Hand-drawn Illustrations Research Articles

Constructing an Endless Interior

Manfredo Tafuri, writing on Piranesi’s prison etchings, contests that from the period of the Enlightenment, the understanding of the city-as-inside and nature-as-outside has been permanently altered: the built environment is now everywhere, and nature subjugated within its global system. Through a series of increasingly complex artificial habitats, this ongoing terrestrial project of global interiorisation has extended outwards, culminating in the extraordinary vernacular space architecture of the International Space Station (ISS). On the one hand, this nascent cosmic extension of Piranesi’s labyrinth represents the summit of Earth’s interiorisation—a process that extends to incorporate its orbital systematisation and the transposition of its instrumentalised environment. However, as this essay illustrates, the built environment’s access to outer space is not only the acme of terrestrial interiorisation but also the genesis of a potentially limitless, unbuilt interior project. This visual-based research essay deploys a series of hand-drawn illustrations that reference and pay homage to the engraved plates of the Carceri series and .mile-Antoine Bayard’s illustrations that accompanied Jules Verne’s proto-modern fiction. Concrete poetry mediates and informs the relationship between these illustrations and the written text. This doubly illustrative methodology seeks to synthesise and augment the abstract aspects of the essay visually. The purposeful ambiguity inherent in the referenced graphic style of the selected illustrators advances the viewer’s interpretation. As per its graphic precedents, it provides a tangible spatial reference for the progressive conceptual interiorisation of outer space as a consequence of the built environment’s expansion beyond terrestrial horizons.

Analyzing the Visual Identity of Diptyque Paris

This journal explores the impact of visual identity design on consumer perception and brand recognition, using the luxury brand Diptyque as a case study. The study analyzes how Diptyque’s synchronized design elements—such as logos, typography, color palettes, and illustrations—communicate the brand’s personality and influence customer loyalty. The research aims to provide insights for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) on building effective visual identities by analyzing Diptyque’s successful branding strategies. The qualitative research method involved expert interviews and literature reviews. Experts in branding and design were interviewed to assess the effectiveness of Diptyque’s visual identity in conveying brand values. The study found that Diptyque’s distinctive oval-shaped logo, minimalist black-and-white palette, and hand-drawn illustrations play a significant role in establishing the brand’s luxury status and emotional appeal. Consistency in applying these design elements reinforces brand recognition and loyalty. The findings suggest that a well-defined and cohesive visual identity is crucial for brands to stand out in a competitive market. Diptyque’s example offers valuable lessons for MSMEs on how to use design elements strategically to enhance customer perceptions and build lasting brand presence.

Imaging analysis of pneumonic plague infection in Xizang, China: a case report and literature review

BackgroundPlague is an acute infectious disease caused by the Yersinia pestis. Historically, it has been a major pandemic with high mortality rates, known as the “Black Death” in the 14th century, which resulted in millions of deaths in Europe. With increasing economic prosperity, more and more people are traveling to Xizang. However, this trend also hides significant safety hazards. Currently, there are few recent reports on plague, especially those with imaging manifestations available. In this study, we report the detailed clinical and radiological data of the patient with pneumonic plague in Xizang, China, in 2023.Case presentationWe report a case of pneumonic plague in Xizang, which occurred in a herdsman living in an area where dead marmots were found. The patient presented with symptoms such as fever, hemoptysis, dyspnea and coma. Chest computed tomography (CT) scans showed multiple nodules distributed in the central regions of lung lobes, consolidation distributed in secondary pulmonary lobules, and had a gravity-dependent distribution pattern. These imaging findings were consistent with pulmonary hemorrhage and diffuse alveolar damage. Despite emergency treatment, the patient died within 48 h of admission. Through retrospective medical history investigation, laboratory examination and autopsy, the final diagnosis was confirmed as pneumonic plague.ConclusionPneumonic plague is the most deadly infectious disease, and its pathological features mainly include damage to the alveoli, pulmonary hemorrhage, and pulmonary edema. Corresponding to CT, it manifests as acute and rapidly progressing pneumonia, alveolar damage, and pulmonary hemorrhage. The value of this article lies in the completeness and typicality of the imaging data, vivid hand-drawn illustrations of transmission pathways, and comprehensive literature review, all of which serve to enhance public understanding of plague and play an important warning role.

