Scientific Illustrator and Designer
Owner and sole proprietor, A. K. Bruce Design, Brisbane, CA

Visual consulting studio specializing in the creation of custom scientific artwork using both traditional and digital techniques.

• Work closely with clients one-on-one to conceive, draft, and produce illustrations and graphics for projects including journal publications, PowerPoint and poster presentations, web graphics, and journal cover art.

• Team with communications groups to layout and design informational materials to educate investors, doctors, and patients on current research and how their products and treatments are designed to work.

• Provide support for the publication of clients’ research by preparing print-ready manuscript figures and graphical abstracts in compliance with journal specifications.

Sr. Graphics Specialist
Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

• Collaborate with departments throughout the company, including Research, Legal, and Corporate Relations, to produce scientific illustrations, animations, publication figures, web graphics, and other materials.

• Provide presentation support to company executives for scientific conferences and corporate meetings.

• Partnered with teams of scientists, clinicians, and biostatisticians to develop large, complex, data-driven presentations (1000+ slides) for several FDA advisory committee meetings in Washington D.C. that ultimately led to drug approval.

350 Bay Area
Produced graphics to be used on banners, table cloths, brochures and other materials for the 2018 Rise for Climate SF march.

Heritage Malta, Bighi, Malta, Architectural Conservation, Documentation Division
Assisted with detailed measurements and AutoCAD drawing and documentation of the Historic Lazzaretto Hospital (built in 1643) in Malta.

Bachelor of Science in chemistry
University of California, Davis

Illustration and graphic design studies
Academy of Art University, San Francisco

Painting, art history, photography
University of California, Berkeley Extension

• Broad background in and passion for visual storytelling
• Extensive experience in time management and prioritization
• Digital and traditional illustration
• Graphic design
• 2D animation / video compositing
• Comprehensive software experience
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office
- Blender
- PyMOL

Scholarly journals that have featured my work as cover art
• Cell | Cancer Cell | Cell Genomics | Cell Reports
• Chemical Science
• CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics
• Immunity
• Journal of Molecular Biology
• Nature | Nature Chemical Biology
• Science Translational Medicine
• Trends in Biochemical Sciences

BioImages 2022
Best of Show and Premier Award

BioCommunications Association’s annual visual media competition celebrating outstanding work in the life sciences and medicine.

Images from Science 3
International juried exhibition featuring “extraordinary examples of images that reveal science in new and unique ways.” In partnership with the Rochester Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Art Science Fusion Project
Group exhibition developed by Gabriele Seethaler, unveiled during the 5th International Annaberg Conference, Schloss Goldegg, Salzburg, Austria. Additional exhibitions included showings at L’Uniaversità di Roma La Sapienza, and Harvard University, Boston, MA.

Association of Medical Illustrators, professional member

BioCommunications Association, member