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I made 24 high-quality Covid illustrations. Free for commercial and personal use
- opendomain 6y agoThese look great! Thank you for creating these. Please note that you do have a link to creative commons, but I could not find the specific license these are released under.
- andyydao 6y agoIt's my pleasure! Let me get back to you on the license part. However as a summary you'll be able to use them for personal or commercial use without attribution :)
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- thedrbrian 6y agoKinda disappointed there’s no tik tok dancing nurses one.
- lowercased 6y agoVery nice work - thank you! I'm curious how long something like this takes to put together. Not the website so much as the illustrations themselves.
- pcdoodle 6y ago"Peaceful" protest is missing.
- jrs235 6y agoThese look awesome. Can you change "Social distancing" to say "Physical distancing" though?
- werber 6y agoI haven’t heard that phrase as much, why do you think it’s better?
- ragingrobot 6y agoNot the poster, but I agree with them. "Social" distancing says to me at least, avoid people period. Don't talk to them. Don't communicate in any way. Be asocial, if you will. "Physical" distancing is exactly what it says, keep your distance from others, and has no impact on the social aspect of daily life.
- account42 6y agoI think part of the reason for the social distancing term is that it implies there need to be less restrictions in a non-social (ie work) context, which is of course BS.
- retSava 6y agoEven if I agree "physical" is better suited for what's asked for, "social" is now the de facto recognized and used term and people seem to understand it to mean "physical" in practice. At least those that don't subscribe to various "it's a hoax"-theories.
- alimbada 6y agoThey look great. Just a minor point, but your captions are offset from the illustrations in Firefox. Edit - I took a couple of screenshots; captions for the last row aren't visible: https://imgur.com/a/kTvfeKn https://imgur.com/a/kTvfeKn
- b3lvedere 6y agoThank you very much for these awesome illustrations!
- andyydao 6y agoIt's my pleasure! Thank you for the kind comment :)
- hh3k0 6y ago"Avoid handshake" strikes me as weird, with the hands essentially hovering in front of the prohibition sign.
- Causality1 6y agoYeah that would be better if they were just overlapping hands, not shaking hands. Expressing not to touch without invoking the symbolism of cooperation.
- elicash 6y agoThey do have an "avoid handshakes 2" option, which might be useful for what you're trying to express.
- kevinherron 6y agoSitting on what appears to be a park bench isn't what I would call "quarantine life". That one should probably be a couch.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoI love what this comment - and the certainty in its conclusions - says about our current times. Having lived in NYC my whole life, I experienced life within the "epicenter" of this "tragic" pandemic. I have never seen the parks so full of people in December - every bench is occupied. Every bench. In my neck of the woods, many people have largely lived their lives on park benches, doing everything they can to have connections with other people in as normal a way as possible. People "socially distance" as much as they can, sitting as far apart from one another as possible, and talk. Usually with masks on. In Brooklyn, NY, this is possibly the best way to remain sane without risking being a victim of the huge increase in random senseless crimes, and without risking being a perceived nuisance to the public. It's sad to see it, because it's so obvious what trouble people are going through to get this all done. To see people bundled up in winter coats, barely able to move, so they can bare the near-freezing temperatures - just to socialize - really shows how hideous these lockdowns are and how much they threaten the human spirit.
- vore 6y agoCurious about why you choose to scare-quote "tragic": I would hope you feel that there's nothing contentious about death on such a massive scale as being anything short of tragic.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoI scare-quoted "tragic" because the tragedy of this pandemic was not the lives lost due to the introduction of a new head cold into our ecosystem - it was the illegal, violent, and world-upending implementations of fascism that governments engaged in, essentially declaring war on its own taxpaying citizens. I am in the "epicenter" of the virus - NYC. Everyone I know who has contracted the virus - male, female, old, young, thin, fat, black, and white - had about one day of illness followed by 12 hours of recovery. On day two, all of them awoke to feeling pretty much entirely over it. Anybody who's even remotely healthy has nothing to worry about with this pandemic. If people are truly being killed off by COVID-19, we have much bigger public health problems to be addressing than this stupid virus. By not ever addressing immune system strengthening, healthier diet and lifestyle choices, etc., to fight the virus, we enabled the pharmaceutical companies to continue to herd us in whatever way gives them the best chance at profits. Obviously, it is this group of people to whom our governments are directing their attention. Obviously, these self-interested elites are using government as a vehicle for compulsive adoption, turning huge profits in the meantime. The people that died from COVID were going to die of the very next infectious disease they contracted. To have died of COVID, you had to be on death's door already, or so statistically unlucky as to make your suffering a rounding error. If this is a truly global crisis, we're all fucked anyway. A typical US president amasses a 1mil+ kill count by the end of their first term in office. I am far, far more concerned by these tragic deaths. And I am quite lonely sometimes holding that contention. But I know I am right. Notice how nobody is talking about foreign policy, and hasn't for the entire year, thanks to this pandemic.
