For Bill Marsh, a print graphics coordinator who helped oversee the execution, the digital concept worked equally well in print. “It seems natural for the front page.”That page has been used to visualize the breadth of the pandemic before. When Covid deaths in the United States reached 100,000 last May, the page was filled with names of those we had lost — nearly a thousand of them, just 1 percent of the country’s toll at the time. “I think part of this technique, which is good, is that it overwhelms you — because it should,” Mr. Gamio said. “And I think something striking about this particular piece that we were trying to drive home is just the sheer speed at which it was all happening.”

Source: New York Times February 21, 2021 09:56 UTC