The original intent of this column was to showcase how graphic design could improve healthcare practices, without resorting to criticism.  We’re not going to do that today.

It’s simply that without all the pieces of the puzzle it’s impossible to see the whole picture, which is why we’re breaking that rule.  After all, we can make the claim that healthcare graphics need help but without examples you’d just have to take our word for it.

As the May 5th World Hand Hygiene awareness campaign (this year with the exciting topic of combating antibiotic resistance!) is getting under way, we felt that that would be a great topic for some criticism as there are many, many examples out there.  This, folks, is how your various local and governmental organizations say “hand hygiene”: Read more ›

This was going to be an article, but we have so much to say on the subject that we decided a column would be a better idea.

Welcome to Healthcare Graphics Need Help, a column where rather than spending our time criticizing the poor visuals often used in healthcare (and particularly the area of infection prevention & control!) we seek to give examples from the world that can make this sadly overlooked area of graphic design better.

For our first post, we’ll go back to something we said over a month ago on another blog – namely, that “…hand hygiene stations need to be as obvious and easy-to-use as fire extinguishers.”  Here, for reference, is a fire extinguisher:

Photo by Tagg Design.

Beautiful, isn’t it?  What could hand hygiene stations possibly learn from this? Read more ›