Scientific illustration is to science the same as art is to culture. He is able to emphasize important details, to go layer by layer to show those details difficult to explain with words, to hold the time in a crucial step of a process or to accelerate it for a better understanding, even to show hidden views.

The question that still remains is: Why the graphics are still under valorised when planning a project in a society where image is so powerful, being everybody’s presentation business card? Should not be essential to add value to any project?

"What is the use of a book without pictures or conversation?" That was the question that Alice, the heroine of "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland", was naively asking herself. Many European readers were wondering the same, being quite confident in the power of images to help reading.