Using Illustration and Design to Translate Complex Subject Matter
with Simone Williamson
The Workshop
Are you an artist passionate about the technical subjects of our world (like science, research, law, politics) and want to integrate these subjects into your creative practice? Or maybe you’re an academic interested in learning how art can help bring your research to a wider audience? This workshop is for you - a space where the right (creative) and left (analytical) hemispheres of the brain merge.
The Details
In this 90-minute session, you’ll learn illustration, design and comic-based approaches for translating technically dense material into clear, visually compelling stories. I’ll share examples from my work collaborating with environmental lawyers and scientists in the neurological and quantum fields, showing how visual storytelling can open doors for public understanding and engagement. We'll explore how drawing, design and metaphor can make complex ideas graspable without oversimplifying them.
Together, we’ll work through sections of a scientific and legal brief, pulling out core ideas and translating them into visual language. You’ll develop a knack for distilling dense information and building narrative flow, deciding what to draw from, what to simplify and what to amplify.
Whether you’re an artist, a researcher or simply someone drawn to complexity, you’ll leave with visual storytelling tools for using art to educate, provoke curiosity and make big ideas feel human. No prior drawing experience needed, just curiosity, openness and a willingness to explore.
What you’ll need:
Bring whatever tools you would use to create art, whether that be a physical sketch pad, an iPad with Procreate downloaded, Adobe Suite tools like Photoshop or Illustrator and so on.
Dates: 12th February 2026. 7 PM CET. Online.
Using Illustration and Design to Translate Complex Subject Matter
with Simone Williamson
The Workshop
Are you an artist passionate about the technical subjects of our world (like science, research, law, politics) and want to integrate these subjects into your creative practice? Or maybe you’re an academic interested in learning how art can help bring your research to a wider audience? This workshop is for you - a space where the right (creative) and left (analytical) hemispheres of the brain merge.
The Details
In this 90-minute session, you’ll learn illustration, design and comic-based approaches for translating technically dense material into clear, visually compelling stories. I’ll share examples from my work collaborating with environmental lawyers and scientists in the neurological and quantum fields, showing how visual storytelling can open doors for public understanding and engagement. We'll explore how drawing, design and metaphor can make complex ideas graspable without oversimplifying them.
Together, we’ll work through sections of a scientific and legal brief, pulling out core ideas and translating them into visual language. You’ll develop a knack for distilling dense information and building narrative flow, deciding what to draw from, what to simplify and what to amplify.
Whether you’re an artist, a researcher or simply someone drawn to complexity, you’ll leave with visual storytelling tools for using art to educate, provoke curiosity and make big ideas feel human. No prior drawing experience needed, just curiosity, openness and a willingness to explore.
What you’ll need:
Bring whatever tools you would use to create art, whether that be a physical sketch pad, an iPad with Procreate downloaded, Adobe Suite tools like Photoshop or Illustrator and so on.
Dates: 12th February 2026. 7 PM CET. Online.
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