Dr Gill Brown is a former geophysicist, then freelance graphic designer and illustrator, based in London and working in the field of scientific visual communication. In 2019, Gill was awarded a PhD from University of the Arts London, investigating scientific conceptual figures through graphic design practice. She then put her research into practice in the following ways:
- Scientific visual communication workshops – created specifically to help scientists improve their visual communication. The workshops covered the basics of good graphic design practice and provided hands-on experience of creating editable, adaptable figures in Adobe Illustrator and in designing scientific research posters using MS PowerPoint.
- Freelance graphic design and illustration – working with scientists to help them create figures, graphical abstracts and illustrated information sheets.
- Ongoing research – writing and presenting about practice-based research in the arts and the graphic design of scientific visual communication. Gill continues to pursue her interest in visual research and analysis, and the relationship of scientific visual communication to visual culture in general.
In 2017, as part of her PhD research, Gill began a long-running collaboration with members of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, at King’s College London. That collaboration, and Gill’s further work with KCL, is documented in full on a dedicated website, Neuroscience & Graphic Design.
To get in touch with Gill, you can email her directly:
gill@graphical-science.com
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