HUMAN NECK
Client: Dave Mazierski.
Media: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator.
Audience: Undergraduate students.
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Objective: Make a digital tonal illustration of the anatomy of the anterior neck and inferior lateral cervical region. A specimen from the J. C. B. Grant's Museum was used as the primary reference for this illustration.
Last updated in January, 2018.
TAGS
Biomedical Illustration, Editorial
Coronary Artery Disease
How heart attacks happen (and not just to elderly men)
CLIENT
Dr. Shelley Wall, Dr. John Wong.
COLLABORATORS
LAST UPDATED
December 2018
MEDIA
Photoshop, Illustrator.
FORMAT
Two-page spread in a popular science magazine.
About
Objective
Make an editorial spread that depicts the pathogenesis and clinical consequences of coronary artery disease.
Since CAD is so common, but has been popularly associated with older men, I also aimed to use inclusive language and patient representation in my spread. Special thanks to Colleen Tang Poy for helping me workshop the text.
Target audience
Educated lay audience.
Process
1. Preliminary research and concept art
2. Layout & composition
3. Rendering
​Despite there being numerous readily-available visualizations of CAD and atherosclerosis, most illustrations of the components of fibrous plaques are highly abstracted, and do not show 3D relationships. Using visual references and description, I tried to depict these structures with enough realism and that they could be easily identified and contextualized in 3D space.
Work-up to colour:
4. Final layout & composition
References
Agur, A. M. R., & Dalley, A. F. (2017). Grant’s atlas of anatomy, 14th Ed. Philadelphia: Wolters-Kluwer.
Buja, L. M., & Krueger, G. R. F. (2004). Netter’s illustrated human pathology. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier. 29, 50.
Chilton, R. J. (2004). Pathophysiology of Coronary Heart Disease: A Brief Review. JAOA, 104(9), 55–58.
Krstic, R. V. (1991). Human microscopic anatomy. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 48-49.
Maas, A. H. E. M., & Appelman, Y. E. A. (2010). Gender differences in coronary heart disease. Netherlands Heart Journal, 18(12), 598–602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12471-010-0841-y
Sakakura, K., Nakano, M., Otsuka, F., Ladich, E., Kolodgie, F. D., & Virmani, R. (2013). Pathophysiology of atherosclerosis plaque progression. Heart Lung and Circulation, 22(6), 399–411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2013.03.001
Statistics Canada. (2018). Leading causes of death, total population, by age group and sex, Canada, annual. Geography: Canada. https://doi.org/10.1109/T-AFFC.2012.38
Suhalim, J. L., Chung, C. Y., Lilledahl, M. B., Lim, R. S., Levi, M., Tromberg, B. J., & Potma, E. O. (2012). Characterization of cholesterol crystals in atherosclerotic plaques using stimulated Raman scattering and second-harmonic generation microscopy. Biophysical Journal, 102(8), 1988–1995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2012.03.016
University of Ottawa Heart Institute. (n.d.). Coronary Artery Disease (Atherosclerosis). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2828-1
University of Ottawa Heart Institute. (2017). Acute Coronary Syndrome. https://doi.org/10.1177/0885066613503294
Wang, T., & Butany, J. (2017). Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Diagnostic Histopathology, 23(11), 473–478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpdhp.2017.11.009
Xu, S., Bendeck, M., & Gotlieb, A. I. (2015). Vascular Pathobiology: Atherosclerosis and Large Vessel Disease. In Cardiovascular Pathology: Fourth Edition. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420219-1.00003-3