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Book design, dissected
| Gwendolyn Smith
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
| Cassidy Phillips
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Eels and feels
| Ruth Garde
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
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Genius spirits and the mystery of creative inspiration
| Anna Faherty
Once upon a time, we all had a genius.
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Not one yoga, but many yogas
| Lalita Kaplish
From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people.