21. 015b - Blood

Step 01
tHE idea

The Objective

The scientific journal editor proposes illustration services to authors who wish to publish in their peer-reviwed journal.
As scientific graphic designer, I then intervene to adapt the author's graphical abstract or figure to journal guidelines and style.

Step 02
tHE brief

Editor

Blood - American Society of Hematology
Peer-reviewed journal - IF: 20.3

Article

Journal style

Editor's guidelines focus on the format of the figure: 492 px x 343.35 px (formatted in picas).
The Avenir font is preferred and should not be smaller than 8 pt

Colors

Colors should be adapted for color-blind people: elements that need to be identified or differentiated need to be seen by at least the most common types of color blindness (Protanopia and Deuteranopia).

Step 03
tHE abstract

The tension rises in leukocyte extravasation

In this issue of Blood, Wang et al identified a critical role for the tension-sensitive cation channel PIEZO1 in leukocyte transendothelial migration (aka diapedesis or extravasation). Their detailed analysis provides new mechanistic data to fit the PIEZO1-mediated calcium influx into a sequence of endothelial signaling events that controls the extravasation process.

Step 04
tHE sketch

Step 05
Final image

Thank you