About

Mission


To create clear and engaging illustrations, animations, and designs for the scientific and health care industries, in the service of increasing medical knowledge and improving public wellness.

 

Services


Michelle (Reinke) Davis, M.S., creates clear and engaging 'biomedical visuals' -- illustrations, animations, and designs to satisfy complex visual needs in the science and health-care fields.

The subject matter and formats available include:

  • Anatomical / Cellular / Physiological
  • Surgical
  • Editorial
  • Patient-Education

Media used in projects are flexible and can use one or more of the following:

  • Traditional: pencil, pen and ink
  • Flat Digital: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
  • 3D and Animated: Cinema 4D, AfterEffects
  • Interactive: Flash, HTML/CSS

From initial meeting through final rendering, the client-oriented production process assures that the layout, media, and content of a given work is tailored to each individual project's needs and goals. A summary of the production process is as follows:

  • Discussion: initial client meetings establish the needs and goals of the project.
  • Research: technicalities, procedures, and/or anatomy specific to the project are researched.
  • Sketches: depending on the project, one or more sketches (illustration) or storyboards (animation) are developed to the client's satisfaction.
  • Final: upon agreement, production and final rendering carries the project to completion.
Pricing is determined by a variety of factors, including time, media, complexity, and end usage.

Please send an email or use the Contact page with queries or projects in mind.

 

Bio


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Michelle (Reinke) Davis graduated with a Master of Science from the Medical College of Georgia's Medical Illustration program in the spring of 2010, and she is a proud member of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Although she has always had a fascination for visually depicting the natural and biological, it was not until she entered college at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, that she 'discovered' the field of medical illustration. She had been immediately intrigued about this practical fusion of art and science and completed her education there with a B.A. in graphic design and a B.S. in neuroscience.

In her spare time, Michelle can be found lifting weights, attempting a new recipe, playing her flute for local churches, and improving her ballroom dance coordination. Considering these passions for both physical fitness and the arts as a whole, it is even more fitting that Michelle's work deals with visualizing the human body, how it works, and how it can work better. Indeed, special interests within the field include lifestyle diseases and exercise physiology, as well as women's health and neuroscience.

Michelle believes strongly that medical illustrations can be useful and impactful, and eagerly looks to the future to all the illustration projects yet to be embarked on.