Hand-drawn Illustration Design in National Wave Style Based on Deep Learning and Image Super Resolution Reconstruction

Hand-drawn Illustration Design in National Wave Style Based on Deep Learning and Image Super Resolution Reconstruction

Deep Learning-Based Hand-Drawn Illustration in Packaging Design of Cultural and Creative Products

Packaging design is a critical component of product marketing and branding, encompassing the visual and structural elements that encase and present goods to consumers. The hand-drawn illustration is a timeless art form that embodies the unique style, skill, and creativity of the artist's hand. This paper presents a novel approach to deep learning techniques for enhancing packaging design through the classification of hand-drawn illustrations. The proposed model is stated as a Weighted Augmented Deep Generative Network (WADGN). The proposed WADGN model uses the augmentation network for the generation of the augmented images for the creative products. With the augmented images features are extracted in the hand-drawn illustration of the products. The extracted features are implemented with the weighted augmented feature vector for the application of the generative deep learning network. The proposed WADGN model uses the feature vector of the deep learning model for the design of creative product design. With the deep learning the creative features of the hand-drawn illustration are classified for the creative package design. Simulation results demonstrated that proposed WADGN model higher performance than the conventional technique such as CNN, LSTM and SVM classifier. The proposed WADGN model achieves the ~21% higher performance than the SVM, ~16% than the LSTM and ~9% improvement than the CNN model.

“TIPS” and Technical Nuances for Digital Illustration in Neurointerventional Surgery

Medical illustrations represent a precious resource for learning surgical anatomy and surgical techniques, allowing preoperative and postoperative reviews. As traditional hand-drawn illustrations are difficult to use and expressing the area of neurointerventional surgery is time-consuming, we proposed methods for neurointerventional surgeons to create digital illustrations (DIs) for neurointerventional surgery using the iPad-exclusive Procreate application (Savage Interactive, Hobart, Australia). Dedicated "digital pens" were created and used for each endovascular device, creating straightforward representations of neurointerventional procedures and changes over time. DIs in neurointervention easily depict changes to highlighted surgical scenes for various devices with complex configurations and structures. DIs are also versatile, allowing easy intrainstitutional and interinstitutional sharing and discussion of technical tips on the manipulation of medical devices (coils, catheters, stents, etc.) among neurointerventional surgeons worldwide. DIs can be applied as educational tools not only in neurointerventional surgery, but also in craniotomy surgery and for surgical records from other specialties.

Computer-aided design of hand-drawn art food packaging design based on a deep neural network model

Background: The term “hand-drawn art food packaging design” (HAFPD) refers to a novel and creative method of food package design that makes use of hand-drawn illustrations, typography, and graphi graphics. This kind of design technique allows for a more individual touch, giving the package a special feeling that might strike a more meaningful connection with customers. Materials and Methods: Hand-drawn art on food packaging is a powerful tool for brand identification and awareness since it helps communicate the company's values, personality, and history. When it comes to developing HAFPD, computer-aided design (CAD) may be a very useful tool. The study proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based CAD system for HAFPD. Results: The approach blends conventional hand-drawing processes with modern digital tools to empower designers to produce package designs that are both aesthetically pleasing and practically viable. Conclusion: To track duration statistics for watch design using CAD software, designers can use a time-tracking tool or plugin. These tools can track the time spent on different tasks, such as sketching, modeling, rendering, and refining the design in food packaging. The proposed technique offers designers an effective and simple way to produce distinctive food packaging designs while preserving the authenticity of hand-drawn artwork.

