Vivid Biology ltd is on pause until 2028 whilst Claudia is living in Madrid, Spain. Claudia is still taking on design work as a freelancer.

Visual design for biomedical sciences

Visual design for biomedical sciences

Vivid Biology is a tiny company of designers and illustrators who specialise in biomedical sciences. With degrees and masters in biomedical sciences, and a flair for Photoshop and Illustrator, we're experts at helping people to explain things that are too small to see.


We work with individual academics, biotech companies, and research institutes, to help bring their science to life. We also provide specialist support to medical communications, marketing teams and larger design agencies.

Mendel 200 year anniversary cover

Cover artwork

Nanostrings

3m x 2m Exhibition Backdrop

O2 Room

Mural artwork

Synthetic Blood

SynBioExpo exhibition

Pharmaceutical medicine in the 2020s

Editorial image

Unravelling Brains

The research of professor David Nutt

Nature Genetics cover

Journal cover

ChipCytometry

Mitochondrial Chromosomes

We're really good at ...

Turning science into art

We've got over ten years of experience distilling research papers into artwork for seminar posters, journal cover artwork, and marketing images. We extract the key messages from research papers, come up with visual concepts to represent them, then work these into beautiful compositions.

Diagrams that stand out

We're good at creating figures that need to explain science without looking too 'scientific'. We inject just enough creative flair to give figures a unique visual identity without compromising on the underlying scientific information.

Specialist support

We've worked with larger design and digital agencies to provide specialist support with biotechnology clients. We're good at making sure that the scientists are happy that the details are right, whilst still providing great visuals and following design and brand standards. We've helped with technical figures, concept sketching, and animation storyboarding,

Meeting deadlines

We once redrew and typeset over one hundred data figures for an academic manuscript in a weekend. We've got years of experience with redrawing figures, which means we're pretty quick at them.

Creative Illustration

Distinctive artwork that makes science stand out

Mendel 200 year anniversary cover

Omer Cell cover

H2 Room

N2 Room

O2 Room

Bristol Biodesign Totem

Philosophy of science

Research Culture

Peer Review

Technical Diagrams

Unique technical illustrations that clearly communicate how things work

Sarcomere Figure

Nanostrings Diagram

Rareseq Diagram

Model Organisms Infographic

Cellatrix technical diagram

Nuffield Bioethics

eLife - Translational Research

miRNA CRISPR

miRNA qPCR

Science Artwork

Exhibition artwork for public engagement

Mitochondrial Chromosomes

Deconstructing C elegans

Meiosis in oocytes

ESCAPE dialogues

Colorectal cancer

Population Health Science Totem

Wendy Bickmore

Khadi Optogenetics press release

Steve Jackson

Product Design

We design prints, clothing and gifts

Who we've worked with

Some of the companies, institutes and researchers we've worked with

Researchers from

  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Oxford
  • Karolinska Institute
  • University of Stanford
  • University of Aalto
  • MIT
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute
  • Kings College London
  • CRUK Cambridge Institute
  • ETH Zurich

Biotech

  • Canopy Biosciences
  • Gensaic
  • Ernest Pharmaceuticals
  • Healx
  • Mendeley
  • ZuraBio
  • Alpine Immune Sciences
  • Cellarity
  • Genzada

Institutes

  • The Gurdon Institute
  • The Cambridge Stem Cell Institute
  • The Government Office for science
  • The Francis Crick Institute
  • The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
  • The Nuffield Council on Bioethics
  • Bristol BioDesign Institute
  • Bristol Population Health Science Institute
  • Occidental College
  • Vanderbilt University

Marketing & Advertising

  • Canopy Biosciences
  • Lato C
  • Equinox Graphics
  • Crucible Creative

Medical communications

  • Oxford Pharmagenesis
  • Wordbird
  • Twenty Pegs

Journals

  • Oxford University Press
  • eLife
  • Genetics Society of America
  • The Lancet
  • Hindawi

Things that we think are important

Artistic licence not artistic laziness

We like a challenge. We believe it’s possible to make great visuals whilst still getting the science right. If we think that there's a better way to show something we'll let you know.

Making great work

Making work that we're proud of, and that our clients love, is our most important measure of success.

Inspiring customer loyalty

Clients trust us to meet the deadlines that we set, find ways to work within the budget, and to always bring our best ideas to demanding briefs.

Contact Claudia by email

Vivid Biology ltd is on pause until 2028 whilst Claudia is living in Madrid, Spain.

Claudia is still taking on design work as a freelancer.

You can also email mail@claudiastocker.com