Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista by Cynthia Turner is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award di Ferru in Grafica Informatica Competition Category.
FerruGrafica Informatica· 2024
Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista
Client: Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio
A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Grafica Informatica Category
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The Design
About Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista
Cum'è entità d'un altru mondu, sti minusculi miccanismi di cunsegna sò affascinanti in a so varietà di forme è strutture, è ancu in a so relazione cù l'ambiente acquosu induve ponu spustassi per furnisce intelligentemente i so carichi à a destinazione ghjusta. E nanoparticule sò i nanuvettori più cumuni per e terapie oculari per via di a so biocompatibilità è di a so capacità d'esse caricate cù farmacie è terapie geniche per attaccamentu chimicu, integrazione, o incapsulazione in u nanuvettore. In sensu orariu principiendu da meziornu: nanopolimeru, nanoemulsione, nanomicella, è liposoma.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award di Ferru
Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Ocular Nanotechnology Illustrazione per Cuperta di Rivista hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Nanoparticles are 1 to 100 nanometres in diameter and have unique properties due to their small size and high surface area to volume ratio. Nanoparticles are the most common nanocarriers for ocular therapeutics due to their biocompatibility and their capacity to be loaded with drugs and gene therapies by chemical attachment, embedment, or encapsulation in the nanocarrier. Highlighting four types of nanotechnology-based ocular drug delivery systems delivering their payloads to the back of the eye, clockwise starting at noon: nanopolymer, nanoemulsion, nanomicelle, and liposome.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 431.8 mm width x Height 279.4 mm, 300 dpi, tiff
- Tags
- medical illustration, biomedical artist, visual science, ophthamology, nanocarriers, ocular drug delivery
- Production Technology
- Created using Cinema 4D, a 3D modeling program, 3D Models, and hand-painting in Photoshop, using a stylus and tablet on a Mac.
- Design Challenge
- Create accurate depictions of ocular drug delivery nanocarriers and arrange the four carriers in a pleasing composition that did not necessarily give one precedence in importance over another.
- Research
- The artist researched the morphology of the 4 specified nanocarriers and created accurate scientific visualizations of them. Each nanocarrier was separately modeled and imaged in a 3D program, and then brought into a Photoshop document. The composited tiff was finished by handpainting in Photoshop to reflect light from one element to the next to bring color harmony to the palette. Additional motion elements were painted to tie the composition together and lead the eye in reading the image.
- Inspiration
- An illustration for the cover of EyeNet, the magazine of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, for their annual meeting and special annual issue. I created the nanocarriers individually in Cinema4D, a 3D software program, and then composed them in Photoshop on a background of a field of the rods and cones cells found at the back of the eye. I enhanced the rendered 3D models by reflecting the colors from one into the other, and creating light effects to add movement and excitement to the composition.
- Project Duration
- The project was in development for two weeks at the artist's studio in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, USA.
- Operation Flow
- The Art Director requested an illustration with a science fiction futuristic feel to be used for their special annual issue, which is also released on the occasion of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual meeting and is used to brand the meeting.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Cynthia Turner, 2023
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Illustrator Cynthia Turner / Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio / Ocular Nanotechnology, 2023
Image #2: Illustrator Cynthia Turner / Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio / Ocular Nanotechnology, 2023
Image #3: Illustrator Cynthia Turner / Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio / Ocular Nanotechnology, 2023
Image #4: Illustrator Cynthia Turner / Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio / Ocular Nanotechnology, 2023
Image #5: Illustrator Cynthia Turner / Alexander and Turner Medical Illustration Studio / Ocular Nanotechnology, 2023
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