Evaluation of a novel augmented reality educational tool and its effects on patient experience: A randomized controlled trial.

Patient education is an essential element of the treatment pathway. Augmented reality (AR), with disease simulations and three-dimensional visuals, offers a developing approach to patient education. We aim to determine whether this tool can increase patient understanding of their disease and post-visit satisfaction in comparison to current standard of care (SOC) educational practices in a randomized control study. Our single-site study consisted of 100 patients with initial diagnoses of kidney masses or stones randomly enrolled in the AR or SOC arm. In the AR arm, a physician used AR software on a tablet to educate the patient. SOC patients were educated through traditional discussion, imaging, and hand-drawn illustrations. Participants completed pre- and post-physician encounter surveys adapted from the Press Ganey® patient questionnaire to assess understanding and satisfaction. Their responses were evaluated in the Readability Studio® and analyzed to quantify rates of improvement in self-reported understanding and satisfaction scores. There was no significant difference in participant education level (P = 0.828) or visit length (27.6 vs. 25.0 min, P = 0.065) between cohorts. Our data indicate that the rate of change in pre- to post-visit self-reported understanding was similar in each arm (P ≥ 0.106 for all responses). The AR arm, however, had significantly higher patient satisfaction scores concerning the educational effectiveness and understanding of images used during the consultation (P < 0.05). While AR did not significantly increase self-reported patient understanding of their disease compared to SOC, this study suggests AR as a potential avenue to increase patient satisfaction with educational tools used during consultations.

'There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence': Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections.

What is to be gained by studying visual observation in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections? What can we see of the pandemic through diarists' images and words? Visual methods were part of the plural research strategies of social research organisation Mass Observation (MO) in its first phase, when it was established in 1937, but remained marginal in relation to textual research methods. This continues with the post-1981 revival of the Mass Observation Project (MOP), with its emphasis on life writing. With wider shifts in technology and accessibility, however, even when they are not solicited, photographs now accompany MOP correspondents' submissions. In MO's substantial COVID-19 collections, images appear in or as diary entries across a range of forms, including hand-drawn illustrations, correspondent-generated photographs, creative photomontages, and screengrabs of memes. In addition, diarists offer textual reflections on COVID-19's image cultures, such as the role of photographs in pandemic news media, as well as considering how the pandemic is intersecting with the visual in more abstract ways, from themes of surveillance and 'Staying Alert' in public health messaging to internal pictorial imaginaries produced as a result of isolation and contemplation. Positioning these materials in relation to wider patterns in pandemic visual culture, including public photographic collecting projects that make explicit reference to MO as their inspiration, this article considers the contribution of the visual submissions and image-rich writing in MO's COVID-19 collections to the depiction of a virus commonly characterised as invisible.

Rethinking the Ph.D. dissertation in botany: Widening the circle.

Rethinking the Ph.D. dissertation in botany: Widening the circle.

The Roth Net at 40 years: celebrating the spirit of innovation

The Roth Net at 40 years: celebrating the spirit of innovation

Confined. designed. but credited?

confined. designed. but credited? was created to illustrate the history, or lack thereof, of women in the graphic design profession. This zine explores the contributions of 10 key women to the field of graphic design. Analyzing and comparing the texts The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, and Alms for Oblivion by Ellen Mazur Thomson brings attention to the disparities and struggles of career women. Beauvoir’s comment on existentialism focuses on navigating individualistic thinking with the tension between free will and societal constraints. Despite oppression and sexism, multiple women achieved professional status as graphic designers. However, women were forced into more “feminine” specialties at design schools such as the Bauhaus and/or were “lost” to history because, according to Thomson, they were not credited for their work. In addition, exploring the primary and secondary sources questions the definition of design itself and why the lack of clarity has made it difficult to identify women designers. Delivering this research in the form of a zine salutes one of the ways feminists communicate their views. The combination of photos, hand-drawn illustrations, and digitally rendered shapes &amp; textures help point to the main ideas of each article. Overall, the zine captures key concepts of limitations within a male-dominated world, as well as the capacity, competence, and innovation of women in design. Created for the Feminist Theories and Foundations course (GEND219) and informed by my program, Bachelor of Design.

