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Interactive Guest Essay, “1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid,” The New York Times
This is a Interactive guest essay. By Giorgia Lupi for The New York Times; Produced by Pentagram (Giorgia Lupi, Phillip Cox, Madeleine Garner, Gabrielle Merite, Jacopo Poletto, Tommaso Renzini and Julia Saimo), Decimal (Guillermo Brotons, Nathan Gordon, Gabrielle Harlid, Kirsten Holland, Nate Minnick, Alex Muñoz and Chérif Zouein), and The New York Times (Jeremy Ashkenas). It is dated December 14, 2023 and we acquired it in 2024. Its medium is original: software (interaction design, web-based). documentation: web archive and video. It is a part of the Digital department.
The video above is a screenrecording that documents a possible interaction with the piece.
"1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid" is an interactive guest essay by Giorgia Lupi, a data visualization and information designer, published in the Opinion section of The New York Times. The essay conveys Lupi’s experiences living with long COVID. She gathered and used data from her life to visually render the depth and intensity of her story, making visible an invisible illness.
Lupi tracked her daily symptoms and medical interventions on a spreadsheet, which she visualized as a calendar beginning March 10, 2020 and ending December 14, 2023. Each symptom from the spreadsheet became a painted brushstroke of color on each day that Lupi experienced it. Dots, lines, hashes, and other small symbols signify contextual details, such as doctor visits, medications, needles, and therapies.
Produced by Pentagram, Decimal, and The Times, the story uses rich digital media to reveal Lupi’s journey. Medical records pile up. A screen recording pans over her spreadsheet. Hand-written notes pair with painted brushstrokes, lending tactility to the digital work. Hundreds of responses to the prompt, "I hope I will be able to ____ again," from Lupi’s long-COVID community scatter across and fill the screen.
Lupi uses the brushstrokes as a visual metaphor for a life colored by long COVID. The brushstrokes subsume blank space. They pour down the side of the screen and around the essay’s title. They accumulate on top of an illustrated outline of a body, blotting out the figure underneath. They fill the calendar illustration. At the end of the piece, they are erased to reveal the last two sentences, suggesting the desire of those afflicted by long COVID to live life without the brushstrokes of illness.
It is credited © The New York Times and Pentagram/Decimal, acquired with permission and cooperation of The New York Times and Giorgia Lupi .
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Interactive Guest Essay, “1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid,” The New York Times; Designed by Giorgia Lupi (Italian, b. 1981); Produced by Pentagram (United Kingdom), Decimal, The New York Times; original: software (interaction design, web-based). documentation: web archive and video; © The New York Times and Pentagram/Decimal, acquired with permission and cooperation of The New York Times and Giorgia Lupi ; 2024-14-4
