“Calgary Foundation’s Vital Signs is an annual report measuring our city’s quality of life, providing a yearly snapshot of where our heads are at. For many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 wasn’t defined by what we had but by what we missed—each other. Our shifting feelings about the physical touch of others, how we both yearned for and were afraid of it, became the fundamental visual language. We leveraged the new meanings and associations we have with touch and contact to frame the unusual context of this year’s report.”
