An interview with medical illustrator, Avesta Rastan

TODAY’S TOPIC:

Annie and Emily sit down for a lovely interview with the wonderfully talented medical illustrator, Avesta Rastan. Avesta is a medical illustrator and multimedia artist with lots of industry experience. In this interview, she talks about her education at the Biomedical Communications program, working for various companies as a medical illustrator and life as a freelance medical illustrator.

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About Avesta:

Avesta is a medical illustrator and multimedia artist with lots of industry experience, she currently works as a multimedia production artist at W20 Radius Digital Science.

Avesta also runs her own educational channel, Lumi Science (@lumisci). Lumi Science is all about illustrating scientific topics through educational visuals. Topics include; academic research, public health, and the climate crisis.

Have a listen to her interview where she talks about her education at the Biomedical Communications program, working for various companies as a medical illustrator and life as a freelance medical illustrator.

You can read more about Avesta in the press here:

International Women's Day: Illustrating the Covid-19 pandemic

Designing A COVID-19 Infographic In Her Free Time Which Educated The World

Avesta Rastan on combining Art and Science in Biomedical Communications.

Why Science Needs Diversity

Connect with Avesta:

Avesta’s website: www.azuravesta.com

Follow Avesta on Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn

Lumi Science on Instagram

Resources:

Biomedical Communications Course in Toronto

Invivo Communications

W20 Radius Digital Science

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Annie Campbell

Annie is a medical illustrator and animator who runs Now Medical Studios with her business partner, Emily Holden. Her experiences as an art director, project manager and multimedia artist for various studios and companies in the USA and UK have provided her with a broad range of skills and expertise that she now brings to every project. Annie firmly believes in life long learning and sharing.

One of her passions is sharing the business of medical illustration with younger artists embarking into the field. She founded and is an active contributor of Learn Medical Art with Emily, a channel dedicated to creating and sharing tutorials, articles and resources from the field.

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