Health by Design | The Future of Healthcare
For Melbourne Design Week, I helped Ian Wong from Monash University bring large-screen content to life for “Health by Design” an exhibition focusing on design for healthcare.
Role: Motion Graphics | Design
Partners: Ian Wong | Monash University | Melbourne Design Week | Dr Indae Hwang | Tim Isaacson | Adam R. Thomas
The above video was produced by the Monash University Art, Design & Architecture Department.
Ian Wong was invited to curate a showcase of health innovations created by the Design Health Collab research team at Monash University for Melbourne Design Week 2024. He identified a large in-built screen as a sustainable way to present the amazing work of the team without having to print a forest’s worth of material.
But it needed to be stunning and engaging.
This is where I came in.
Ian brought me on board to turn the vast array of static and video elements from the research teams into a captivating package.
The Big Screen:
We all knew from the first time standing in front of the screen, that due to the large size (18m x 2m) and the enclosed environment it sat in, the pacing of the content was going to be very important; you couldn’t take in too much of the screen at once.
But this size of the screen also gave us great opportunities to play with scale and space. Creating elements that could be life-size or repeated, giving multiple people the opportunity to feel like they have a slice of the screen to themselves.
First, I built a modular graphics package to hold all the integral information that would be displayed at the beginning of each section as well as the side panels, if necessary. For these graphics, the architectural design of the room was used as inspiration, creating an array of dots that extended from the panels above and flowed like strands of DNA.
These elements were created as pre-rendered HD (1920 x 1080 px) videos that could be flipped or split up to save on render times.
The content followed these rules and strengths we identified to maximise the impact of the information being presented.
The full presentation ran for 28.5 minutes, below is a 3-minute sample of the content:
Photos of the screen | Adam R. Thomas:
Interactive booth:
Once people were given a glimpse of these incredible projects on the big screen, they could move to a smaller interactive video booth to find more in-depth information about each project.
The interactive booth: BOARDING NOW, was created as a mock bag screening terminal, where you presented each bag (associated with a project) in front of a scanner, it would read the custom QR code and play the corresponding video.
Photos of the interactive booth | Adam R. Thomas:
The extended exhibition:
In addition to the large screen and interactive booth, the exhibition included:
- An immersive AR experience (created by Cobalt Design) – displaying award-winning designs featured in the Victorian MedTech Showcase
- Scale models of the mobile CT brain scanner and ambulance (with partner Micro-X)
- Scale model of the design of self-screening checkpoints for US airports (with partner Micro-X)
- Prototype examples of various projects
Sample photos of the larger exhibit | Adam R. Thomas:
