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    March 6th, 2008

    By Jordan

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    Several weeks ago, we issued a challenge: re-create the Galaxy Zoo poster in a new way to tell the story of Galaxy Zoo yourself. When I posted this, I wasn’t sure if anyone would find it interesting, but as always, your creativity is amazing. The first submission is in, from Julia, and it is breathtaking. Behold:

    Julia’s Galaxy Zoo poster remix (1.2 MB JPG)

    I think you’ll agree that this is a big improvement over the text-heavy original, and I think it’s one of the most amazing science posters I’ve ever seen. Congratulations to Julia on an amazing piece of science/art! (Julia, if you’re reading, please say hello in the Comments section.) If anyone else is interested in remixing the poster, send me a message in the forum (I’m zookeeperJordan).

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  • 14 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. Tarquin Q. Zanzibar
      Mar 6th

      That’s a nice piece of work… big ups & props to you, Julia!

    2. ElisabethB
      Mar 6th

      Wow !

    3. Jules
      Mar 6th

      Hi Jordan,
      Nice surprise to see my poster there!! Thanks for your kind comments. It was an enjoyable Photoshop exercise.

      I note you’ve used my “posh” name – others may know me better by my forum name. :0)

      Jules

    4. William A. Dias
      Mar 6th

      Absolutely outstanding graphic !

      This really does capture the Galaxy Zoo effort.

      So, congratulations to Julia.

      I really liked the galaxy shapes pictured in the long bar at the poster bottom. Galaxy Zoo 2 might consider doing a similar treatment for the classification tasks / tutorial. Especially, if the classification task(s) require trying to capture those “in-between” shapes that give so many of us trouble now.

      regards, diaswa

    5. oino
      Mar 7th

      Excellent– my new desktop wallpaper, replacing Mercury in color from the Messenger probe ….

      Thanks Julia!

    6. Veggy
      Mar 7th

      Wonderful. I vote Julia be asked to design Zoo 2 (nothing against the old one, it’s very nice too!)

    7. Jules
      Mar 7th

      Well what a nice surprise – thanks for the compliments! It was a useful and enjoyable Photoshop exercise.

      Apologies if a similar message is posted – I did send a comment yesterday but it seems to have vanished into the abyss….

      Oh – and people may know me better by my forum name :0)
      Cheers,
      Jules

    8. John Parejko
      Mar 7th

      Excellent job!

    9. Hanny
      Mar 7th

      Oh so it was you Jules! Nice work! ;)

    10. Congratulations to Julia for a brilliant job which in my opinion should win an Oscar for designs if ever there was one !

    11. Shanita
      Mar 11th

      Gorgeous poster! Excellent job! It really does a good job of creating a visualization of GZ! :)
      Shanita

    12. Mar 18th

      Wonderful poster! I noticed that Hanny’s Voorwerp is included. I think that’s really cool! Looks great, Julia! ;)

      Eric

    13. Mar 18th

      Wow – this is the first chance I’ve had to look at this, but that’s incredible, Jules. I love it. Now I want a copy of your poster as well as the Zoo’s. :) :) :)

      (Jules is a great poster-maker, she did the Galaxy Zoo Meet-up poster for us to wave outside Astrofest. Mustn’t forget to bring it along to the Planetarium, although most of us will recognise each other!)

    14. Mar 28th

      Great design.

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