The virus is “a very adaptable shape.”
After two years, the virus’s influence on news, politics, and our lives has changed, though hardly waned. But the aesthetics of the pandemic have stayed mostly stagnant: masks, vaccines, syringes, and illustrations of little balls with spikes.
The visual monotony of the crisis has put art departments at news organizations in a pinch. How do you keep covering one of the most important stories of our time when the story keeps revolving around the same virus? First, art departments had to figure out the basics of covering the pandemic. As SARS-CoV-2 started spreading back in early 2020, artists at news publications had to get a bit of a crash-course in biology to do their jobs. “For some of those stories, especially early on, we’re really getting into trying to figure out ‘Advertisement“Because we’re an art desk, we don’t have formal training in science visualizations,” says King.
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