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. First, art departments had to figure out the basics of covering the pandemic. “Because we’re an art desk, we don’t have formal training in science visualizations,” says King. “We’re very general in our approach to how we create illustrations, how we create art.

Source: The Nation March 19, 2022 03:58 UTC