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In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible

With lots of research, arrows, and an inviting color palette, artists helped transform complex research into useful information.

https://www.wired.com/story/in...-science-accessible/

The nasal swab and where it goes:

https://medivisuals.com/produc...ronavirus-swab-test/

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But the microscopic structures inside cells are smaller than the wavelengths that create visible light, so they don’t have their own color. As a result, no standard color code for them exists. “

Which makes it even more amazing that they can see it at all.

Wow!

Slightly off topic - There are now only three accredited medical illustration programs in the country, and they are all graduate degrees. One of them is where I got mine (U of I medical center in Chicago) back then (early 80’s) U of I and one other university offered undergrad degrees in medical illustration, and there were more schools that did the graduate degree. Pretty sure it’s considered a bit of a dying profession, or at least there isn’t as much work for somebody in that profession anymore, my job as medical illustrator and photographer at a medical school was mostly doing by hand things that almost anybody can do using a computer and digital cameras/phones now. Charts and graphs, newsletter layout, brochure design, tons of slides for lectures, and darkroom work. Very little of the work was cool illustration projects, and that was true most places. There are still cool illustration projects out there, but you don’t need a full time medical illustrator on staff to do them most places. When I left, they turned the position into a graphic designer position, which paid less, and I’ll bet they don’t even have that anymore.