WOUND HEALING ILLUSTRATIONS
A collaborative series created for Arcadia University’s Physical Therapy Department.
This project commissioned a team of scientific illustrators to create a library of diagrams for university-level physical therapy students. My role included illustrating primary, secondary, and tertiary wound healing, as well as establishing a shared visual style. The completed series was later exhibited on campus, showcasing the value of collaboration in across university departments.
Role Collaborative Illustrator
Project Type Educational Design
Context Academic
PROJECT BREAKDOWN
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The Physical Therapy department's wound healing unit relied on diagrams pulled from various sources over the years, so no two illustrations shared the same visual language. None of the existing material matched how professors taught, leaving students to reconcile conflicting drawings. Without a unified set built around the department's own teaching approach, key details were interpreted differently.
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A group of scientific illustrators, myself included, started by building a shared base image to establish one consistent visual before any individual work began. Each illustrator then iterated from that base to complete their assigned anatomical drawings, keeping style, line work, and layout aligned across every piece. Once all sections were finished, we made further adjustments together so the full series read as one cohesive system.
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Students gained a unified set of illustrations built specifically around how the department teaches, not diagrams stitched together from mismatched sources. The project also demonstrated the value of cross departmental collaboration, pairing illustration expertise with the Physical Therapy department's instructional needs. It became a case study in how shared visual standards can strengthen comprehension across an entire curriculum.
