Your health in your hands

Wearable devices linked to online systems and clinicians could put designers at the heart of a revolution in healthcare. As the AXA PPP Health Tech & You exhibition launches at the Design Museum, we ask where this ‘self-care’ movement is taking us and if we are ready for what it means

Graphic design for the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms

Since 2007, graphic designer Iain Cadby has worked with London gallery the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, creating exhibition identities and books for shows by some of the world’s best known street artists. He has now published a book on the thinking and process behind his designs, including work for Ron English, Adam Neate, Boris Tellegen (DELTA) and José Parlá…

Sagmeister & Walsh creates elegant identity for Fugue software

Sagmeister & Walsh has created an elegant visual identity for Fugue, a software product that creates cloud infrastructures. The dynamic system is designed to convey “lineage and humanity” without relying on traditional tech imagery, and features an animated logo and graphic patterns generated in response to user data…

Not There campaign in the US highlights gender inequality

Last Sunday, on International Women’s Day, certain media and advertising in the US was eerily devoid of women, as magazines and billboards removed images of female models and celebrities and instead directed audiences to not-there.org, a website reporting on the current state of gender equality…

Offset 2015 day one: Annie Atkins, Hey, Barber & Osgerby & more

The first day of Dublin creative conference Offset featured an inspiring insight into graphic design for filmmaking from Annie Atkins, plus talks from Hey Studio, Barber & Osgberby’s Edward Barber, Ian Anderson and Rory Hamilton, creative director at Dublin agency Boys And Girls.

Ads of the Week

It’s been a bumper week for ads – here’s our pick of the best.

Biro miniatures by Greg Gilbert

Working in blue biro, Greg Gilbert’s miniatures draw on city council photo archives and render elements from different times in exquisite detail. We talked to him about creating work in this unusual medium

Lost Property – NoBrow’s latest 17×23 edition

NoBrow’s 17×23 short form comic book series is designed to help young graphic novelists get into storytelling. Its latest publication is a strange tale of things lost and found by Andy Poyiadgi

Life through the Ladybird lens

Ladybird by Design is a new book and accompanying exhibition which celebrate the centenary of the children’s publisher. Both reveal how book design and illustration developed in mid-twentieth-century Britain – but also how Ladybird’s affordable titles reflected the social ideals of the country’s burgeoning middle class