Early to Rise

Corporate spaceship emblem

“On the way to a distant planet, three less-than-qualified astronauts are awoken 90 years too early and trapped inside their hibernation pods. Alone in the endless void, they can’t kill themselves, they can’t kill each other, so they’ll just have to kill time.”

Overview

Early to Rise is a digital comedy series produced with Geil Comedy and Revery.  I worked with the director to design an emblem for the space mining ship Dream Blaster, which was used as a GUI element on the space hibernation pods the characters are trapped in.

Methods

The design was created in Illustrator. I referenced emblems from NASA space flights, created a simplified silhouette of the mining ship from the series, and added symbolic elements, including repurposing the iconic starburst to depict a mining blast.