covid good news
YEAR
2020
INFO
From our about page: "Covid Good News is a place for you to find all the good news and feel-good stories about COVID-19." At the beginning of the pandemic myself and a couple of colleagues from IDEO got burnt out from all the morbid headlines we were being bombarded with and wanted to put together a more positive outlet for people to turn to for the time being. Covid Good News attempts to archive the joyful moments from that time.
Covid Good News landing page. From here you can see a live feed of the curated stories. The site uses Airtable as its database which made it easy for the team to add stories to a spreadsheet and have it be automatically sent to the website from there.
We had a brief campaign during which we sold these shirts. All of the proceeds when to local mutual aid funds and we ended up selling about a hundred of them and raising about $800.
Section on the website that acts as a directory of free services being provided as a result of Covid.
Section of the website that acts as a directory of ways to help during Covid.
I also contributed some illustrations here and there as well.
The associated Instagram and an example of the kind of dumb, light "news" we tried to aim for.
For the site, I decided to make use of Airtable as an API because it made it very easy for any of our five team members to go in and update/add any of the stories whenever they needed. These changes would be immediately reflected on the site. Airtable was also helpful because it gave us an easy way to sort through the submission form.
