Illustrator Carl Wiens has been quietly working away on a series of covers for the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Journal and the time has come to show off his work! Collaborating with creative director Paul DiNovo at Wiley and the journal's editor Brian Coughlin, Carl employed his strong conceptual style to create these powerful illustrations.
Below is just a sampling of what Carl has been up to for the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Journal.
'Revealed'. Combined with the use of an over-sized chart, the dramatic pulling back of the cloth to 'reveal' what's underneath adds to that feeling of 'something important is happening here'.
'Reverse Translation'. The hour glass, classic symbol of time passing was the perfect container to house this concept. The tangle of information represented in the top half is quickly 'filtered' through to result in positive real discoveries; reverse translation.
'Heart Failure'. The frenzied yellow and blue scribbles let us know that something is not as it should be. This conceptual piece is cleverly 'wrapped up' by use of the familiar EKG printout to spell out the title.
'Skin'. What better way to illustrate issues pertaining to skin health than to draw them right on the canvas of...skin? Aesthetically a lovely image on its own, it does double duty as a message board for the issue at hand.
'Designer Drugs'. The association between 'designer' drugs and the catwalk is cleverly taken one step further by building the models out of pills and chemical compound diagrams.
View more of Carl Wiens' illustration. Represented by i2i Art Inc.