This cover submission didn’t get accepted either. Top row of micrographs represent the palate: left is control, right is cleft. The bottom row of micrographs represent hydronephrosis: left is control, right is experimental.  I could look up the conditions that prevailed, but that would be “work”.  ha ha.

This was a pretty outrageous cover submission which wasn’t accepted by the intended journal, but never the less it has come “curb” appeal.  I don’t at this point remember which article it was to accompany, or even which journal it was submitted to. I do know it was made for a friend at UNC.  And while I have no time at all….  i would be willing to make a cover for some scientist somewhere who was interested in artsie craftsie – but totally scientific illustrations.

It is always a little heartbreaking to create a cover submission and have it end up a reject. But rejection is part and parcel for being in science and art both.  Below is a fun idea I had (and a variation or two) that apparently didn’t fly with the editors (LOL). And the top image actually did make it into press. Nature structural and molecular biology, 2010, v 17, no 10.