taken over for other launch campaign goodies, paradoxically, ... raincoats:-)
Credits: Stéfane
The EUMETSAT sticker is more sober: just a simplified sketch of the MSG spacecraft but nicely reflecting the rainbow colors. These colors are those of the visible spectrum i.e. those that can be detected by the human eye. The rainbow is also a symbol associating rain and sun, two opposite weather types on Earth.
Credits: EUMETSAT
THALES got its own artists and the outcome is also extremely successful (and colorful): Three colorful square boxes for M, S and G each of them filled with very expressive sketches. The message is in fact simple and quite clear, so that no real decoding is needed: In one glance one can get the full scope of the mission.
Credits: Thales
Could we just propose a new slogan for this nice one?  MSG, La météo au fil du temps! 
(Let's get linguists to find a correct translation into English :-)

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