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4.6 Billion Years

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A meditative project on time and space. 

From the designer Alex Seth's website: "The acryllic exterior labels key dates in Earth’s history to narrate the layers of time. Color coding is also used to illustrate key epochs.

Each page of the book contains a grid made from 250,000 squares, each square is a representation of 1 year. If each page is 250,000 years, we have 9,600 pages to amount to 4.6 Billion years."

 

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Pages from 4.6 Billion Years, a book design by Alex Seth visualizing Earth’s geological timeline through color-coded grids, where each square represents one year.
Pages from 4.6 Billion Years, a book design by Alex Seth visualizing Earth’s geological timeline through color-coded grids, where each square represents one year.