Here are the interior pages to show how the illustrations were used. You can read the whole article online on the magazine’s website.

Page 32 and 33 of The Scientist magazine, September 2010, with digital art illustration by Magda Wojtyra.

Page 34 and 35 of The Scientist magazine, September 2010, with digital art illustration by Magda Wojtyra. (Collage with other RNA molecules by the magazine.)

Page 36 and 37 of The Scientist magazine, September 2010, with digital art illustration by Magda Wojtyra. (Collage with other RNA molecules by the magazine.)

My self-portrait that I submitted for the contributors' page . I can barely keep my eyes open in the glare of the Los Angeles sun.

Here’s what the magazine wrote for the biography blurb, based on an interview with me:

I think science is really important,” says Magda Wojtyra, who finds her niche as a graphic designer, digital artist, photographer, world traveler, and stuffed animal and jewelry creator. Wojtyra did the cover art for this month’s issue, from her “Waterwalk” series, which was created through the digital manipulation of an image of RNA. Magda also designs “art websites for scientists and other heroes,” through her company RNA Studio (www.rna.ca).

Madga learned design while at school for architecture at the University of Waterloo. “What I like about all the different design, including architecture, is the storytelling aspect,” she says. Some of her work will be exhibited during the Nuit Blanche show at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Ontario on October 2, 2010.

Ladilola earrings in black patent leather in a geometric, pointy shape.

Ladilola earrings in grape purple patent leather stamped with an alligator pattern cut to a geometric, teardrop shape.

Right now the shop looks a bit hodgepodge as a result of this experimenting. Soon a style will emerge and the shop will fill up.

Towards the end of my year in France (2008), my friend Nada who makes goregeous leather bags in Paris took me to a small warehouse in the Paris suburbs. In a corner I found a box of post-industry scraps of genuine crocodile leather and patent leather stamped with a croc pattern. I was on my way from France to India, and the leather travelled around with me for four months (yes, I know, crazy) until I was finally inspired in the cooler weather of Nepal to start designing and cutting. And that is how the eco luxury Crocodile Tears Earrings collection came to be.

Here are some of the items now in the shop:

View from the hotel where I stayed in April 2008.

How lovely death can be.