Cosmic View (1957)
Above: Via Artsmonitor, Kees Boeke’s Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps.
Published in 1957.
Boeke also explored the opposite direction.
Powers of Ten, the Eames’ presentation of this same concept,
was released in 1977.
J. Kevin Byrne added these words on Jul 11 09 at 6:55 PMGeotrivia for GEOTYPOGRAFIKISTS…
The book *Cosmic Zoom* was recast a decade later by the Film Board of Canada in its film *Cosmic Zoom*: http://www.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom/
(I saw it as undergrad design student that year.)Charles Eames used it as inspiration for *Powers of Ten,* which I first viewed as a grad student in design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Eames’ alma mater. -KB