Gallery Type: Psyche Inspired 2021-20

This deck of cards is designed to emulate the theorized texture and color of the asteroid. The card background is a navy blue, and the supporting design elements are gold, silver, royal blue, and dark blue. The diamond and heart suits are silver, whereas the club and spade cards are gold. Each design element follows an art deco aesthetic and consists of outlined geometric shapes and sharp edges with thick and thin lines that are gold or silver. Fun facts are found at the top and bottom of the cards with dates and titles found on the sides.

April 30, 2021

The Psyche Flight Deck

Brianna Young April 30, 2021 Major: Graphic Design Genre/Medium: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art deco style About the work: For my final project with Psyche Inspired, I decided to design...
Three illustrations showing different instruments on the Psyche spacecraft. There is a multispectral imager, a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, and a magnetometer. The illustrations are made of purple and blues, surrounded by spherical elements representing molecules.

April 26, 2021

Deciphering Psyche

Anne Elliott April 26, 2021 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: digital art About the work: These illustrations depict artistic representations of three instruments (the multispectral imager,...
This piece consists of four parts, each made of plexiglass with black ink. Dimensions are 8 inches by 10 inches, 8 inches by 10 inches, 8 inches by 2 inches, 4 inches by 10 inches. Pointillism builds the form of the Psyche logo, the spacecraft, the orbits of the spacecraft around the asteroid, and an imagining of a crater on Psyche’s surface.

April 23, 2021

Orbiting Impact

Lydia Pitts April 23, 2021 Major: Computer Science Genre/Medium: ink on plexiglass About the work: Orbiting Impact was inspired by all the stages of the mission – from start to finish....
This piece titled depicts the the symbol of the (16) Psyche asteroid. The symbol is in a bold white font wrapped with the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue. These colors give a sense that the symbol is slightly vibrating. The background is painted black with little white stars, representing space and the infinite universe behind it. The painting in size is 36 x 28, and it has a rough texture to compliment the black space around the symbol.

April 21, 2021

The Butterfly & Star

Zarina Karapetyan April 21, 2021 Major: Art History Genre/Medium:  acrylic, ink, and texture on canvas About the work:  “The Butterfly and the Star” depicts the symbol of the (16) Psyche...
Three embroidery hoops of black fabric lay arranged as a triangle on an off-white wall. The top hoop has an embroidered asteroid colored with yellow, orange, pink, and purple threads. The bottom left hoop has a yellow threaded circle with unsymmetrical white dashed lines following the arc of the circle from the top most point to the bottom most point. The bottom right hoop is slightly bigger with an orbital design of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and the Psyche asteroid and spacecraft at three spots. A white dashed line circles from Earth to Mars then around to a greater orange outer circle where Psyche and the spacecraft meet.

April 19, 2021

Around Psyche

Cameryn Laborte April 19, 2021 Major: Mechanical Engineering Genre/Medium: embroidery hoops About the work: The organic shape of Psyche contrasting with the rigid, sharp-angled spacecraft inspired...

April 16, 2021

Psyche’s Magnetic Fields

Aarti Patel April 16, 2021 Major: Mechanical Engineering Genre/Medium: 5 x 5 scratchboards, scratch tools, and acrylic paint About the work: Psyche’s Magnetic Field is a vibrant collection...
Psyche and the Night Sky is created on a circular wooden panel with acrylic paint. The background is the night sky with blue nebulas floating around Psyche, which is cut out of a constellation map.

April 9, 2021

Psyche and the Night Sky

Aarti Patel April 9, 2021 Major: Mechanical Engineering Genre/Medium: Acrylic painting done on a wooden panel with a cut out collage of a constellation About the work: Psyche and the Night Sky...

April 7, 2021

Rock n’ Rug

BRIANNA YOUNG April 7, 2021 Major: Graphic Design Genre/Medium: yarn and gridded latch hook rug canvas About the work: The small area rug I crafted is a rough, oblong circle shape that stretches...
A tan 36'' x 36'' painting with a sheet of brass and aluminum. In the left hand top corner, details of the Psyche asteroid are written underneath the brass sheet. On the top right corner is a sheet of aluminum, and beneath it is a slab of dark grey sand. These elements represent the possible make-up of the Psyche asteroid. In the left hand bottom corner is a diagram of the trajectory of the Psyche mission launch . On the bottom of the image is a 16 Psyche symbol, which consists of a half circle dome with a star on top.

April 5, 2021

Movement at Psyche

Zarina Karapetyan April 5, 2021 Major: Art History Genre/Medium: texture, sand, metals About the work:  This piece was inspired by the idea of research and note taking: the beginning stages...
An abstract, split image painting is of the Psyche spacecraft’s multispectral imager and X-band high gain antenna in space collecting data from the Psyche asteroid.

April 2, 2021

Some Science of the Psyche Mission

Aurelia L. Waller April 2, 2021 Major: Astronomical and Planetary Sciences Genre/Medium: acrylic Paint, Black Canvas (Stop Motion Video, BandLab, GarageBand, iPhone)- for the Aston Motion Video...
A paper lightbox of the Psyche logo that is divided into multiple layers, which indivudually appear to be abstract shapes. When viewed from the front, the layers line up to depict the Psyche logo. The lighting causes the box to go from a lighter shade in the top left to a darker shade in the bottom right.

March 31, 2021

Psyche Logo Lightbox

Daniel Zepeda-Cuba March 31, 2021 Major: New Media Design Genre/Medium: Laser Cut Paper About the work: For my project, I decided to create a laser-cut paper lightbox of the Psyche logo. My intention...
An animation is of the Psyche spacecraft in orbit. A wheel spins to create an illusion of motion.

March 26, 2021

In Motion

Siena Smania March 26, 2021 Major: Astrobiology Genre/Medium: animation via zoetrope About the work: When I was a child, my family used to travel a lot. Whenever we went to a new place, we were...