ГРАНИЦЫ ЖАНРА: ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ В ДЕТСКОМ НАУЧНО-ПОПУЛЯРНОМ ИЗДАНИИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ КНИГИ ПУТЕШЕСТВИЙ А. ЛИТВИНОЙ И А. ДЕСНИЦКОЙ "ТРАНССИБ. ПОЕЗД ОТПРАВЛЯЕТСЯ!")

Scientific illustration as an independent genre represents the specifics of the concept of “scientific” that has developed over three centuries of the development of the scientific method of European classical natural science. The basic characteristics of the scientific method and its private tools (including illustrations) are impartial, non-judgmental, non-subjective, emotionless modeling of the objects being studied and depicted. Illustrated popular science publications for children, as a tool of non-formal education with a supposed dual addressing, find themselves on the boundary line between scientific and educational illustrations. The complexity of the format is that it must be scientific, children educational, entertaining and popular at the same time. In handdrawn illustrations for such books, two very different ways of presenting the material can be distinguished. The article discusses the status of illustrations in terms of the possibility of classifying them as scientific in a children’s guidebook, made in a sketchy manner.

An Anatomical Illustrated Analysis of Yoga Postures Targeting the Back and Spine through Cadaveric Study of Back Musculature

Back pain is a debilitating lifestyle disease that affects a large proportion of the world’s population at some point in their life. Absences from work due to this have a huge economical impact on the patient, their employer and the healthcare providers who seek to support their recovery. Unfortunately, back pain is often resistant to treatment and intervention, therefore alternative therapies such as Yoga are being explored. Within the literature, five Yoga postures were identified to be associated with reduced back pain in patients suffering from Chronic Lower Back Pain (CLBP). To aid anatomical analysis of these Yoga postures, a detailed cadaveric dissection of the back was performed to understand the action and activity of the musculature in these postures. In order to cohesively present the findings, unique hand-drawn illustrations were used to depict the musculature found to be highly active with each Yoga posture, with the erector spinae muscles appearing prominent throughout. The combined approach of using hand-drawn illustrations with cadaveric dissection to present the anatomical analysis has allowed a seamless understanding of complex anatomical concepts alongside the nuances of intricate gross anatomy. This study highlights the importance of the inclusion of cadaveric dissection as a pedagogical tool in medical curriculm through exploring the anatomical basis of Yoga, also allowing the possibility of using the workings of Yoga to aid anatomical teaching. A greater understanding of this may help guide personalised Yoga regimes, which may allow alternative therapies to become integrated into the primary care setting.

Orbital surgery: a conceptual approach

This 2nd edition of Orbital Surgery is actually three books in one. It's an overview on orbital diseases, an anatomical atlas, and a surgical atlas. Using a conceptual model, along with more than 800 photographic and hand-drawn illustrations this book provides the reader with a clear description of the factors to consider when deciding on the proper approach to lesions anywhere in and surrounding the orbit. There's also an online site with full text and image bank. Illustrations by Bruce Stewart. FEATURES: * Offers a philosophy of approach to the surgical management of diseases of the orbit * Over 800 illustrations, 600 of which are in full-color * On-line component includes full text and image bank. * Takes a decision-making approach to approaching orbital lesions

Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture

Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture

Cloud and Weather Symbols in the Historic Language of Weather Map Plotters

AbstractWeather mapping began in the nineteenth century when telegraphs began sending simultaneous observations of conditions at the surface of Earth to weather stations around the world. Indicating the complexity of the clouds and weather seen at a site needed a common naming system and simple symbols that were independent of language, since telegraph signals crossed international borders. The first symbols representing clouds were abstracted and stylized versions of their artistic representations in naturalistic drawings and paintings. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, photography began to replace hand-drawn illustrations. Before the advent of color film, black and white photographs were sometimes even reproduced in colored inks using new mechanical printing processes. Nineteenth-century meteorologists developed symbols for various cloud types in the form of simple lines and curves suggestive of the pictures. In contrast, weather symbols (for rain, snow, fog, hail, etc.) were drawn largely from a lexicon of nonalphabetic written symbols, such as punctuation marks. Skilled map plotters used these simple symbols, suggestive of complex weather and clouds, to transfer telegraph and Teletype codes to visually meaningful hand-produced maps. The craft of manual weather map plotting reached an apex in the 1940s–60s. With advances in digital and satellite technology and automation of surface weather observations, the symbols used in traditional weather mapping have largely disappeared from daily use.

Extreme premaxillary protrusion in the king-of-the-salmon, Trachipterus altivelis.

The king-of-the-salmon, Trachipterus altivelis (Lampriformes), has an unusual set of oral jaws which allow it the ability to protrude the entire upper jaw, containing the premaxilla and the maxilla bones, to extreme distances. Here, we provide a short description of the cranial anatomy and mechanism of jaw protrusion in T. altivelis using hand-drawn illustrations (by KF), supplemented by CT-scans. We then place the protrusion abilities of T. altivelis into context by comparing anatomical jaw protrusion with protrusion from other members of the Lampriformes, other unrelated species with highly protrusile jaws, and unrelated species with more stereotypical amounts of jaw protrusion. Through these comparisons we demonstrate that T. altivelis is indeed, capable of some of the most extreme premaxillary protrusion as of yet discovered, even when taking into account the extreme morphological modifications that facilitate said protrusion. That is to say, T. altivelis can protrude the premaxilla farther than one would predict from the length of the ascending process alone.

The other office.

Across recent decades, profound changes in the practice of medicine have been accompanied by parallel developments in the daily mental efforts of medical professionals. Using visual metaphors and hand-drawn illustrations, the author explores the evolution of one physician's brain over the past 25 years. At the completion of training, the patient-practitioner relationship, medical knowledge, and care decisions dominated clinician thought, time, and effort. During the 1990's, the growing constraints of third-party payers and government regulations presented new challenges to delivering relationship-based care. Over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) has added further cognitive complexity, disrupted human relationships, and contributed significantly to the current epidemic of clinician burnout. Solutions to these challenges include rethinking education, documentation, professional standards, institutional barriers, and regulatory mandates. It is important to pursue all solutions with the underlying premise of protecting healing relationships as the foundation of clinical care.

IStoryline: Effective Convergence to Hand-drawn Storylines.

Storyline visualization techniques have progressed significantly to generate illustrations of complex stories automatically. However, the visual layouts of storylines are not enhanced accordingly despite the improvement in the performance and extension of its application area. Existing methods attempt to achieve several shared optimization goals, such as reducing empty space and minimizing line crossings and wiggles. However, these goals do not always produce optimal results when compared to hand-drawn storylines. We conducted a preliminary study to learn how users translate a narrative into a hand-drawn storyline and check whether the visual elements in hand-drawn illustrations can be mapped back to appropriate narrative contexts. We also compared the hand-drawn storylines with storylines generated by the state-of-the-art methods and found they have significant differences. Our findings led to a design space that summarizes 1) how artists utilize narrative elements and 2) the sequence of actions artists follow to portray expressive and attractive storylines. We developed iStoryline, an authoring tool for integrating high-level user interactions into optimization algorithms and achieving a balance between hand-drawn storylines and automatic layouts. iStoryline allows users to create novel storyline visualizations easily according to their preferences by modifying the automatically generated layouts. The effectiveness and usability of iStoryline are studied with qualitative evaluations.