With constant creativity happening at Cognition Studio, we would like to highlight some recent projects, from Gene Icons to Pro Bono projects.
Genome Alberta Facebook gene icons second series of gene icons created for Facebook application. This project is done in conjunction with Don Barnett of Nekton Design and represent a full family of icons created as a team with Cognition Studio. If you have a Facebook account, take some time to check them out for yourself and give the gift of a gene to a friend.
JEH November 2008 editorial cover design receives instant accolades for pushing the envelope in concept development. When this article hit our desk, the topic of public backlash against science’s modifications of food based on research, struck us as a good topic to get graphic with the imagery. We explored a variety of visual ways to depict this broad topic: purchasing direct from the farm, genetically modifying food, to scientific cultivation of food. But we wanted a visceral gut reaction to the cover, one that made the viewer instantly say “oh god! don’t do that to my food!!”
“Please look into submitting your cover of the November issue of Environmental Health Journal for a possible design award. This may be the best cover for a magazine that I have ever seen.”
“That was a spectacular cover that you designed for the November Journal of Environmental Health. We print approximately 90 monthly magazines here at Layton Printing and this is by far the best cover I have seen in my 23 years of working in the printing industry. Great job!” — David Gonzalez (La Verne, CA)
JEH December 2008 editorial cover design depicts the growing trend in green burials. This topic is new, fresh and hotly debated in the public and environmental health industry. With public water supply easily contaminated by embalming fluid, casket material run-off and other toxins, there is a surge in pushing the public to understand the growing necessity of not only living a natural organic life, but also a natural organic afterlife.
JEH January/February 2009 editorial cover design depicts the transmission of pathogens on large urban universities in the United States. With invisible microbes and heavily touched public surfaces, the transmission of bacteria, viruses and other communicable diseases is always a concern. Especially to collegians who are might be immunosuppressed due to poor diet, sleep and lack of exercise.
PRO BONO: Illustration of Tam Lin the Elf Knight featured in Seattle Children’s Theatre Magazine. This illustration was created and donated to the Seattle Chamber Music Society to advertise their family concert event that features a reading of this children’s fairy tale accompanied with classical music performance. Targeting the illustration towards children and featuring an approachable character was a new venture for SCMS.
PRO BONO: CD Package Design for Sacred Harmonies Music-Thanatology Harp Progam at Providence. We were given the opportunity to create this wonderful packaging design for Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett’s Spiritual Care Department. This harp compilation is given to families and patients who are terminally ill or at end of life.
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