Hospitals and healthcare treatment centers are specializing in increasingly diverse areas of medicine. As a result, the facilities themselves can be a confusing and overwhelming maze for patients. One important way to lessen confusion for patients navigating through these buildings is wayfinding. ...
Environments play a huge role in patient satisfaction and well-being. More and more research indicates changes to the interior design of healthcare facilities can have significant impacts for patients, visitors and staff. Incorporating artwork that is backed by the principles of evidence-based ...
A patient being treated for breast cancer at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis recently reached out to us on social media with these kind words about our installation there: “My radiation oncology center has the prettiest photography, all beautifully framed, on its walls. This wildflower landscape ...
“A moral society is ultimately measured by how it treats those in distress and challenge, and how it treats those who dedicate their lives to helping those people.” – Governor Jay Nixon We were recently involved in a ground-breaking healthcare project at the newly constructed Fulton State Hospital in ...
Water. It makes up approximately 60% of our bodies and covers almost 3 quarters of the earth’s surface. We can’t live without it. So it makes sense that according to Kathy Hathorn and Upali Nanda’s A Guide to Evidence Based Art, calm, slow moving water imagery made healthcare patients ...
Even though I’m a photographer by trade, I still spend a significant amount of time behind a desk. Most of us find ourselves face to face with a computer screen instead of mother nature or find ourselves immersed in fluorescent overhead lighting instead of soothing sunlight. And although I try to get outside as often ...
At the end of last year, we finished one of our biggest, most fulfilling and most interesting healthcare projects to date: Regional Health Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota. This was an exciting and extremely fast-paced project that condensed what is normally a 12-16 week process into roughly half ...
We recently presented a live webinar with the Center for Health Design alongside Julie Robertson, NCIDQ, IIDA, Interior Design Director HDR, called Designing a Brand Through Art and Architecture: A Tale of Two Hospitals. This webinar highlights the Mother/Baby Projects we did together in Minnesota and talks through how the ...
Being a photographer, capturing the beauty I see in the world, is something that has always come easily to me. I’m drawn to forests and oceans, find tranquility in miles of open fields where wildflowers and natural grasses paint a pattern on the landscape; these are the types of nature images that have the ability ...
Everywhere I go, this time of year, is filled with breathtaking changes in nature ~ lush green forests turning deep shades of orange, yellow and red, leaves doing their delicate dance as they gently fall to their winter resting place. I love being alone in these spaces with my camera. Their beauty ...
