Peninsula Home Hospice—
The Story of Living and Dying Well
Peninsula Home Hospice provides home-based palliative care that optimises quality of life for those in care and honours their hope for choice, dignity, comfort and peace. The service is provided to people living in the City of Frankston, a community of almost half a million people.
The Design Approach
Conceived in a story-book format, Living and Dying Well uses everyday language to open up the conversation about the scary topic of death. The book forms part of Peninsula Home Hospice’s 5-year strategic plan and aligns with the organisation’s new vision; ’people working together to live well and die well’.
The design of the book includes paintings by local Mornington Peninsula artist, Janine Daddo. I developed the layout including the typography, colour palette, hand-painted backgrounds, shapes and lines to complement the paintings. Together these elements bring approachability to the topic of death without undermining the seriousness of the story.
Living and Dying Well: Hand-painted design process
Experimenting with painted backgrounds to complement Janine Daddo’s paintings.
Expanding the visual direction and testing colours.
The expanded visual palette of colours, shapes and painted lines were then used throughout the book.