1,374 Days: My Life with Long Covid
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Graphic Design / Data Visualisation / 2024
In a visual essay for The New York Times, our designer uses data visualization to convey the overwhelming experience of Long Covid. They uses colorful brushstrokes of varying intensity to track her symptoms each day over the past few years. Seen all at once across the calendar, these dense layers of marks begin to convey the magnitude of pain and suffering inflicted by Long Covid. Along with the visualization, they contributes a guest essay that makes public many of the details of her journey for the first time, with the wish that it might help raise awareness and funding for the illness.
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