Can graphic design save your life? Wellcome Collection, London, 7 September 2017–14 January 2018

ABSTRACT

A review of the recent exhibition ‘Can graphic design save your life?’, curated by graphic designer Lucienne Roberts and design educator Rebecca Wright at the Wellcome Collection.

KEYWORDS:

• Graphic design
• exhibition curation
• public health
• communication design

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Notes on contributors

Sue Walker

Sue Walker is professor of typography and a former head of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Reading. She is a fellow of the Design Research Society and was a member of the art and design sub-panel for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 and Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, the UK's research quality assessment exercises. Her research interests are in the relationship between typography and language, and in information design history, theory and practice. With Eric Kindel she was co-investigator on the ‘Isotpye revisited’ project, working on graphic explanation for children based on a study of the children's books produced by Marie Neurath in the 1940s and 1950s. She is currently leading a UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project on communicating information about anti-microbial resistance in community pharmacies.