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Irina Blok is maybe best known for creating the original “bugdroid” logo for Android, Google’s mobile operating system. These days, however, the Silicon Valley designer is creating cartoons that make light of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and quarantines around the world.
Blok said she wanted to help fight COVID-19 with humor.
“I’ve started creating a bunch of designs as a way of dealing with the stress of pandemic,” she wrote on her website. “I am hoping to raise awareness and provide some comic relief from our daily struggles.”
The cartoons are not her only coronavirus-related project. Blok recently updated an 11-year-old business concept she debuted on the first season of ABC’s “Shark Tank”: face masks. Back then, Blok pitched her custom mask designs amid the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Her idea was rejected by the investors on the series — but maybe now they would say it was ahead of its time.
Blok has added a face mask to Thomas Jefferson’s profile on the quarter and unveiled a series of coronavirus-edition redesigns of the U.S. coin as well as releasing mock-ups of custom toilet paper roll designs and hand sanitizer emoji.
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