If you’re a frequent reader of the blog, you’ve probably realized that microbes are everywhere and they do all sorts of things on earth. They can make peppers spicy, turn snow pink causing it to melt faster, and ferments bread dough to make sourdough.
Since the blog is now three (!!) years old, it’s about time I thought about a logo. My drawing skills are normally stick figures and lopsided circles so I needed some help. Who better turn to than my friend, scientist, and artist, Tyler Ford. I wanted to play with the tagline “exploring the microbial world around us” so I gave him some embarrassing things I drew myself including various microbes and the earth as rough ideas. (You would think that after graduate school, I would be able to kind of draw a microbe.. but no.)
We went through a few iterations and it was cool to see them transform through the iterations. From a super complex menagerie of microbes to a simpler microbial world containing continents made of budding yeast, a rod bacterium, and a chain of cocci bacteria. It most definitely is a microbial world!
If you’d like to keep up on science from a cartoony perspective, follow Tyler on Instagram or on his website.
