“There is no magic formula. It’s been about trust and relationships. Toby and I had never met before we started working together, but I had admired his work, and he’d obviously admired my work, and so what started for us was this trust and acknowledgement of each other’s expertise. So that’s what we wanted to communicate a little bit today, and then have an opportunity for people to start meeting each other, and start talking about what their interests are. We’ve got lots of illustrators who are interested in particular social issues or research issues, and we’ve got researchers who work in those areas – can we bring them together?” 

— Siouxsie Wiles

“Illustration is as much about drawing as it is about communication. It’s telling a story and a lot of the time, you’re acting as a translator. You’re taking some information and figuring out what it is that people need to know about it. It’s about getting across what the facts of the thing are, as well as why it matters – the feelings of it as much as the facts of it. The last year, for all of us, hasn’t played out in a way we would’ve thought. The path that’s opened up for me, in terms of doing science communications, is pretty new and unexpected, but exciting too. The more I go down it, the more opportunities open up.” 

— Toby Morris

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