Stories
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
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Fantasies of the future
How accurately can we imagine the future? These past prognostications suggest that we cannot escape the pull of our own time and its biases.
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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
Catalogue
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Contentment, a poem. By the Rev. Robert Barker, M.A.
Barker, Robert, Rev.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Autarkeia: or, the art of Divine Contentment. By Thomas Watson, Pastor of St. Stephen's Walbrook.
Watson, Thomas, -1686.Date: 1708- Books
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Practical discourses on moral subjects. ... . On Gratitude. Humility. Veracity. Chastity. Temperance. Contentment. Industry. By William Dodwell, M. A. Rector of Shottesbrook, Berks.
Dodwell, William, 1709-1785.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The malster's garland. Composed of Two Excellent New Songs. 1. The Landlord and Malster. 2. The Poor Man's Resolution for Contentment. Licenced and entered according to Order.
Date: 1770?]- Books
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Poems By Thomas Parnell, D.D. containing The hermit, Contentment, To an old beauty, On death, Imitation, Songs, Health, An anacreontic; to which is prefixed, A sketch of the author's life.
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.Date: Anno 1797