Dan Goods

During our second trip to NASA I was enthused and inspired by our conversation with Dan Goods. Often, the idea of being a graphic designer seems limited to commercial output, but after seeing the work that Goods presented, inspired me to thinking more broadly on the wide range of creative opportunities my skills can be applied to.

Dan Goods graduated from the Arts Center College of Design as a Graphic Designer and has now become a "Visual Strategist" at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and continues to do public and private art commisions around the world. He has worked on an array of projects including the eCloud sculptural installation at the San Jose airport. The eCloud emulates the volume and behavior of an idealized cloud by using polycarbonate tiles that are synchronized to real time weather around the world. 

For Goods, it is the ability to visually communicate these vast and intangible concepts to the general public to allow them to experience these scientific theories they may not otherwise understand that is most important. He takes his role as a designer, a visual communicator, to a whole knew level. Not only offering the audience digestible information, but an experience to remember.