Illustration of a cloud illustrating research concepts

Services

Offering dynamic, engaging and fun illustration tailored to your project. Whether you’re part of a research team needing visuals to enhance your message, or you’re hosting a workshop or seminar that could benefit from live, on-site drawing, this service brings ideas to life through vibrant illustration.

Illustration of a robot illustrating scientific concepts
Cartoon-style text that reads 'Back to School'. The design includes a yellow star on the left and a pencil with an eraser on the right, on a black background.

Live illustration is great for distilling complex information into easily read, digestible pieces of visual information.

Edinburgh cased illustrator Cassandra Harrison

If your event includes a collaborative element such as break out rooms, it’s common to wonder what was discussed in the other room. At conferences with this design, participants often feel a strong sense of FOMO—curious about what gem of information or uplifting message they might have missed. Many of the events I have illustrated use this setup. I can help you consolidate this information into one illustration that everyone can enjoy and learn from. This is also a great way to show your participants that their ideas are being heard.

  • “Cassandra is extremely dedicated, talented and a great communicator. The final illustrations were beautiful and powerful. They drew on and synthesised a substantial text and will be a fantastic dissemination tool beyond this. Thank you again for everything – I hope we can work together, again!”

    Lara Santos Ayllon, Researcher, Edinburgh University

  • “Cassandra created two fantastic illustrations for our research. One from a briefing and another during a workshop. We were all really impressed with her skill in depicting complex ideas simply”

    Prof Liz Forbat, Researcher

  • "Your illustration is a beautiful memento of the day and was a helpful visual prompt for the wrap up conversation with the young participants."

    K.D (Edinburgh International Festival)

  • “Cassandra was wonderful to work with. Her creativity and attention to detail inspired me. Her input into my project was invaluable.”

    Claire Stott, author and PSA

  • “Cassandra created two fantastic illustrations for our research. One from a briefing and another during a workshop. We were all really impressed with her skill in depicting complex ideas simply”

    Prof Liz Forbat, Researcher

FACT: IF INFORMATION IS PRESENTED IN EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND EXCITING VISUALS, PEOPLE REMEMBER A WHOPPING 80% OF WHAT THEY SEE

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FACT: IF INFORMATION IS PRESENTED IN EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND EXCITING VISUALS, PEOPLE REMEMBER A WHOPPING 80% OF WHAT THEY SEE ☺

Who is it for?

If you are planning a conference, a summit, a workshop, a discussion, an AGM, a wedding, a business launch event or more, this might be what you need to add that zingy wow factor to your event.

What’s included?

Beautiful and unique hand-drawn illustration of a mug

A 30 minute ‘getting to know you’ conversation

What is your aim for these illustrations? Do you want to capture the buzzing atmosphere? Do you want main points to be distilled into easy to read information? Will I be drawing main speakers and their messages? Will there be break out groups? This is a great time for you to tell me all about your event. Date, venue, fees and contracts will be confirmed.

Playful hand-drawn illustration of a computer

Tech check

Before your event if I am working remotely and digitally. On the day, I arrive ready to go with pens or iPad and connecting cables in hand. For digital work you will need to provide the projector. For hand drawn work, I provide all the goods.

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Files + licensing

Directly after the event you will receive your images plus licensing agreement which gives you the right to use the images for social media, websites, reports, marketing and more. If you have chosen digital illustration, you will receive a time-lapse video of the artwork.

Edits

1 round of edits for digital work. Did I not get that technical term down correctly? Does an image need to be shuffled to the right? Now is your chance for a few tweaks to make this work shine.

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Meeting Summaries

Illustrator for meeting summaries

  • This option is great for AGMs, Research groups, and other smaller meetings.  Send a recording of your meeting and I will create an illustration for you that captures the main points, where you've been and next steps. 

  • £450

Research

Illustrator for research papers disertations

  • Each piece of research is complex. I start with a 30 - 45 minute video chat to discover the main points needing to be illustrated for thesis work and more.  Visual information creates a strong impact for academic work, emphasising important discoveries, specific technologies, executive summaries and complex data. I have worked with several universities (UCL, Edinburgh University, Birmingham University, Napier and Stirling University to name a few) and their researchers to make visually memorable hundreds of hours of research. Dense text can lose people. Let me help your report to harness the most important resource: Time and Attention.

    Working with a university and budget constraints?  I love a big juicy project and I love learning new things. Some of my favourite pieces are based on academic research projects.

  • Starts at £650

Websites

Illustrator for websites

  • Do you need some fabulous, attention grabbing images for your website?  The illustration above is Header and Button image for Research In Practice: Contact After Adoption. This is one of my favourite illustrations and clients.  How can I help you jazz up your website?  Contact me if you would like a free consultation discussion.

  • Starts at £750