Chinese Materia Medica — thalan-harry

The History of Chinese Medicine

- Graphic Design
- July 2023
- Chinese Medicine Centre

Attempting to summarise close to five thousand years of Chinese medical history onto three panels doesn’t sound like an easy task. So when the Chinese Medicine Centre commissioned me to do exactly that, I had to carefully consider my choices regarding grid and spacing to ensure that all information could be featured consistently and legibly.

This installation was created as part of the exhibit ‘Chinese Materia Medica: The Hidden Story of Healing Plants’; a collaboration between Western Sydney University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and designed based on an identity system established by an external professional studio.

This three-panel print installation was created in collaboration with Haimeng Zhao

I acknlowedge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the stolen land on which I live, work and play, passing this respect on to traditional Aboriginal elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sovereignty was never ceded