Where medical complexity becomes visual clarity.

Medical illustration, animation, and UI/UX for the people advancing health — from local practices to international partners. Grounded in science, rendered with care.

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Illustration, animation, and design built for medicine

Every piece starts from the same standard: scientific accuracy paired with visual craft.

Illustration

 

Custom figures for education, publication, and patient care.

Animation

 

2D and 3D explainers that turn a complex process into something clear.

Clinical Design

 

Patient focused posters, annotated lookbooks, in-clinic info sheets.

Branding, Icons, & UI/UX

Cohesive visual identity, icon sets, and digital interfaces.

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Johnson County Public Health

Hennepin Healthcare

U of I College of Dentistry

Ponseti International

Iowa Public Health Association

PherDal

Clubfoot Solutions

The Legg Buddy

Healthy JoCo

Iowa State University - Anthropology Department

Selected works

A small selection, pulled from illustration, animation, and scientific work across the studio.

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Animation

Maternity Education Lookbooks

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Illustration

Day Spa Rebranding

SkinRock

Design

Diversity2 Web Redesign

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UI/UX

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Assata C Worrell

— the illustrator

Science, illustrated clearly. Where accuracy meets art.

I’m Assata Caldwell Worrell, founder of LEGACY BioStudios, LLC. Trained in Biomedical Illustration at Iowa State University, with advanced anatomy study at Yale, I build patient-focused visuals rooted in accuracy, inclusivity, and advocacy. Work that represents the people it’s meant to reach.

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Recent articles & episodes

Latest Articles

  • Assata Shakur

    By Assata | October 1, 2025

    My Namesake, Assata Shakur: Carrying Forward Liberation Through Medical Illustration This week, we mark the passing of Assata Shakur – a revolutionary, a survivor, and a voice of Black liberation. For me, her loss feels deeply personal: I am her namesake. My parents named me after her because they believed in her strength, courage, and…

  • Renaissance to the STEM Fair

    By Assata | September 3, 2025

    From the Renaissance to the STEM Fair: Why Art Still Belongs in Science “Leonardo da Vinci had no formal education. Yet, he became one of the greatest engineers, anatomists, and inventors of his time—not because he studied science, but because he observed the world through drawing.” This past July was our local STEM Fair, and…

  • Full Picture, Full Power: The Role of Context in Health Literacy

    By Assata | May 4, 2025

    Understanding female anatomy shouldn’t be a mystery—but for many people, it still is. As a medical illustrator, I’ve seen how much confusion and discomfort exists around the vulva, vagina, and uterus—often because diagrams are incomplete, censored, or overly clinical. At a recent reproductive justice art show, I was reminded just how powerful a full, clear…

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Latest Episodes

  • You Are the Specialist: Self-Advocacy, Patient Education, and the Work That Fills the Gap

    By Assata | September 2, 2026 |

    What does it actually take to advocate for yourself in a medical system that wasn’t designed with you in mind? In this episode, I share how advocating for my parents shaped the way I work as a medical illustrator — and what happened when I took that same philosophy into a Freedom School classroom this…

  • Adriana Smith and the Visual Erasure of Black Bodies in Medicine

    By Assata | December 7, 2025 |

    In this episode, I discuss the case of Adriana Smith, a Black woman in Georgia who was kept on life support because of the state’s fetal-personhood law, and what her story reveals about medical racism today. I also talk about Dr. Shalon Irving, a CDC epidemiologist who studied Black maternal mortality yet died from preventable complications herself.…

  • The Legacy of Ms LillyBell Davis: A History of Black Midwives in America

    By Assata | March 21, 2025 |

    In this episode, I share the story of Ms. LillyBell Davis, the midwife who delivered my father, and honor the legacy of Black midwives who provided care and protection during a time of medical injustice. Black Midwifery Organizations: Indigenous Midwifery Organizations: About the Maternity Education Lookbooks See the Maternity Education Lookbooks

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