Looking at Luō Dàwèi’s One Thousand Families, a collection of intimate portraits taken by families in China under quarantine, Jessica says,
During times of crisis, people want to make things. There’s a surge in the keeping of journals when there’s a war… it’s a response to the feeling of vulnerability, like corporeal vulnerability. My life is under attack. I am imprisoned in my house. I have to make something to say I was here, to say I mattered, to say this day happened… It’s like visual graphic reassurance. -Jessica
Also mentioned this week:
- Carl Bergstrom Twitter thread on the social distancing infographic
- Here Is New York: Photographs from 9/11
- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
- Scott Klein, ProPublica, Infographics in the Time of Cholera
- Vietnamese Health Dept, Jealous Coronavirus about washing hands
- Poster House, The Swiss Grid, through August 23
- Grant Cardone, The Job Interview
- Zander Brade, Monzo, How we hire product designers
- Nick Clement’s tweet about the Monzo hiring process and Michael’s reply
- Ben Brooks, Marsh, Measuring Internal Social Media - 90/9/1 Rule,
- Steven Heller, Design Observer, The Plot Against America
- Eric Rosenberg Design
- Joanne McNeil, Lurking
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