- BasDirks 6y agoCute! Thanks for contributing :)
- aezakmi 6y agoYuck, more globohomo art
- BillGoates 6y agoPastels to promote the fascist 'new normal'. How very quaint. I really wish people stopped digging our own graves.
- GavinMcG 6y agoI really wish people stopped digging graves for 275,000 people and counting by being able to tell the difference between basic public health measures and fascism.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoI’d love to listen to you squeal while your face is peeled off with a knife.
- BillGoates 6y agoThe problem with this kind of reasoning is that you put blame on a large group of individuals, without being a 100% the measure have any positive effect at all. This creates a dangerous precedent. Putting health before anything else will make the life we live impossible. But if you insist on being right, you should stop travelling, stop using electricity or any modern device. They all pollute and potentially will cause some damage to someone's health.
- GavinMcG 6y agoThere is zero doubt at this point that mask-wearing and reducing the number of people one comes in contact with do have a positive effect. And your slippery slope fallacy is also unconvincing. I have a reasonable choice about whether to meet someone in person, but not whether to use electricity. And while both may be harmful, only one of them can be the proximate cause of the continued spread of disease and even death. The strawman you're building is that we put health "before anything else". Being absolutist and making any one thing a priority to an extreme degree can of course be problematic. But asking people to properly wear masks in public, closing spaces where people do convene and not wear masks, and expecting people to relate to others virtually or from a distance are not "putting health before anything else" - they're making health one priority. You're making up the idea that it's exclusive of everything else.
- x1798DE 6y agoThis says it's under "creative commons" license, but there are many creative commons licenses and the link just goes to creativecommons.org . I'm guessing you meant to use CC-BY, CC-0 or CC-BY-SA? CC has a license chooser to help you pick one: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ https://creativecommons.org/choose/ Edit: Just noticed that someone else had the same question, my bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25301038 Sounds like it will be CC-0 when the license is sorted out, which is awesome! If true, advertising that these are public domain will probably be an even stronger selling point!
- andyydao 6y agoHi there! I've just updated the license to this - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Let me know if that works well :) all the best
- greggman3 6y agoCC-BY-SA is not "free for commercial" use. CC-BY would be. Whether you choose CC-BY or CC-BY-SA is up to you but the title says "free for commercial use" which CC-BY-SA is not or at least not for the use cases shown.
- robalni 6y agoI don't think commercial use is incompatible with an SA license. Maybe it depends on how you define commercial use but if you define it as "any activity in which you use a product or service for financial gain", there would be no problem putting one of these images on a product and sell the product and still give the consumers the freedom to use the images under the same license.
- andyydao 6y agoThanks for pointing that out Gregg! I've just updated it to be CC-BY :)
- tdstein 6y agoThese are great! You may be interested in joining the Lifeology community. https://lifeology.io/lifeology-community/ https://lifeology.io/lifeology-community/ "The Lifeology community connects scientists, health experts, artists, storytellers, expert reviewers and audiences to improve how we all communicate about science and health." They have published various COVID-19 resources for adults and children: https://lifeology.io/coronavirus-center/ https://lifeology.io/coronavirus-center/
- andyydao 6y agoAwesome! I'll check this out :) Thank you!
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago(off-topic) Do you know any community for 'Self reporting symptoms of long COVID'[1]? [1]https://needgap.com/problems/170-self-reporting-symptoms-of-long-covid-health-covid https://needgap.com/problems/170-self-reporting-symptoms-of-...
- nurbel 6y agoThe page feels very weird to me. Why so much marketing speak for free covid illustrations? It just reads to me like a big advert for the illustrations store behind. Do people really respond better when they are told their fight will be supercharged with all the awesome features?
- andyydao 6y agoI'm sorry to hear you feel that way, it may be because I'm used to writing copy for other products I have haha. "Do people really respond better when they are told their fight will be supercharged with all the awesome features?" - Good question, I'm not sure but hopefully people will!
- noeltock 6y agoThink it's designed to be a viral self-promotion piece, hence the attribution part in CC.
- rsynnott 6y agoThese are great, though I'm not sure "toilet paper hoarder" counts as fighting against covid. If anything, that one's a minor victory for covid :)
- andyydao 6y agohaha very true! Although I still plan to stock up on a few rolls ;)
- bookmarkable 6y agoExcellent work, thank you.
- andyydao 6y agoIt's my pleasure :)
- ekianjo 6y ago> Wear a mask Still waiting for a very convincing evidence that most masks that people use actually do something. Agree that even with the lack of evidence, it's probably better to wear one, but it's pitiful that by the end of 2020 we still don't really know for sure.
- michaelbrooks 6y agoHow about a slow-mo video of sneezing with and without a mask?[0] It clearly shows the amount of spray caused by wearing and not wearing a mask. I know there can be micro particles not shown by film, but it does give a much clearer example of how effective masks can be. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs
- contravariant 6y agoThe parts we do know aren't exactly reassuring, but they're limited to the physical properties of masks (i.e. do they stop aerosols / particles). It's somewhat hard to test how big an effect they have on preventing infections since it's nigh impossible to control the other variables (ethically).
