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I was contacted by Peggy from Tufts University in Boston requesting a homepage image that captures the work of the university-based research centre. Tufts are one of the largest research centers in the world studying healthy aging and its relationship to nutrition and physical activity. The brief was to produce a design that included the various elements involved in the research and that sat well with their established website style.



Above is my initial submission (click for enlargement) that I produced after the sketch below had been accepted and approved. Usually I adhere pretty religiously to an accepted sketch but in this case things started to change when working on the artwork and I felt that the re-arranged elements just had more visual interest.



As it turns out the client preferred the original design, so I worked up the revised version below. Colours were then shifted more towards a blue which synched better with the website than the coral tones above.

I was contacted by Jennifer at Harvard Magazine requesting an illustration for a piece that focused on lyme disease and how it affects the body. Lyme is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States. In this case the client already had a concept in mind, the target on a torso, so it was a really a case of how best to realise it.

Two images for John Hopkins. The first is about scrambler therapy which is a technique used to offer relief from chronic pain which it does by blocking the ascending pain impulses to the brain. To get across this idea I used a straightforward interpretation of a raised hand holding back the negative impulses.

The second is about a protein that may be able to predict the onset of cognitive impairment years before symptoms emerge. I used the visual metaphor of a weather balloon as a predictor with storm clouds gathering in the head. Attached to the balloon is the protein structure used to identify forthcoming issues.

Sue at John Hopkins called with a request for two illustrations for the 'Medical Round' section of Hopkins Medicine magazine. One was about tissue changes in heart cells when they are in space and the other, seen here, about the link between certain gut microbes and stress-induced disorders such as depression.

Christina from The Reader's Digest called with a request for some new images to accompany an article about non-alcoholic fatty liver disease—what it is, risk factors, diagnosis and prevention. Here are some of the resulting illustrations.