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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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The art of soundproof design

Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.

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How to design an HIV awareness campaign

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

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Designing death in the virtual city

Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.

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  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: a model for the building designed by Septimus Warwick. Photograph.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • Food for thought... : food facts for healthy hearts from the British Heart Foundation, the heart research charity / written, designed and produced by Burnett Associates ; illustrated by Val Sassoon.
  • Painted figures reach up towards the world representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1st, by the National AIDS Strategy [Canada]. Colour lithograph by Vivian Reiss and Quorum Graphics.
  • Two plus signs [for HIV positive] separated by a line with two arrows pointing right [for the male symbol] representing an advertisement for HanseGay, 1995, a cultural event by Rat + Tat e.V. for gays and lesbians. Colour lithograph by Langenhan, 1995.
  • Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • Two yellow lines encircled by a grey/green line at the centre of a poster with details of the Public AIDS Symposium in Berlin on 28 November 1992 at the Seminar Centrum, Berlin; organised by Berliner AIDS-Hilfe, Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe, an initiative of Sergei Bashir and Manfred D. Kuno. Colour lithograph by ComDesign.
  • An old man and a younger man; representing the progress of pharmacy. Process print after U.A. Ricci.
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