- overcast 6y agoI mean other than that doctors have been wearing them for centuries at this point?
- tethys 6y agoRecent study [0]: "We found that cotton masks, surgical masks, and N95 masks all have a protective effect with respect to the transmission of infective droplets/aerosols of SARS-CoV-2 and that the protective efficiency was higher when masks were worn by a virus spreader." [0] https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20 https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20
- jader201 6y ago> and that the protective efficiency was higher when masks were worn by a virus spreader So does this mean that between: - virus spreader wearing a mask + non-virus spreader not wearing a mask And: - virus spreader not wearing a mask + non-virus spreader wearing a mask The former is safer for the non-virus spreader? Meaning that we’re more dependent on those spreading the virus to be diligent about wearing masks, vs. those not infected to be wearing masks? I’m trying to make sense of why we’re seeing more cases now vs. earlier in the year when there was less knowledge and awareness of masks, and this might partially explain it.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoI love your art style! :)
- johnx123-up 6y agoNice. What software did you use?
- CPLX 6y agoJust out of curiosity is there a name for this visual style? It's sort of a cartoonish cutesy flat design thing that you typically associate with explainer text on a website or subway ads or similar. It seems common with the generation of consumer facing companies that launched about 10 years ago and since, I'm thinking of Warby Parker or Oscar Insurance as examples among many others. It also seems to be heavily influenced by a Japanese style of "cute" marketing I remember from trips to Tokyo. In my head I've always considered it to be something like the "millennial marketing" style but I wonder if designers have an actual name for it.
- conflictswith 6y agoThe pejorative name is "corporate memphis". See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890877
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- jablan 6y agoThey have something Asian about them. Not that this is good or bad per se, but I wonder if they work equally well everywhere.
- henriquez 6y agoHow do you know they are Asian?
- ArnoVW 6y agoUse of animals. Exagerated display of emotion (happy, unhappy). To get an idea, type "kawaii" in Google images. Or check wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
- ipqk 6y agoAsia is 60% of the population of the world.
- jablan 6y agoThat makes it mostly good then.
- CyberRabbi 6y agoIt seems geared towards kids to me
- CyberRabbi 6y agoWhat is the intended audience or setting for these illustrations? Is this to teach young children or for use in elementary schools?
- imjustsaying 6y agoDystopian flat art, made available for free. Is this the new normal?
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- JKCalhoun 6y agoGuessing you're not the audience for the art.
- chad_strategic 6y agoAlthough it's already been said, great work! Thanks for putting out some positive energy on the internet.
- secretsanta 6y agoThose look slick, keep up the good work.
- zwlee90 6y agoeverything looks like diaper packaging now http://jollo.org/LNT/public/nursery.html http://jollo.org/LNT/public/nursery.html
- hairytrog 6y agotruly infantile.
- JKCalhoun 6y agoI like. Was expecting something scarier.... "Wash Hands" and "Swab Test" could use some "ethnic variety". The rest, with animals, are universal in that regard.
- swyx 6y agoah, i collect these! here's my list of free illustrations for anyone else looking https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#illustrations https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#ill...
- aj7 6y agoAnd here I was expecting beautiful renderings of the constituent proteins of SARS-CoV-2.
- lucb1e 6y agoFYI the page remains blank for me for a few seconds. I actually thought it was dead, since the loading was long done, and hit the back button before it flashed the page at me at roughly the same moment as I hit the back button. I've heard of AMP doing this but there are probably more things. From a quick look in the network tool, it seems to be waiting for twenty-odd requests going to your third party chat integration.
- Balgair 6y agoAmazing work! Thanks for the assistance to everyone else out there! Semi-related: The Noun Project is also a great resource for free icons : https://thenounproject.com/ https://thenounproject.com/
- kissgyorgy 6y agoHere are some more I collected: * https://undraw.co/illustrations https://undraw.co/illustrations HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858822 * https://www.drawkit.io/peach https://www.drawkit.io/peach * https://icons8.com/ouch https://icons8.com/ouch * https://www.humaaans.com/ https://www.humaaans.com/ * https://www.manypixels.co/ https://www.manypixels.co/ * https://craftwork.design/ https://craftwork.design/ * https://webpixels.io/illustrations https://webpixels.io/illustrations * https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes https://www.pixeltrue.com/frontliner-heroes
- amelius 6y agohttps://blog.prototypr.io/are-we-designing-for-children-an-analysis-of-infantilisation-from-a-design-perspective-b718fdf0381 https://blog.prototypr.io/are-we-designing-for-children-an-a...
- zestyping 6y agoI don't understand why Mummy, Couch Potato, and Toilet Paper Hoarder are part of the set. What are they for? What is Quarantine Life intended to communicate?
- nullpilot 6y agoI took the liberty to turn these into a Telegram sticker pack: https://t.me/addstickers/Frontliners https://t.me/addstickers/Frontliners (credit included) Given how TG is being used to spread misinformation, having more positive and helpful content on there can't hurt