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There’s an exhibition currently running at the Wellcome Collection, London called Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? (until 14 January 2018) (wellcomecollection, 2017). The exhibition looks at how graphic design can persuade, inform and empower us. It encourages us to consider graphic design’s role in our own lives.
The exhibition was the idea of GraphicDesign& and is curated by graphic designer Lucienne Roberts and design educator Rebecca Wright, founders of the publishing house, with Shamita Sharmacharja from Wellcome Collection.
The collection features over 200 objects including hard-hitting posters, illuminated pharmacy signs and digital teaching aids. This exhibition shows that graphic design has been used for many years to try and convince people of bad habits.
After finding some of the murals that I talked about in my ‘Nepali Art: Part I’ post, I noticed the way that these artists were trying to convey important messages. This is where my keyword project is heading, with the idea of producing a series of postcards highlighting social issues.
References:
wellcomecollection (2017) wellcomecollection.org [online] Available at: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/WZwh4ioAAJ3usf86 [Accessed: 15 November 2017]
Images:
Fig 1: Symptoms of Ebola, Stephen Doe, 2014, Photograph, [Online] Available at: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2147303-graphic-design-can-save-your-life-heres-how/ [Accessed: 15 November 2017]
Fig 2: wellcomecollection.org [online] Available at: https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/WZwh4ioAAJ3usf86 [Accessed: 15 November 2017]
Fig 3, 4: webneel.com [online] Available at: http://webneel.com/30-brilliant-anti-smoking-advertisements-your-inspiration-best-print-ads-and-posters [Accessed: 22 November 2017]