The classes were carried out on Aug. 22 (Thursday), 23rd (Friday) and Sept. 25 (Wednesday) as a 3-day intensive course. The instructors were the following seven: Koji Nomura Sensei, Yuji Yagi Sensei and Hiroshi Wada Sensei from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Makoto Kobayashi Sensei and Yoshihiro Miwa Sensei from the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Masataka Watanabe Sensei from the Office of Public Relations Science Communicator, Sayoko Tanaka Sensei from the School of Art and Design. About 20 students from the School of Art and Design, as well as from the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, the College of Geosciences and College of Physics took part.
Both the art and science students formed groups under each science instructor, and undertook the themes, “Expository Illustration” and “Art-Oriented Illustration”. This year, we briefly took on the topic of science writing as well. After group discussions based on each student’s draft of ideas, illustrations using Adobe Illustrator were created. At the end, each group gave a presentation. The objective of this class was to effectively visualize science, by having the art students collaborate with students from other fields.
The idea of the exercise was for the art students to acquire practical communication skills to comprehend the subject of the visual design and to apply the themes and views of science to their artworks, and for the students who are studying science to expand their knowledge and experience in visual expression techniques and acquire the communication skills required to collaborate with illustrators and designers in the future. (Tanaka)


Exercise Theme: From the onset of the earthquake to actually feeling the tremor. (Illustration with emphasis on explanation.)
Exercise Creator: Yuji Yagi. Illustration Creator: Emi Kobori (4th Year at School of Life and Environmental Sciences, College of Geosciences)


Exercise Theme: The biology of ‘the smaller the ice the faster it will melt’. (Illustration with emphasis on explanation.)
Exercise Creator: Hiroshi Wada. Illustration Creator: Junko Takanaka (3rd Year at School of Art and Design)