In our galaxy far away is a beacon, a sort of remote space lighthouse that guides interstellar ships as they make their way through the unpredictable corners of the cosmos. So goes Beacon 23, the sci-fi thriller series based on the short stories of author Hugh Howey, who tapped us for their second season to design an alien.

Following the lighthouse-in-space analogy, we conceptualised this extraterrestrial with extra tentacles, the coiling strands mirroring those of a jellyfish and its bulbous, cephalopod-like head taking cues from squid and octopuses. Did it need to make sense from the perspective of an earthly human? Absolutely not. That’s what makes this mysterious floating being as beautiful as it is enigmatic.