Kudos to our friend Dr. Toby Israel of Design Psychology on this segment on CBS Sunday Morning! Dr. Israel is the author of "Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places."

Psychology Today offers practical tips and compelling reasons for bringing nature indoors when you can't go outside. Natural Element: A Room With A View

Waiting is a core component of the healthcare experience which can induce stress and anxiety in patients and their caregivers. In a Quality Improvement Survey conducted across nine adult renal units the clinic waiting area at Cumfried received the highest score. This study evaluates which aspects of the waiting area were important to the patients and could have impacted their satisfaction scores. Click here to view the report on the Impact of Visual Art In Patient Waiting Rooms: Survey Of Patients Attending A Transplant Clinic In Dumfries.  

We already know that healthcare appropriate art can serve as a positive distraction and lower stress and anxiety for patients and family members in a hospital setting. But does it make a difference if nature scenes are viewed on a plasma screen as opposed to real life scenes viewed out a window? Can we trick our bodies into thinking we're actually experiencing nature through digital technology? Find out in this article on Psychology Today that aims to answer the question: Can HDTV beat Mother Nature?    

As part of our commitment to serve as a resource on healthcare art and the arts and healthcare field, Distinctive Art Source is pleased to share this guide published by the Center for Health Design: Healthcare Environmental Terms and Outcome Measures: An Evidence-Based Design Glossary.

When you enter the lobby of the newly constructed Owensboro Medical Health System, be sure to keep your head up. You won’t want to miss the extraordinary sculpture suspended in the atrium – a collection of more than 600 floating seeds that represent stories of hope and healing…art and agriculture. Local artist Mary Carothers worked closely with DAS and the hospital art committee to create the sculpture. Owensboro community members were invited to participate in the project by telling their story and casting their own seeds in resin pods at the Joe Ford Nature Center and other locations...

Congratulations to the team at Nemours Children's Hospital Orlando on the feature story in Healthcare Design Magazine, March 2013. DAS is honored to be a part of this extraordinary project. Page 38 tells the story of how DAS worked with Nemours to partner with local museums and art galleries to create a dynamic community art program. Read Healthcare Design March 2013 here. View Nemours project sheet here.

The Spring 2013 issue of INhealth magazine features Inova Fairfax Hospital's new patient tower, which offers a contemporary design that is not only aesthetically pleasing but also designed to promote and instill wellness. DAS was honored to work alongside the team at Inova in creating the facility's art program, which includes a dichroic glass sculpture measuring 16 feet high and 7 feet wide. The sculpture was commissioned and designed specifically to float in the space and complement the design and light transparency of the rotunda in the South Patient Tower. Read INhealth magazine here. View...

Kudos to our friends at Nemours Children's Hospital on this feature story in the March/April 2013 issue of Orlando Arts Magazine. Read media coverage of Nemours art program in Orlando Arts Magazine here. 

Inova Fairfax Hospital South Patient Tower DAS collaborated with artist Kenneth vonRoenn Jr. to design a memorable sculpture that complements both the design and transparency of the rotunda at Inova Fairfax Hospital while also creating a unique identity for the new South Patient Tower. The 16’h x 7’w dichroic glass sculpture visually floats in the space while continually reflecting and refracting light. As the sun moves and the light changes from day to night, saturated color shadows splash the rotunda walls extending the effect of the ever changing meditative rings. Light play provides elements...