Magazine Spreads

The opening spread runs a full-bleed photograph under a condensed headline, and the following pages alternate between black-and-white archival imagery and the rust-coloured surface of the planet, so the palette shifts from Earth to Mars as you read.

Body copy is kept to narrow columns with generous margins, leaving the photography room to breathe, and pull quotes are set in the same condensed face as the title to hold the spreads together.

A halftone gradient built from dots runs across the spreads, shifting from red to blue, and the section headings, Introduction, History, Terminology and Characteristics, are set large in the same gradient so each turn of the page has a landmark.

The columns stay narrow and the measure short, which keeps a dense subject readable and leaves the dot field to carry the mood.