This is the digital home of my illustration projects, scientific visualisations and media, and other bits and pieces. Thanks for visiting!
Illustration: My illustration work involves a mixture of traditional media, digital imaging and silly ideas, manifested in formats such as a children’s picture book.
Science media: My science-related projects include an educational poster about slime, images for the covers of scientific journals, animations about bacterial behaviour, and websites.
Here’s an animation that illustrates how bacteria form a biofilm. I started working on this quite some time ago… Just recently I joined five separate bits of animation together and added some explanatory text (and now it’s longer, so you … Continue reading
First things first: Alf Red’s Broccoli Rocket! Imaginatively written by Simon Clearwater, and illustrated by me. This book features vegetables, rockets, bunnies and inventive children. It’s quite silly. The illustrations were done using pencils and watercolour, plus a generous helping … Continue reading
This image illustrates recent research at the Centre for Microbial Innovation (at the University of Auckland), which demonstrated that – somewhat surprisingly – sound has a significant effect upon the growth and metabolism of yeast cells. The image is a composite of electron microscope imagery and 3-d models.
The research is published here: R. Aggio, V. Obolonkin, and S. G. Villas-Bôas., 2011. Sonic vibration affects the metabolism of yeast cells growing in liquid culture: a metabolomic study. Metabolomics.
