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Cynthia Turner Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Cancer Assassin Self Promotional in Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Cynthia Turner for computer graphics, 3D modeling, texturing, and rendering design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Cancer Assassin Self Promotional by Cynthia Turner, designed for Alexander and Turner Studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Cancer Assassin Self Promotional
The artist sought to create a portrait of the dramatic moment the death grip of a Natural Killer T cell overcomes a cancer cell's defenses, memorializing a moment humanity desires. Cytotoxic Natural Killer T cells are cancer assassins that induce cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death known as apoptosis. Natural Killer T cells recognize specific sites on the surface of cancer cells called antigens, bind to them, and release biochemical proteins that form pores in the cancer cell's membrane and specifically induce the cancer cell to destruct.
About Cynthia Turner
Cynthia Turner is a certified medical illustrator and a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Her work focuses on the visual needs of the pharmaceutical and biotech research industry for their investor and advertising markets, including large scale illustrations for medical conference exhibitions and event and print collateral. She is known for creating striking visuals with clarity of message.
Award Record
This recognition makes Cynthia Turner a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2019 - 2020 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design Award
The A' Computer Graphics Design Award is an international competition recognizing good computer graphics designs by best computer graphics designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to computer graphics designers, 3D modellers, 3D artists and texturing artists from all countries. Typical entries include animations, simulations, game designs, virtual reality models, architectural renderings and infographics. The awarded computer graphics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/computer-graphics
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/95172
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/95172
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!95172
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/263303
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2LaPaFG
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cancer Assassin Self Promotional
- Function
- Self Promotional
- Category
- Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Entertainment and Arts
- Colors
- Black, Brown and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Alexander and Turner Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Cynthia Turner
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #95172
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image No. #1: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2019. Image No. #2: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2019. Image No. #3: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2019. Image No. #4: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2019. Image No. #5: Illustrator Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2019. Portrait Photograph, Josef Victor Stefanchik, 2019. Video Cynthia Turner, Cancer Assassin, 2020. Video Sound, Think Different, Composer Adi Goldstein/AGsoundtrax, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- People fighting cancer often want to know how to visualize fighting back. This is one visualization capturing the moment of cancer cell death, and the victory of the body's natural immune defenses, Natural Killer T cells. An entire branch of medical research focuses on amplifying and strengthening Natural Killer T cells' effectiveness.
- Inspiration
- The artist is a certified medical illustrator working in the advertising and marketing of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Self promotional work created for clients, and prospective clients, is a chance to promote the artist's creativity, artistry and storytelling skills in visual science.
- Research
- The artist researched the morphology of Killer T cells, cancer cells, and Killer T cells and cancer cells in a death struggle, by studying electron micrographs and written research. She then created 3D models of a Killer T cell, cancer cell, fracture explosion, and cell debris using Cinema 4D, on a Mac. The rest of the digital painting was completed by hand work of drawing and painting in Photoshop using a stylus and tablet, on a Mac.
- Challenge
- The artist sought to create a portrait of the simple but dramatic moment the death grip of the Killer T cell overcomes the cancer cell's defenses.
- Realization and Technology
- Created using Cinema 4D, a 3D modeling program, and Photoshop, on a Mac.
- Operation and Interaction
- This work depicts a frozen moment in time, memorializing a moment humanity desires.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was in development for two weeks at the artist's studio in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, USA.
- Specifications
- 17.5" x 12", 350 dpi, tiff
- Keywords
- medical illustration, biomedical artist, visual science, pharmaceutical advertising, biotechnology advertising
