There were times when people intensively tried to predict what the future would hold for us. What kind of innovations would enter our life and how advanced humankind is going to be. Then the pandemic hit. It brought chaos and uncertainty, which only made it speculate more about what is going to be next for people and their lives. Are we ever going to get back to “normal”? Maybe all these temporary measures are what our future is going to be?
Tomer Hanuka who is an illustrator and art teacher in The School of Visual Arts located in New York, gave his 3rd year illustration students an assignment: to create a post-pandemic cover image for The New Yorker. He shared his students’ works on Twitter where they went viral: the post got 132k likes and was retweeted 35.4k times. It also received a lot of appraising comments on this social media channel.
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For the last assignment right before the end of the semester, the teacher asked his students to create a fake cover for The New Yorker and try to present a world after the pandemic ends. The illustrations are full of details that show everyday life actualities and aspirations of what might wait for us in the future. Since these covers are so realistic, to avoid confusion, the logo of The New Yorker was later changed to Old New World, which honestly depicts the topic even better.
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