Message Journal, Issue 5: COVID-19 SPECIAL ISSUE Capturing visual insights, thoughts and reflections on 2020/21 and beyond...
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2022-02Subject
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If there is a theme running through the Message Covid-19 special issue, it is one of caring. Of our own and others’ resilience and wellbeing, of friendship and community, of students, practitioners and their futures, of social justice, equality and of doing the right thing. The veins of designing with care run through the edition, wide and deep. It captures, not designers as heroes, but those with humble views, exposing the need to understand a diversity of perspectives when trying to comprehend the complexity that Covid-19 continues to generate.
As graphic designers, illustrators and visual communicators, contributors have created, documented, written, visualised, reflected, shared, connected and co-created, designed for good causes and re-defined what it is to be a student, an academic and a designer during the pandemic. This poignant period in time has driven us, through isolation, towards new rules of living, and new ways of working; to see and map the world in a different light. A light that is uncertain, disjointed, and constantly being redefined.
This Message issue captures responses from the graphic communication design community in their raw state, to allow contributors to communicate their experiences through both their written and visual voice. Thus, the reader can discern as much from the words as the design and visualisations.
Through this issue a substantial number of contributions have focused on personal reflection, isolation, fear, anxiety and wellbeing, as well as reaching out to community, making connections and collaborating. This was not surprising in a world in which connection with others has often been remote, and where ‘normal’ social structures of support and care have been broken down. We also gain insight into those who are using graphic communication design to inspire and capture new ways of teaching and learning, developing themselves as designers, educators, and activists, responding to social justice and to do good; gaining greater insight into society, government actions and conspiracy.
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Introduction
Victoria Squire
Coping with Covid: Community, connection and collaboration
James Alexander and Carole Evans, Meg Davies, Matthew Frame, Chae Ho Lee, Alma Hoffmann, Holly K. Kaufman-Hill, Joshua Korenblat, Warren Lehrer, Christine Lhowe, Sara Nesteruk, Cat Normoyle and Jessica Teague and Kyuha Shim
Coping with Covid: Isolation, wellbeing and hope
Sadia Abdisalam, Tom Ayling, Jessica Barness, Megan Culliford, Stephanie Cunningham, Sofija Gvozdeva, Hedzlynn Kamaruzzaman, Merle Karp, Erica V. P. Lewis, Kelly Salchow Macarthur, Steven McCarthy, Shelly Mayers, Sima Elizabeth Shefrin , Angelica Sibrian, David Smart, Ane Thon Knutsen, Isobel Thomas and Darryl Westley
Coping with Covid: Pedagogy, teaching and learning
Bernard J Canniffe, Subir Dey, Aaron Ganci, Elizabeth Herrmann, John Kilburn, Paul Nini, Emily Osborne, Gianni Sinni and Irene Sgarro, Dave Wood, Helena Gregory, Colin Raeburn and Jackie Malcolm
Coping with Covid: Social justice, activism and doing good
Class Action Collective, Xinyi Li, Matt Soar, Junie Tang and Lisa Winstanley
Coping with Covid: Society, control and conspiracy
Diana Bîrhală, Maria Borțoi, Patti Capaldi, Tânia A. Cardoso, Peter Gibbons, Bianca Milea, Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Danne Woo
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Dunne, C., Huus, Å., Ísleifsdóttir, D., James, M., Cooper, L., Jones, P. and Squire, V. (eds.) (2022) Covid-19 Special Issue : Capturing visual insights, thoughts and reflections on 2020/21 and beyond…Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/18929
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