Illustration for an essay by Anna Enquist on how and why we tend to stay on the surface of a subject and don't dig a little deeper. People seem to choose 'fast' entertainment over depth because they are afraid for loneliness and impotence.
I drew this illustration for VPRO magazine. It's about the pharmaceutical industry, which, Professor in pharmaceutical biotechnology Huub Schellekens claims, only innovates products that are commercially lucrative.
Klassenzorg: illustration based on an article in Elsevier on how equal healthcare in the Netherlands where the poor 'pay less' isn't necessarily the right system.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have managed to develop technique to remote control cockroaches. They succeeded into steering them precisely along a curved line.
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Kwennie Cheng
posted on November 26, 2012 at 10:10
The Incredible Shrinking Man: illustration about a speculative design research on the consequences of downsizing the human species to 50cm in order to cope with the ever growing need for energy, food and space.
Pharmaceutical sushi: today more and more people are taking medicine on a daily basis. Next Nature thought of a pharmaceutical set of sushi that includes all your personal medication together. Expected to hit the shelves in 2020.
Supermarket: our next savanna: illustratie over het idee hoe het zou zijn als de supermarkten zoals wij ze kennen, langzaam veranderen in plaatsen waar we ons voedsel jagen en verzamelen.
Meat the expectation: illustratie over het opkomende idee om vlees te kweken in laboratoria, zodat men alleen het vlees kweekt dat ook echt gegeten wordt.