Name Don Dixon Role Artist | Movies Centered in the Universe | |
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Education University of California, Berkeley Books Foreign Exchange Handbook: Managing Risk and Opportunity in Global Currency Markets, Universe |
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Don Dixon (born 1951) is an American astronomical artist practicing space art in the tradition of Chesley Bonestell.
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Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, Dixon has created cover art for Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Astronomy Magazine, and many other publications. Dixon's paintings have been used to illustrate the covers of several science fiction books, such as the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and the Galactic Center Saga by Gregory Benford. He directed and co-wrote the immersive animated film Centered in the Universe, which premiered in 2006 at the Samuel Oschin Planetarium at Griffith Observatory, where he has served as Art Director since 1991. He is a founding member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and was elected a Fellow of that organization in 2000. He lives in Long Beach, California.

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