MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS & LAYOUT DESIGN FOR SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ARTICLE
CLIENT
Scientific American
ART DIRECTOR
Jen Christiansen
BACKGROUND
Now Medical Studios teamed up with Scientific American art director, Jen Christiansen, to create these medical illustrations and layout for their article titled, “The World's First Virus-Proof Cell, with Redesigned DNA, Is About to Meet the Test of Its Life”—written by Rowan Jacobsen.
ARTISTS
Annie Campbell
VISUAL DEVELOPMENT
We’ve always found it useful to see the process of how other people create things. Here are some behind the scenes snippets and work in progress pieces that might be of interest to you.
If you want to learn more about our techniques for creating our content, check out our education channel Learn Medical Art.
Step 1
We had a lot of elements to introduce as part of this story and it was important to help tier the information as the reader absorbed it all. Our first step here was to make sure all of the key players were present in the layout and that the information flowed well before we polished the illustrations.
Step 2
Because this article was aimed at the widest audience possible we wanted to develop a simple and clean style for the components that you would see on the page. We refined the character designs at this stage.
Step 3
Working with Jen we were given a larger layout to implement her art direction and feedback notes. Here, we were able to tier the story better and group the information into easily digestible segments.
Step 4
After implementing Jen’s art direction we dived into 3D and developed the rest of the assets that you would see in the final layout.