Topography Infographic

This one was a real challenge in a few ways.  I needed to visualize actual terrain in 3D and show how that relates in 3D with a topological map.  I scanned the map, found the shader files from GIS (to define the elevation in the 3D program), and a satellite image of the Grand Canyon to colorize it.  Getting the three to align perfectly was a bunch of Photoshop scaling and nudging with transparent layers to get things just right.  My eyes started to cross but the result came out just as I wanted.  A simple demonstration, but I learned a little about the maps I carry with me on hiking and camping trips.  Another plus of creating info graphics.

Some Science Illustration

I'm so into scientific illustration.  These two are some simple concepts, for the wee people among us.  Infographics and educational material are really interesting design problems.  Seems to pull from many perceptual faculties at once.  You can never talk to yourself.  Always from the point of view of someone who wants to learn.  Very similar process to designing any layout actually.  And these days, you have to keep up a variety of aesthetics to keep visual interest.  So I went pirate mappy with the map concepts.  With the fossils, I wanted something more museum display.  Sometimes a clean presentation is a nice background to a rather dirty old subject.