Bryan Christie Design transforms complex ideas into compelling images. By combining strong aesthetics with a focus on research and accuracy, we provide all you need to create unforgettable visualizations. BCD will help you find the best way to convey your concept, and then will do what it takes to realize it. In addition to illustration and animation, this might include conducting supplementary research, writing supporting text, and considering the combined impact of the illustration, design, text, and layout.
- Bryan Christie
- is an award-winning illustrator whose work has been featured in such publications as WIRED, Newsweek, The New York Times, Esquire, and Field & Stream. He began his training in 1996 at the illustration and animation studio SlimFilms, picking up skills from his father, Andy Christie, and Pete Samek. From there he took a position as assistant art director at Scientific American magazine, where he designed and illustrated covers and editorial content. Bryan was impressed by the distinctive aesthetic of the magazine from the '50s and '60s; its influence can be seen in the development of his own unique style. Bryan's work covers a broad range of topics, from the astronomical to the gastrointestinal, the microbiological to the nanotechnological. But whatever the subject matter, his images strive to represent ideas, not just objects. Illustrating the unseeable is his particular specialty. Much of the work done by Bryan Christie Design is executed in 3-D modeling software; however, the treatment is designed to let visual realism take a backseat to more conceptual truths.
- Emily Cooper
- contributes a strong background in Earth Science to BCD, as well as an illustrative sense informed by a persistent interest and delight in the natural world. She appreciates the process of investigation necessary to create an accurate and elegant image, often combining research and writing skills with illustration to create the most incisive possible presentation of ideas.
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John Grimwade; gorgeous, elegant, sumptuous graphics
Karl Gude's blog; one of two blogs Bryan reads
Street Anatomy; the other one
