Filling hospitals with art reduces patient stress, anxiety and pain
Research from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has found that placing art in the NHS trust has helped to improve patient wellbeing, decrease hospital stays and reduce anxiety, depression and pain....
When graphic and digital designers create a website, app or a new brand, legibility will be one of the key considerations throughout the process. But will they be considering everyone when they do this, including those who have an impaired ability to read and understand information? ...
Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?
London’s Wellcome Collection is set to open a new show that will consider the role of graphic design in constructing and communicating healthcare messages around the world, and will show how graphic design has been used to persuade, to inform and empower.
Letterpress printing
Let’s talk business cards, something quite simple, yet so many people get it so wrong and miss the point. We hand them out face to face, the first introduction, a statement of you and the company you represent. Yet, we see it so many times, people apologising as they hand you their card, making excuses for the company that they are representing. Not a good start...
Typography and anatomy of Letterforms
The anatomy of Letterforms describes the different elements that make up printed letters in a typeface. The figure below shows the different parts of the letters in a typeface...