
The Omnium Project Australia (through the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales) is launching its latest international online creative collaboration (whew!): Visualising Issues in Pharmacy. Here, pharmacy students and graphic design students will collaborate to "to address important global health issues by producing detailed research reports and subsequent graphic and visual communication campaigns for implementation in specific local hospitals and health centres in Kenya, Africa."
The project will last 3 months (April - June), and is their second such initiative. Here's a bit more:
The VIP project ultimately aims to increase public awareness of six health-related concerns identified as debilitating public health in many developing nations:* adherence
* malaria
* tuberculosis
* sexually transmitted infections
* chronic disease
* immunization
Get all the info you need at the site.
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Thanks for the shout guys, we appreciate it. For some reason the product/industrial designers seem to have their act together more when it comes to social, ethical and sustainability issues than the graphic designers. Come on folks, prove me wrong about that!