Above is another video about Coronary Bypass Surgery, this time from BUPA. It is quite clear that there are several helpful visual guides to this surgery, but none are available from the NHS, which is where my visual leaflet will be aimed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b1FQJcRE1k#t=18

Above is a link to a Youtube video about Coronary Bypass Surgery made by the British Heart Foundation. This is the only piece of media I have found so far (already existing) that could help patients who don't speak english as a first language, struggle to read, or understand things in a more visual way.

I have researched patient information leaflets for Private patients and they are usually given the same information leaflets as patients on the NHS. Below is an NHS leaflet on Mitral Valve Surgery which is given to private patients:

Here is another example of an NHS patient information leaflet, this time on Cardiology Clinics in the community. Once again there are no images or diagrams and some of the words are difficult to understand.

I have also drawn the same heart, mid-dissection, again in pencil for additional detail.

I have drawn a heart based on the dissections of hearts I have done. I have chosen to draw it in pencil rather than my pen 'dot' style in order to look at the detail more closely.

I bought a new book which depicts how human anatomy has been illustrated over time, which I am hoping will be very useful to my research.

I have experimented with my lung drawing on Photoshop:

This is a book a friend gave to me. It is an old nursing guide from the NHS complete with visual examples.

I found a book on drawing human anatomy which could be useful for my project:

I have finished another pen drawing of some lungs which I have done in the same style as the heart and skull. I will also be experimenting on Photoshop with this drawing.

I have been experimenting with a screen print-style look on Photoshop using my pen heart drawing:

A medically accurate, but not very realistic diagram of the heart:

Because my infographic leaflet would be used for the NHS, there would obviously be a budget which means that colour might be too expensive if printing in bulk. Because of this, I intend to draw/produce my infographics in black and white 1. because it would be cheaper to print for the hospital and 2. because my style of drawing is also more suited to black and white. Below are some black and white information graphics which I think are successful.

Here are some of my favourite information graphics that I have found. The ones I have chosen are slightly more illustrative style, which I would also like to include in my work.

I found another page on infographics, but this time celebrating the most successful infographics of the year http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/13-sterling-pieces-of-data-viz-from-the-best-american-infographic-2013/. Here are my favourites/the ones I think are most successful from the list:

I found a fantastic page on Pinterest called 'Bad Infographics'. http://www.pinterest.com/binfographics/bad-infographics/ It is simply a page full of infographics that haven't quite worked, and hopefully this web page will help me to avoid some of the more obvious info-graphic mistakes. Below are some of (in my opinion) the worst offenders: