To celebrate Science Day in India, Mumbai-based graphic designer Kapil Bhagat came up with a series of minimalist typographic posters featuring the names of famous scientists. Each name was designed in a way that it symbolized the invention, theory or achievement that the scientist is famous for.
For example, the “a” in Pythagoras is in the shape of a right-angled triangle. The “i” in Galileo is looking through a telescope. The “C” in Copernicus illustrates the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Check them all out below.
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the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum
of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
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in 1895, a breakthrough in medical imaging for which he received
the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
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