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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.

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  • Chinese materia medica (Ming), .Contents page
  • Contents of the abdominal cavity. Line engraving.
  • Table of Contents of Journal of the Linnean Society.
  • Hand written contents page from a Medical Tracts volume
  • Contents of a Breverl, showing the emblems of various Saints.
  • Japanese wooden mechanical fly-trap, with emptied contents. Photograph, 1905/1915.
  • Contents page to 'Studies in Bioloy and Pathology' in Creighton's handwriting
  • A histogram comparing the vitamin C content of various foods. Colour lithograph.
  • A histogram comparing the vitamin C content of various foods. Colour lithograph.
  • Contents of grave of a Greek Aural doctor, ca. 3rd century
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