by Marlin Peterson | Mar 30, 2010 | Science Illustrations
This series of R’s is the evolution of a logo I designed for a client called Rev’t Resource. It is a company that does the engineering busy work for the pipe and duct systems in buildings. Pipes, blueprints, and 3-dimensional were the themes to employ. ...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 22, 2010 | Science Illustrations
Cassava is a profoundly vital plant that can take credit for sustaining millions of people (i.e. poor farmers and their families) every day across the tropics, especially in Africa. Africa produces more than the rest of the world combined for many reasons: it grows...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 22, 2010 | Science Illustrations
I made this graphic to showcase the incredible evolution of venom-injecting structures that these major groups of arachnids have independently arrived at. The scorpion thru the telson, or the tip if the “tail”; the wolf spider (you can tell by the...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 19, 2010 | Science Illustrations
This extremely tiny spider (~1mm across!) is called Silhouettella assumptia and is from an elusive and little known family of spiders called Oonopidae. They are known to lay people as the “goblin” spiders, but to latin linguists in labcoats the Oonopidae...
by Marlin Peterson | Jan 19, 2010 | Science Illustrations
I am so excited that my habitus illustration of the Neuropteran Ceraeochrysa lineaticornis was chosen for California Academy of Science’s December 2009 newsletter. I did the image for Norm Penny while doing an internship with the CAS, where I also rendered a...
