University Hospital Building

    Communicating Care and Compassion

    Project Disciplines

    01
    UI/UX Design
    02
    Brand strategy
    03
    Graphic design
    04
    Accessibility

    Intro

    Offering a wide range of services aimed at improving health and quality of life, top-rated Rush University Medical System Health and Aging understands the importance of communication, compassion and patients’ involvement in their own care. With a board and stakeholders requiring accountability and up to date stats, annual reporting is a necessity.

    Person helping out older senior citizen.

    Content Strategy

    Assessment and development of content to focus on heightened engagement of the targeted audience to promote calls to action, conversion and drive profitable behaviors.

    Annual report cover featuring to people walking up stairs during autumn.

    Visual Storytelling

    A blend of visual narrative using lifestyle imagery and infographics serve the dual purpose of informing and sparking emotional cues.

    Annual Report

    Graphic Design
    Annual report table of contents design.
    Annual report spread design.
    Annual report spread design.
    Annual report spread design.
    Annual report spread design.
    Annual report spread design.
    Annual report spread design featuring infographics.

    Process

    The creative design took an optimistic approach to discussions around the issues at hand with regard to aging and caregiving and how Rush has optimized their services.

    With three design directions provided, the styling of the report included infographic implementation, a unique color scheme, typographic selection and chart design consistency. With a clean, modern look, placing a greater emphasis on imagery and the data visualization, the vision and mission of Rush’s Health and Aging initiative becomes more visible.

    Zesty Lime
    #BFD64A
    Oceanic Blue
    #2E7EAE
    Forest Emerald
    #23A24B
    Coral Blush
    #F15F6A
    Tranquil Turquoise
    #16AFBF
    Serene Sky Blue
    #A4D9E7
    Open Sans typeface.
    Open Sans
    Bebas Neue typeface.
    Bebas Neue
    Minion Pro typeface.
    Minion Pro
    Two older adults jogging in a park while smiling.

    Solution

    Providers, patients and stakeholders demand consistency of both visual and contextual elements to express trust, with new elements to spark engagement

     

    Utilizing Rush’s brand voice and tonality, ArtVersion provided creative and art direction leading to the development and implementation of a fresh look and feel for the annual report and financial data report templates.

    Multiple books of an annual report organized on a gray background.

    The Result

    Setting new standards and branded elements for all future collateral and print communications, the newly refreshed perspective provides standardization of design elements.

     

    Intuitively designed content, data visualization and targeted calls to action engage the reader, resulting in heightened awareness and organization involvement.

    ArtVersion curated statistics that both visually and contextually represent the future of meeting spaces and were developed for both print and digital distributions to educate the user about the innovation of meeting spaces.