Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? explored the role that graphic design plays in storytelling and communicating messages around healthcare across the globe. Created for the Wellcome Collection museum and library in London, the exhibition featured over 200 objects including posters, photography, film, books, and packaging that illustrated the varied nature of graphic design and how its widespread use can shape the environment and our health.

Given the exhibition’s subject matter, we sought to create a seamlessness between the graphic and spatial design for the space. For example, the letters of a large graphic that ran across the gallery wall were stretched over the wall’s folded surfaces, highlighting the interior architecture in the process. In addition, the display plinths—which took the form of oversized symbols—demonstrated how graphic design can be translated from two dimensional surfaces into three dimensional objects, surfaces and spaces.