Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? Is an exhibition showing at the Wellcome Collection in London. It showcases various pieces of graphic design in relation to health and how these pieces have evolved over time. One of the pieces that was shown was the evolution of cigarette packets and adverts for them. It showed how smoking was once seen as a good thing but now adverts and even the packets themselves have to display warnings about the harm that it can cause. Another thing that I found interesting within this exhibition was the medicine section, it showed the evolution of signs and directions in hospitals and how the different symbols and colours on the medicine bottles mean different things, enabling them to be easily identified. It also brought attention to the fact painkillers and other capsuled medicine that we take was not always in a capsule. In fact this revolutionised the medicine industry by helping to regulate the amount of each medicine that could be taken.
It was fascinating to see how graphic design has shaped things like medicine, something that we rarely (if ever) think about, and how this has impacted peoples lives for the better. I would defiantly go back to this exhibition as it makes you think differently about how you look at the things around you.
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