Science Wall Art

Science Wall Art

By Simon Tyler

Science wall art is a broader category than it sounds. It covers everything from motivational posters with Einstein quotes to genuine scientific visualisations printed at wall scale. The difference between these extremes is not just aesthetic - it's about whether the image actually contains any science, or just borrows science's authority for decorative purposes.

Axisophy makes prints in the first category. Every image begins with a genuine subject - a mathematical structure, an insect species, a Martian landscape, a piece of consumer technology - and is developed through research and illustration into something worth putting on a wall. Here is an overview of the collections.

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Mathematics

The Signature series includes several mathematical prints: Ulam spiral, Apollonian gasket, Fermat's spiral, Sacks spiral. Each is computed from real mathematical theory and printed at high resolution. These are not illustrations of mathematics - they are mathematics, made visible at a scale where the structure can be explored.

The Ulam spiral maps the prime numbers across a large grid, revealing diagonal alignments that have not been fully explained since Stanislaw Ulam discovered the pattern in 1963. The Apollonian gasket generates infinite complexity from a simple geometric rule. Fermat's spiral plots the golden angle - the same arrangement that governs seed packing in sunflower heads.

Mathematical Art Prints

Natural history

The Natural History collection includes the Bugs Series - 44 scientific insect illustrations adapted from the published book Bugs (Pavilion Books, 2017) - which covers beetles, butterflies, moths, flies and true bugs. It also includes the phylogenetic tree series, which maps the evolutionary relationships of 500 species each across birds, mammals, dinosaurs and insects.

Natural History Collection

Planetary science

The Radiance collection uses NASA HiRISE orbital photography of Mars - 25 centimetres per pixel from Martian orbit. Dune fields, impact craters, polar ice formations, volcanic terrain. The images read as abstract art until you remember they are documentary photographs of a real place 225 million kilometres away.

Radiance Collection

Technology history

The Gizmo collection: 54 precise technical illustrations of vintage technology from 1965 to 2000. The computers, synthesisers, boomboxes and calculators that shaped how people made music, wrote code, played and connected with the world. Adapted from Gizmo: Retro-Tech We Loved and Lost (Laurence King, May 2026).

Gizmo Collection

All prints from £50, free UK delivery. Browse at axisophy.com.

Simon Tyler is a designer, illustrator and author based in St Leonards-on-Sea. He is the author and illustrator of Bugs (Pavilion, 2017), Adventures in Space (Pavilion, 2018), Adventures on Earth (Pavilion, 2019) and Emergency Vehicles (Faber & Faber, 2020), and the illustrator of The World's Most Magnificent Machines (Faber & Faber, 2020). His forthcoming book Gizmo: Retro-Tech We Loved and Lost will be published by Laurence King in May 2026.