Vivid Biology is a tiny company of designers and illustrators who specialise in biomedical sciences. With degrees and masters in biomedical sciences, and a flair for Photoshop and Illustrator, we're experts at helping people to explain things that are too small to see.
We work with individual academics, biotech companies, and research institutes, to help bring their science to life. We also provide specialist support to medical communications, marketing teams and larger design agencies.
We're really good at ...
Turning science
into art
We've got over ten years of experience distilling research papers into artwork for seminar posters, journal cover artwork, and marketing images. We extract the key messages from research papers, come up with visual concepts to represent them, then work these into beautiful compositions.
Diagrams that stand out
We're good at creating figures that need to explain science without looking too 'scientific'. We inject just enough creative flair to give figures a unique visual identity without compromising on the underlying scientific information.
Specialist support
We've worked with larger design and digital agencies to provide specialist support with biotechnology clients. We're good at making sure that the scientists are happy that the details are right, whilst still providing great visuals and following design and brand standards. We've helped with technical figures, concept sketching, and animation storyboarding,
Meeting deadlines
We once redrew and typeset over one hundred data figures for an academic manuscript in a weekend. We've got years of experience with redrawing figures, which means we're pretty quick at them.
Creative Illustration
Distinctive artwork that makes science stand out
Technical Diagrams
Unique technical illustrations that clearly communicate how things work
Science Artwork
Exhibition artwork for public engagement
Product Design
We design prints, clothing and gifts
Who we've worked with
Some of the companies, institutes and researchers we've worked with
Companies
- Canopy Biosciences
- Oxford University Press
- eLife
- Oxford Pharmagenesis
- The Lancet
- Mendeley
- Healx
- Wordbird
- Hindawi
- Learning Science
- Equinox Graphics
Institutes
- The Gurdon Institute
- The Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
- The Francis Crick Institute
- The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
- The Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- Bristol BioDesign Institute
- Bristol Population Health Science Institute
- Occidental College
- Vanderbilt University
Researchers from
- University of Cambridge
- University of Bristol
- University of Oxford
- Karolinska Institute
- University of Aalto
- MIT
- Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Kings College London
Things that we think are important ...
Artistic licence not artistic laziness
We like a challenge. We believe it’s possible to make great visuals whilst still getting the science right. If we think that there's a better way to show something we'll let you know.
Finding a way to work with the budget
We find creative ways to work within small budgets, and work hard at being imaginative with larger ones. This means that we can work with clients both large and small.
Making great work
Making work that we're proud of, and that our clients love, is our most important measure of success.