GRAPHIC DESIGN

This booklet is from the final semester of the Medical Art MSc program. Lazy eye also know as Amblyopia is caused when something disrupts the normal development of vision. It’s often assumed that younger children have the same vision as adults, but this is not the case. Children have to learn how to see – more specifically, their brains have to learn how to interpret the nerve signals sent from the eyes to the brain. It usually takes around 3 to 5 years before children can see as clearly as adults, and up to 7 years before the vision pathways in the brain become fully developed. If something affects one of the images the eye shows the brain as the brain develops, the signals become disrupted. The brain starts to ignore the poor-quality images, the brain becomes increasingly reliant on the stronger eye, which makes the weaker eye even lazier. Resulting in a “Lazy eye” The booklet and accompanying animation and 3D model are created to help educate parents on the causes and treatment of amblyopia.