5 Ways to Wellbeing
at MTU Library
Graphic Design
& Installation
The Wellbeing Wall was developed as part of MTU Library modernising its services to student needs, in line with the university’s adoption of the UN Sustainability Goals. Working with Healthy Campus, the library built a physical space and book collection around the peer-researched “5 Ways to Wellbeing” framework, and I designed and installed the space itself: wall decal and poster series.
The work had to be accessible to an international, multilingual student body with a wide range of abilities, while still reading as designed for its core audience of 19 to 24 year olds. The decal carried the overall message and needed to be understood at a glance, so colour, type and iconography were held to strict accessibility standards. The posters carried more detail and were given more latitude, since the same strict standards started to skew the tone younger than the audience it was for. Reconciling accessibility requirements from multiple stakeholders with a design that still looked considered to a Gen Z audience took several rounds of revision.
An explainer video was produced alongside the installation, aimed at stakeholders and other university libraries considering similar projects.
Installation Photography
Explainer Video
Poster Series — Print
Study Hub Poster Series
The Study Hubs are a separate space in the library: small, glass-walled offices students can book for individual study. This series carries the same “5 Ways to Wellbeing” themes into that space, designed for the library’s core users rather than a general audience.
The approach was editorial: image-led, associative and contemporary rather than illustrative, produced for higher-quality art print. The Study Hubs are a smaller, self-selecting space rather than a general thoroughfare, allowing the design brief to shift from universal legibility to a more targeted visual language for the students already using them.
