DITA specially commissioned x-ray artist Hugh Turvey to showcase the craft that celebrates the unseen in some of our most iconic frames. Click the image to read the exclusive interview for DITAworld by Laura Havlin.

Invitation from President, Dr Nicola Strickland to present this year's lecture.

"Thank you to Hugh Turvey, who concluded our spring Admission Ceremony with a very compelling lecture entitled 'An X-ray vision' for our #RCRFellows." Hugh delivered this year lecture to 450 attendees and has been awarded the engraved medal, as seen above. The lecture was endowed in 1955 by the late Right Honourable Viscount Crookshank CH, in memory of his mother. The Lecturer is appointed annually by the President and is asked to chose a subject of interest to radiologists. Currently, the Lecture is given at the Spring Admission Ceremony. The Lecturer receives a medal. A list of past Lecturers is available.

One of ten artists globally invited/commissioned by Google to create a watchface app for Android Wear devices – to help initiate interest in the Android Wear OS platform. 
Production in Los Angeles.

"An Android Wear™ watch has become a digital canvas for visual art. Evolving from the Xogram work of artist Hugh Turvey, Xogram is a unique watch face now available for Android wearables. It has been created in collaboration with B-Reel who has worked with Hugh on the creative approach and Android development. Starting today you can download these watch faces from Google Play, just like you do apps, to be used on your Android Wear device.
 
Hugh’s work exposes the world around us, literally and metaphorically. A selection of his nature images are illuminated through a kaleidoscopic lens whenever the watch face is activated. Conjuring movement that reveals new variations to each they reflect an ever-changing world of possibility.
 
You can choose between analogue and digital, 12- or 24-hour clock displays and can pick your favourite image or cycle them all throughout the day.
 
“This project has given me a new perspective on graphic expressions of time. We are all Chrononauts, travellers in time, and I like to think this app might encourage us to take time and stop, if just for a moment, to appreciate the infinite patterns within nature.”  Hugh Turvey.

wearos.google.com
play.google.com/xogram 

"This odyssey all started when I invited Hugh to be a part of my parlor game potluck league that I was 
starting and that ultimately went nowhere. 

Hugh emailed me back thinking I had I spammed him.  We kind of got caught up since we had first 
worked together on an art science exhibit for the Franklin institute in 2005.  

I had seen an AMAZING book called Marion Batallie, published by Roaring Brook Press.  It is a pop up 
book where every letter has a different pop-up mechanism.  

Later the same week I had a idea in while I was showering for a. Beautiful A-Z book of Hugh's x-ray 
photography called X is for X-Ray.  I figured he had A large  enough archive of images that he could just 
whip the thing together.  

So I emailed my idea to Hugh and he was excited to give it a try and asked me to help.  We started 
working on a print book.  Eventually Hugh would create about thirteen new images for our print book. 
My wife Maren was writing the text.  We showed the book to several publishers and the feedback was 
very inconsistent, some didn't like the rhymes while others didn't like the images.  

After several rounds of conflicting feedback I sent the book to my friend and great writer Paul Rosenthal. 
Paul not only had great feedback but provided some wonderful example rhymes.  Hugh, Maren and 
myself decide that Paul was the guy to write the text if he was interested. Luckily he was interested and 
did a great job of creating a wonderful series of rhymes that go perfectly with Hugh's images.

After about a year of chasing publishers the iPad came out.  I realized that this book really needed to an 
ebook.  I had seen samples of The Elements by Theo Grey and I thought our book needed similar 
production values.  So in my initial search for an E publisher I looked up The Elements and discovered 
that Theo and his good friend Max had started a new company called TouchPress.  I sent them an email 
about our book.  Literally about 45 minutes later I received an email back from them expressing interest 
in our book. Two weeks after that we had a verbal agreement to do an ebook together.  A year and a 
half later X is for X-ray hit the iTunes store."  Mike Levad Co-author

“The beauty of the app is its attention to detail. Almost every object has some unique
effect, like the way the car engine’s pistons turn when you rotate it in x-ray mode.”
- Applegazette.com

“Curious children and tweens will get an entertaining glimpse into everyday objects in
this app, which operates on multiple levels.”
- schoollibraryjournal.com

My 6yr old is amazed by x-rays since he's seen his MRI of his brain. He really enjoyed
seeing the insides of so many everyday objects. Highly Highly recommended app :)
- welcometotheirworldapps

one of the most fun and innovative interactive books I have seen for the iPad. I really
enjoyed this book, and so did the children I shared it with.
- mobiletechreview.com

One of those completely unnecessary apps that we still think we can’t live without
- Stuff Magazine UK
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​Mission
A key aim for these works was to demystify the process of taking x-ray images and explain to patients the science behind the process in workshops with the equipment. Staff and the public were involved in bringing interest objects and revealing their structure or content by using x-rays with a qualified radiographer. The children particularly enjoyed the workshop process, seeing science being brought alive and learning with their parents seemed a mutually beneficial and fun experience. 95% of participants from the workshops said they would be interested in using the Radiology equipment again and had enjoyed the opportunity.

From these sessions we were able to collect data from the groups about what they wanted in terms of information from leaflets and staff they may meet. It was good to collect this data on their concerns in order to develop effective communication, and to combat their fears as much as possible. It is important to create (wherever possible) positive experiences within the hospital environment to reduce stress for further visits if required.

Consultant for Ridley Scott Associates (RSA)
Commission from Margo Mars, RSA to collate/create reference x-rays for the production of this advert for Ford.
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I was sent this morning the directors version of  'True Beauty' - It is interesting to see the differences - I certainly prefer the Director version especially with the 'reveal' of the car at the end and the detail of the zebra.

New Ford Mondeo ad campaign from The Blue Hive (Ogilvy, Wunderman and Mindshare)

Directors Version
Title: Ford Mondeo ‘True Beauty’
Director: Carl Erik Rinsch
Production Company: RSA Films
Producer: Margo Mars
X-ray Consultant: Hugh Turvey

The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011) - IMDb

​Production of x-ray imagery used thought the feature film produced by Vertigo Films titled: Et Soudain, Tout Le Monde Me Manque (shot in Paris during August 2010). The last x-ray exhibition scene was shot at GALERIE ANNE DE VILLEPOIX, 43, rue de Montmorency 75003 Paris. Line Producer: Farid Chaouche.
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Réalisatrice: Jennifer Devoldere    Acteurs: Eli: Michel Blanc    Justine: Mélanie Laurent    Géraldine Nakache    Guillaume Gouix

​BBC Persian TV,  Programme TAMASHA Series 1, Episode 17 TX: 26th Nov 2009.
Interviewer: Shahriar Siami
Production: Clan Productions, London