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Edge of the Sky Illustration

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Foreign Policy Magazine
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John Pobojewski
Concept, Illustration, Programming

Designed while at Thirst

Astrophysicist Roberto Trotta, one of Foreign Policy Magazine's 2014 Global Thinkers, wrote a seminal book The Edge of the Sky, which explains the history of the universe using only 1,000 common words — making the complexity of cosmology accessible to anyone. This illustration visualizes Trotta's work, turning his words into a dimensional galaxy, with words becoming taller the more frequently they are used. Our discovery was in celebration of the top three words used: ALL, THERE, WAS.

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