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Ali Molloy
@oioimolloy.bsky.social
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Creative thinker and tinkerer, often found curiously lurking between the sciences and the arts.

PT Graphic Design lecturer @UoP

https://www.alimolloy.com
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👀 Look at this awesomeness I received this great Zine 'Creativity Starters' from @angelachick.bsky.social. A perfect antidote to my own creative block! Totally made from the heart and full of fun ♥️

#zine #artzine #illustration #comicart #zinemaker #creativeblock #zinemaker #comic #illustrator
Two pages: DIY drawing and encouraging you make a bad drawing Two page prompt to encourage you to go for a walk and draw what you see. A short biog about Angela chick with a little figure drawing of her with a contraption on her head to generate ideas. What is a creativity starter. Details about her own experience and what to expect.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Great fun running an Accessible Science Figure Design workshop at @unibirmingham.bsky.social! We looked into #Gestalt & #UX in the context of #curbcutting -accessibility helps everyone. More context here: tinyurl.com/fig-design TY @cassiebakshani.bsky.social 💜 #AccessibleDesign #SciComm #AMR
best practices: Use Hierarchy. Shapes piled in size order with 'use hierarchy' in large text. Smaller text, 'you'll probably read this about drawing attention later on'. Gestalt principles diagram: 8 visual examples showing how we perceive and group visual elements, including proximity, similarity, closure, and symmetry. Essential concepts for accessible science figure design Lateral gene transfer diagram. on white background - simplified to show the transformation, transduction and conjugation. The chaos from the examples submitted from the workshop participants. 4 egs of bad colour, too much info and no whitespace
June 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Had great fun playing with audio inputs with @touchdesigner.bsky.social at The Play Office at the weekend.

More info about the workshop here: www.play-office.com/post/touch-d...

Looking forward to tinkering more
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Here's an E. coli experiment from POSE #southsea. I've been experimenting with mark-making as an aside lurking on the computer work.

I intend to create a full set of patterns from the #WHO bacterial priority pathogens list.

#AMR #sciart #ecoli #antimicrobialresistance #WHOBPPL #publichealth
roughly sketched oblong shapes with multiple strands coming off of them representing E. coli. Bright turquoise background with green outlines and white bodies. all repeated to form a pattern.
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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WIP. Knots made from Patient Info Leaflets (PIL) portraying the Gordian Knot of tackling #AMR, & bacterial nucleoids. Influenced by ‘Bacterial nucleoid is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’ Andrei Kuzminov.
#WorldAMRAwarenessWeek
#WAAW2024
#Genomics
#AMRAwareness
#DrugResistance
#sciart
Red and blue print of a coiled sctructure of a nucleod which forms a 'rosette' structure of 4 curly lobes with a circular RNA in the middle. Not scientifically accurate Close up: Cropped photo of cordage of perscription patient information leaflets forming a ring that could represent RNA Paper cordage knot with 4 loops tied with a central loop. strands made from perscription inserts. 4 loops of paper cordage made from patient information leaflets found inside perscriptions. they're connected by a central circle that represents the RNA.
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM