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These NYTimes end-of-year illustration wrap-ups are the best form of ‘year wrapped’. Some of my favourites from 2024:

An illustration showing different plants with numbers in a variety of colors.
José Quintanar
Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy
An illustration of five people putting a giant pizza into a pizza oven.
Branche Coverdale
A Project That Celebrates Collaboration and Cooperation
An illustration of a zoomed in pile of goldfish with giant eyes and puckered lips. There are small water bubbles in various places.
Bill Mayer

The Great Goldfish invasion

An animated pixel illustration of a person blending into a crossword pattern.
Mathieu Labrecque

Easy Mode

A colored pencil and rendered drawing of a baseball player up to bat. Surrounding the player are different colored line drawings of various people.
Yann Kebbi
All Those Coaches, All in Their Ears
This illustration depicts an embroidered bouquet of colorful flowers tied at the stems with an orange ribbon.
Jillian Tamaki
A Bouquet of Ideas
Daniel Savage
Opinion | The Intensification of JD Vance
An illustration of a person's head in which the brain is depicted as a person under mental stress.
Mia Oberländer
Opinion | We Know Mental Health Affects Physical Health. Why Don't We Act Like It?