So, I recently started working on all of the print collateral and creative direction for the motion graphics (with Drips Black). I’m drawing a lot from early space education films, NASA information, vintage space infographics, and a lot of Disney Tomorrowland ephemera, as well as some aesthetics developed from Disney Imagineering attraction design (one day, Ian, one day).

The theme is “ADDYs in Space” and I hope to do it justice. Here’s a sketch I’ve been tooling with that will morph into tickets and invitations. The poster is going to be much more epic.

For your entertainment, here’s a little-known fact about Walt Disney World’s Tomorrowland “Mission to Mars” ride:

Mission to Mars officially opened in March of 1975. Its first show was to a packed theater, and guests watched with wide eyes as their simulated ship was locked, fueled, and launched. Darkness (representing hypersleep) gave way to a view of the approaching red planet — and this is where the trouble began.

As the planet’s surface neared and Martian canals came into view, some guests were startled to see gigantic tripod-like vehicles walking through Martian cities, apparently armed with enormous heat ray devices. Although these elements of the experience had been added by Imagineers in the hope of depicting a plausable alien civilization, they were so realistic and imposing that some guests forgot that they were experiencing a simulation. A riot broke out inside the attraction. Parents wrapped wet handkerchiefs around their children’s mouths to protect them from Martian death gas. One visitor from rural Kentucky hauled out his squirrel rifle and began taking pot shots at the images on the movie screen. Women screamed. Men fainted. Babies cried. Embarrassed teenagers pretended they weren’t with their parents.