Induction guide
This is a revamp of the New Starters Induction guide. The brief was for a document that was more friendly, engaging, magazine style than the standard corporate guideline style.
Pop art Work Health and Safety calendar
Every year the Work Health and Safety Unit develops a Safety Calendar for the various work sites throughout NSW. For this year’s one the brief was a comic book/pop art look, with the monthly safety themes linked to a list of pop songs they provided. I put the layout together with comic images sourced from Shutterstock…
Respecting the Rainbow Serpent
It is mandatory that all NSW Government staff complete Respecting the Difference training, a workshop on Aboriginal cultural differences. In the health sector, this can be a significant factor in improving the health outcomes of Aboriginal patients. One of the exercises of the training course involves a double-sided ‘Rainbow Serpent’ banner of 250cm by 90cm…
Organ Donation for Transplantation Plan
I’ve lost count of reports I’ve designed and laid out over the last decade, but the Organ Donation for Transplantation Plan is notable for a few reasons. One, I had complete free-range over the design, and I love how it turned out – the colours, the clean white space and the fantastic image library that…
Celebrating 20 years of the SLHD Community Visitors Scheme
The Community Visitors Scheme is of those great volunteer programs that cost hardly anything yet the payout for all those involved is significant and lasting. The scheme arranges visits between bilingual volunteers and elderly people from various multicultural backgrounds who are often isolated and lonely in nursing homes and aged care facilities. In 2014 I…
Sydney Local Health District Year in Review 2013
For the last couple of years I’ve done the Sydney Local Health District’s (SLHD) Year in Review documents. They have a very clear idea of how they want them to look – in particular they like the magazine style layout rather than a corporate document style. The books are usually around 36 pages, and because…
Different views of the news
I’ve designed a number of newsletter templates for various health agencies as well as designing and laying out HealthShare NSW’s own monthly newsletter. These templates have been in different formats depending on the software and skills available at the various workplaces, including Publisher, InDesign and sometimes Word. Designing documents in Word is a bit of a…
HealthShare NSW Year in Review 2013
Year in Reviews are like Annual Reports, and are projects that you get to experiment more with design than the normal everyday projects. Here are a few pages from the HealthShare NSW Year in Review 2012-13. The blue and green is the established branding of HealthShare NSW, the photos are all of NSW Health or HealthShare NSW…
Dressing up the uniform catalogue
Catalogues are one of those jobs that designers love to hate… unless the editing and layout instructions are clear and well organised, they have an obsessive-compulsive attention to detail and endless time to get the template exactly right. The chances of all three coming together are rare and unusual experience. The NSW Health Uniform Catalogue wasn’t one…
The ‘Blue Book’ gets appy
One of the most significant annual projects I worked on when I was the graphic designer at the NSW Ministry of Health was managing the print production and updates for the My Personal Health Record – also known as the Blue Book. The Blue Book is given to every newborn’s parents to keep as a record…
