There’s something appealing about space artwork, whether it’s the cover of a zany science fiction novel, or promotional art cooked up by NASA. Recently an art blog from Polish concept artist and illustrator Maciej Rebisz caught my eye. Titled Space that Never Was, it’s an engrossing collection of illustrations that look at what humanity’s future could have been in the solar system.
Based in Warsaw, Rebisz works for a CG animation studio called Platige Image , and he’s worked on projects ranging from Cyberpunk 2077, the European Space Agency’s short film The Ambition, to various card and board games such as Android Netrunner, Star Wars LCG, Core Worlds, and others. In an email to The Verge, he explained that he’s been drawing seriously...