Coronavirus Effects on Graphic Designers

Graphic Designers and Illustrators have started to create work that is informative, easy and simple to understand. These are images that allow people to explain to children what they should do with washing their hands or how to know if you should isolate, get treated , etc. 

Designers believe that they should be doing this to create something useful that can make a difference. "Even though we are not doctors or nurses, besides staying at home in self quarantine, we artists can help by creating something useful that can make a difference," artist Juan Delcan told Dezeen.

The virus has obviously brought larger projects to a halt or made the outcome become digitalised, studios have had to close and communicate via online chat rooms etc, keeping an eye on where the work is up to. 

However it seems as though design has been called upon during this time, as there has been a widespread Facebook post of a form to fill out if you are vulnerable or alone so that people around you can help you out. The UN called upon designers to help create work that will spread FACTS and instructions about the coronavirus. The brief was to create a piece of work that could communicate to all cultures, languages, communities and across different platforms. 

Many design studios have taken this on board and done it themselves. Taking to the streets to put up posters, realising images on their Facebook/instagram pages etc, designers are getting a lot of work out there to inform the public of what they should be doing to help stop the spread of the virus.