Hi, my name is Isabel van de Stadt and I’m a graphic designer experimenting within a wide range of mediums and materials—including ceramics, photography, moving image and bookmaking. I like to work with a hands-on approach and an open mind. My work reflects my curiosity for themes like craftsmanship, physics, perception, and form. Currently I’m in my fourth year of the bachelor Graphic Design at ArtEZ Arnhem. 

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or want to say hello! I’m open for commisions and collaborations.

isabelvdstadt@gmail.com
@isabelvandestadt

Cosmic Vertigo
Book, 2024

This book features two datasets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, paired with poems from ‘Life on Mars’, a poetry collection from Tracy K. Smith, whose father worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. Black pages and white pages alternate throughout the book. The white pages contain a dataset of the 5859 exoplanets discovered to date. The black pages contain a dataset of false positive probabilities from the Kepler space telescope. I added these black pages with false positives to hint at the limits of knowledge and perception; while we expect there to be billions of planetary systems, we can only observe a fraction of what exists in outer space.

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