Medical Illustration & Animation Sourcebook

Welcome to my new medical / popular-science illustration portfolio at the Medical Illustration & Animation sourcebook by the Association of Medical Illustrators: www.medillsb.com/kotrynazukauskaite

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, more work at www.kata-illustration.com

Seahorse: Gene Engineering

Oi chaps,

though this never got published, and is a bit beyond my "individual style" (no textures!), I was very happy to work with best minds in contemporary bio-chemistry / gene engineering directly (which doesn't happen too often).

Two color options: blue one stands for "technology", green one for "biology", and the whole concept of the seahorse was dictated by some scientist-slang. Empty space was designed for a specific layout full of titles, and other cover elements.

There was a lot of effort from all sides put into this project and though it never got published because of many reasons beyond control of the team I've worked with, I'm still a closeted geek, so this was fun anyway.

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2015, more at www.kata-illustration.com

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2015, more at www.kata-illustration.com

"Programmable Matter" (Tetris DNA) Art Print

A "Programmable Matter" (Tetris DNA) illustration, assigned by New Scientist in 2011, which was my break-through moment in illustration industry, now available at Society6 as an art print ("on popular demand", LOL) http://society6.com/kata_illustration/programmable-matter_print#1=1. Available as art print, framed art print, or stretched canvas of various sizes.

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2011

2014: a year of DNA technology breakthrough or just a massive coincidence?

Oi folks,
you know how much I love working on scientific illustration assignments, right? Well, in the beginning of 2014 I was involved in a few DNA scientific-editorial illustration projects for various popular science magazines at once, as breakthrough after breakthrough is being published on the genome technology, and it got really hard to manage to make all of those assignments different and do not mix the concepts while working on few similar ones at once. Here are my two favorite of the whole bunch:

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2014, for New Scientist, AD Ryan Wills, Title: Right on target: New era of fast genetic engineering (idea: new technology allows to target specific parts of the DNA very accurately).

©Kotryna Zukauskaite, 2014, for Scientific American magazine, AD Jason Mischka, Title: Gene Therapy's Second Act (idea: Sisyphean task to make a breakthrough in the gene therapy technology fighting constant setbacks in the laboratory)

For full credit and larger image please visit my editorial illustration portfolio at www.kata-illustration.com. No use without explicit written agreement signed by the author (me).