About the Medical Illustrator / Graphic Designer
Denise A. Wurl, MS, CMI is a graphic designer and board-certified medical illustrator. She holds a Master of Science in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences after completing additional studies in Germanic Languages and Literature at the Universität Wien in Vienna, Austria.
Early in her career, Denise spent over seven years as a freelance graphic designer creating logos and corporate identities, brochures, direct mail pieces and other marketing communication materials. Clients included Bank One, First National Bank of Chicago, Sears, and many other businesses both large and small and in various industries.
Starting in 1995, she was employed as Art Director for the Anatomical Chart Company in Skokie, IL. Some of her responsibilities included marketing creative services and customized anatomical charts to the pharmaceutical industry, advertising, product package design, catalog design and web site development.
Owning Bluestem Studio since 2001, Denise offers creative marketing communication solutions for print, web and animation with a specialty in illustration for the medical, scientific, and healthcare industries. She teaches the Instructional Design course in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois (Chicago).
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Denise’s
solid background and experience in the graphic arts combined with
her illustration skills and attention to detail make her a unique
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Denise reluctantly admits she has been a graphic designer since the days of T-squares, rapidographs, and Xacto knives. A former expert at keyline, aka cut-and-paste, she preferred wax over rubber cement and is thankful those days are long gone.
Today preferring Mac over Windows (and now more fluent in those languages than auf Deutsch), Denise uses her T-square to retrieve cat toys from under the sofa. She lives in Morton Grove, IL with her husband Pete and two cats, Axel and Günter.