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…
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…
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…
As part of my work for HealthShare NSW, I also often provide graphic services for other external government health agencies, which I charge for on behalf of HealthShare NSW. The money helps to offset my salary as well as providing other health agencies with professional design services at a cost-effective rate. The Agency for Clinical Innovation…
I’ve done a few large documents and other pieces for the Clinical Excellence Commission over the past few years, the major one was the Safer System Better Care: Quality Systems Assessment reports. In 2011 they approached me to provide them with a fresh new look for this annual report. I used their logo as the basis of the…
In 2010 I designed the NSW Health Youth Health Policy 2010-2015, “Healthy bodies, healthy minds, vibrant futures’. The client wanted the document to be in two colours that were high contrasting so that when the PDF was downloaded by health workers throughout NSW it would still be readable when printed on a black and white…
In 2004 I was approached by my old Investorinfo boss to create the layout for the startup magazine he was launching and design the first issue. The brief was that the magazine would look slick, clean and professional, with a newsy feel that was emphasized by its tabloid size. I was working fulltime at Money…
