★ a.u.p. series:“the corona diaries” ★
When the Pandemic hit Paris, France in 2020, I was a Deputy Editor in my university’s Video Journalism Practicum class. Locked down in our apartments, we were forced to pivot from local news gathering to at-home vlogging.
The series of vlog compilations we went on to produce was called “The Corona Diaries,” for which I devised the visual identity on YouTube.
To emulate doodles in the margins of class notes or the front cover of a young person’s private journal, I chose a title font that looked like marker scrawls.
I illustrated unpolished, chalky doodles and utilized stills from vlogs as stickers to enhance the DIY, arts-and-crafts look.
When a new Editor in Chief took the reigns, I chose a new hand-drawn-looking font, as if to say the series was being written in a new hand.
