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Our best illustrations of 2020

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December 31, 2020

From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the year:

Zooming
DOGBOY
Algostory 1.7: “Krishna and Arjuna”
ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAX LOEFFLER
How Germany tamed covid-19
PATRICK LEGER
sharing misinformation
How the truth was murdered
NAJEEBAH AL-GHADBAN
10 Breakthrough Technologies: Unhackable internet
YOSHI SODEOKA
bicycles
Why you don’t really know what you know
We put our team of writers to the test when we asked them to draw a bicycle from memory in 5 minutes. We ended up with such a great group of bikes that we decided to use them for story art.
conceptual illustration showing a police hat with overlapped nueral network that's being dismantled.
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
FRANZISKA BARCZYK

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