The other day I was designing a web site for a cardiovascular research group and I needed a simple graphic image for the site that would take up a good chunk of horizontal space without being two distracting. I choose to use this image of an EKG - a graph of the electrical voltage in the heart - for it’s graphical nature as well as the fact that it is a symbol that most people have come to associate with the heart.
I showed the design to the client yesterday, and needless to say I was shocked to find that that the EKG I had selected was that of a person on the verge of death. Oops! Turns out that that numerous peaks represent someone who is suffering severe cardiac arrest that would most likely kill them and apparently a normal EKG has far less of those. Luckily the client saw the humor in the situation and has since provided me with a healthy EKG so that visitors won’t be greeted by a graph of someone having a heart attack on their next visit the site.
That is a funny story. Nice!