M-Philly Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Hi All, Hope you're all doing well! I'm looking to compile as many visual aids, charts, infographics, instructions with images, or any other graphics related to cluster headaches. I'm a senior art director who's been working in medical advertising for over 10 years now and I'd like to start transitioning into a more medical illustration role. Advertising has been wearing me down for quite some time now and I'd like to shift more towards academia and advocacy. So I want to start by redesigning existing material and getting feedback for a subject that I'm all too familiar with. I'll be doing some gathering on my own but any links you can share would be much appreciated! -Megan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHfather Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Hello, Megan. I hope this works out for you! The only existing graphical things I can think of are the things you can find with a straightforward Google image search. There are several large surveys of people with CH, one done around 2011 by Todd Rozen and others, and another from fiveish (??) years ago by Larry Schor and others. I think you'll be able to find these by googling. They have some graphics, but I'm thinking might be a lot of information in there that could be converted to the kinds of graphic formats you mention. ClusterBusters has led a recent large-scale study that I don't think has been published yet. I'm not sure how much that study is focused on the use of psychedelics to treat CH; the Rozen and Schor ones were most about demographics and how people experience CH. I'm sure you're also aware that there are several books at Amazon about understanding and treating CH. I don't know how much they use graphics (I feel pretty sure that they will have the usual ones -- a brain map showing the hypothalamus; a chart of differences between CH and migraine; some kind of symptom list), or how much you might find there that you could treat graphically. Finally, there is some amazing artwork illustrating the experience of having a CH attack or being a person with CH. I have seen that in various places, but can't say where you might find it (maybe it will also come up from a Google image search). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M-Philly Posted Friday at 01:33 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 01:33 AM @CHfather Thank you! I'll look into it! And I'll share my work as I go along. In the meantime I'll just share this purely artistic rendition I did after my last major cycle. I know it doesn't have the signature droopy eye but I wanted to convey how much pain I get behind my eye. https://www.instagram.com/p/C1tI2uBN7R4/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHfather Posted Friday at 02:59 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:59 PM I am very curious to look at your work, but because my daughter has CH, I try to avoid the more vivid reminders of what it's like. I wish you the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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