Can graphic design save your life? / editors: Sarah Schrauwen, Lucienne Roberts, Rebecca Wright.

Date:
2017
  • Books

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Description

Comprising over 200 objects including hard-hitting posters, illuminated pharmacy signs and digital teaching aids, 'Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?' considers the role of graphic design in constructing and communicating healthcare messages around the world, and shows how graphic design has been used to persuade, to inform and to empower.00This exhibition highlights the widespread and often subliminal nature of graphic design in shaping our environment, our health and our sense of self. Drawn from public and private collections around the world, it will feature work from influential figures in graphic design from the 20th century, as well as from studios and individual designers working today.00Exhibition: Wellcome Collection, London, UK (07.09.2017? 14.01.2018).

Publication/Creation

London : GraphicDesign &, 2017.

Physical description

255 pages : colour illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Wellcome Collection, London, 7 Sept. 2017 - 14 Jan. 2018.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780957238145
  • 0957238142