Van Lanschot Bankiers NV

Hans Bocktingconceived and designed 15 years of Van Lanschot Bankiers NV Annual Reports, incorporating poetic texts to elevate and embolden the thematic root of his designs__

EARTH.   The temporal world. Third planet from the sun. Dwelling place of mortal beings. Once imagined to be a disk supported by four elephants standing atop a giant sea turtle.The quest to expand visible horizons continues.
Nine planets, maybe ten.*
                Origins: scientific fact or imaginative

This is an excerpt from a longer piece composed for the 1992 Van Lanschot Annual Report. In 2006 astronomers demoted Pluto to the rank of 'dwarf planet.' Pluto was discovered in 1930 and designated the 9th planet in our solar system. There are currently upwards of 44 'dwarf planets' (2009). A planet is now defined as, among other things, ?an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the force of its own gravity.?It is unlikely that there will ever again be more than 8 full-fledged planets.
Meghan Ferrill