About Zukan Studio

Mission

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Our mission is to create illustrations and interactive web-based visualizations that effectively communicate scientific ideas. We believe that visual representations of these ideas are essential in communication of a researcher's work.

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The Team

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Aoi Hunsaker

Aoi creates scientific illustrations at Zukan Studio. She currently works as a member of a hearing science research laboratory at the University of Washington. Her commissioned illustrations have been used in various poster presentations, conference talks, peer-reviewed publication figures, and websites.

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Maho Sasaki

Maho creates websites and interactive visualizations at Zukan Studio. She has over 6 years of experience with custom website and interactive data visualization for laboratories and other academic organizations.

What's Zukan?

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Zukan (図鑑ずかん) is a Japanese word for pictorial encyclopedia. An example of a modern take on a zukan can be seen  here.

Location

Zukan studio is a scientific illustration and web design LLC based in Seattle. In addition to coordinating online, we are happy to discuss our services in person if you are local!

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