Flora

• Prize
  Honorable Mention in Other Graphic Design / Other Graphic Design
• Company
  Alexander & Turner Inc. Medical Illustration Studio
• Lead
  Cynthia Turner
• Team
  Cynthia Turner
• Client
  Alexander & Turner Inc. Medical Illustration Studio

Self-promotional work for pharmaceutical clients of a visual pun that gut flora might be blossoming actual flowers composed of bacteria. The gastrointestinal microbiota is fertilized by the primordial environment of churning gastric juices and springs forth a blossom from the microvilli found in the lining of the small intestine. The flower has petals of Bacteroidetes, Bifidobacteriam, and Enterococcus faecalis, pistils of Lactobacillus and stamens of Eubacterium perched on stalks of Escherichia coli. The flower itself emerges on stalks of Clostridium difficile and sporulating Bacillus cereus.

Cynthia Turner is a certified medical illustrator and a Fellow of the Association of Medical Illustrators. Her work focuses on the visual needs of the pharmaceutical and biotech research for their investor and advertising markets. Cynthia is the recipient of the 2014 Brödel Award for Excellence in Education for outstanding educational contributions to the profession of medical illustration and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award whose extraordinary lifelong contributions to the advancements of medical illustration and scientific knowledge have set the highest standards of the profession.