

Qompendium / ManyStuffTogether with Alfons Hooikaas we designed this poster for a project about the Voyager Golden disc.
The project was organised by Qompendium in collaboration with Manystuff.
Our contribution is based on the following text by Carl Sagan from his book "Cosmos":
"There is something curious about the national flags of the planet Earth. The flag of the United States has fifty stars; the Soviet Union and Israel, one each; Burma, fourteen […] Many Islamic countries display crescent moons. Almost half of our national flags exhibit astronomical symbols. The phenomenon is transcultural, non-sectarian, worldwide. […] We seek a connection with the Cosmos. We want to count in the grand scale of things. And it turns out we are connected — not in the personal, small-scale unimaginative fashion that the astrologers pretend, but in the deepest ways, involving the origin of matter, the inhabitability of the Earth, the evolution and destiny of the human species."
Sagan (C). COSMOS. New York, Random House, Inc., 1983, pp. 50