Cover Art
Prof. Brasino's past Cover Art.
Cover art has been my hobby and side gig on and off throughout my career. My undergraduate research advisor Marco Rolandi (now at UC Santa Cruz) suggested I give it a shot back in 2010 and I've been making it ever since. I'm looking forward to producing cover art for the Bacterial Biosensor lab in the future.
-Mike
2020 - Maciej Podgórski et al.
My last piece for the Bowman lab, this was an adaptation of the earlier design done for Parag, but highlighting the photo-controlled aspects of a new material.
2018 - Xinpeng Zhang et al.
I completed this image shortly after moving to Portland, for the Bowman lab back at CU. This was my first and only use of text in a cover image, but was necessary for the properties that the authors wanted to highlight.
2018 - Han Byul Song et al.
While I always enjoyed character modeling, this was my first chance to do it in a cover image! My graduate advisor later remarked that it looked a lot like my girlfriend (now wife). I guess she's always on my mind.
2017 - Parag K. Shah et al.
As word got out around the department that I made cover images, I was soon asked to make them by another group. This was the first of many images I made for the Bowman lab. Here I show the release of strain (from left to right) in Parag's polymer network. The gradient of color and use of light and fog effects makes this cover (in my opinion) one of the most pleasing to the eye.
2014 - Dan McKinnon et al.
This was the second image I made for the Dan in the Anseth lab. This one showing neuronal cells extending into a hydrogel designed to measure the forces and energies involved.
2013 - Dan McKinnon et al.
My cover artwork career at CU Boulder started when my lab mate Dylan Domaille (second author on this paper and now at Colorado School of Mines) brought me in to make this cover. Dan was so pleased he got us all coffee mugs with the image, which I still drink from today.
2011 - Chao Zhong et al.
My second cover from the Rolandi lab, this time showing pristine chitinous nano-fibers. Again, imaged with atomic force microscopy. While I experimented with adding additional details, we eventually went with this simple design.
2010 - Jessica Torrey et al.
The first cover image I ever made. Here I show a germanium nanostructure made by applying a high voltage between a moving metal tip and a silicon surface within organic-germanium gas. Most of the heavy lifting in the image is done by real atomic force microscopy data, which I rendered as an (exaggerated) color coded topography. All that was left to do is add the tip, field and depositing atoms. When the data is beautiful, the cover makes itself.
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201090133