Yuliya Parshina-Kottas spent hours creating hand-painted illustrations for “Bad Future, Better Future,” a climate change guide for children.
The New York Times reently profiled ITP alum Yuliya Parshina-Kottas and her project:
Climate change can be an unsettling subject for anyone, but it can be downright frightening for children. To explain the topic to young people, The New York Times’s Climate desk published a guide, “Bad Future, Better Future,” which includes ways they can help the environment.
To make the subject a little more accessible, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, a visual journalist on the Graphics desk, created hand-painted illustrations using a type of watercolor called gouache. In an interview, she discussed the inspiration and intent behind the images. Her lightly edited answers are below.