👉 Your dose of real time pandemic designs. 📲 Digitally archived for future historians. 📚 As ft. in The NYT, FT, Icon, V&A, and Disegno Journal.
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7 Feb 2022
Inside the Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker: nyer.cm/W64JjOH
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17 Jan 2022
Whose police is using the (supposedly private by design) data coming from government-sponsored anti-COVID technologies? In Jan 2022, German police comes under fire for misusing logs from contact tracing app "Luca". dw.com/en/german-police-unde…
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21 Jan 2022
'This shortlist shows the potent alchemy of bringing together the arts and sciences to tackle urgent global challenges.'
The #TerraCarta Design Lab is featured in @Telegraph with RCA design innovators @notpla and @EpisodStudio 💫 💫
Read at the link ↓
bit.ly/3nOg2ib
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6 Jan 2022
UK reports 179,756 new Covid cases as Omicron surge continues theguardian.com/world/2022/j…
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6 Jan 2022
The 15th century plague doctor mask that has been preserved over the years and is currently on display in the German Museum of Medical History in Ingolstadt. This was the first design of the plague mask.
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3 Dec 2021
Graphic design visualisation of the spread of the #Omicron globally.
3 Dec 2021
On Nov. 26, the World Health Organization named the Omicron variant of the coronavirus a new variant of concern, even as questions about its impact remain. Track its spread here. nyti.ms/3DggSJD
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27 Nov 2021
Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them? theguardian.com/books/2021/n…
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27 Nov 2021
Effigy of Guy Fawkes in mask with vaccine needles in his arms in Lewes mol.im/a/10169881 via @MailOnline
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26 Nov 2021
Our Clothing the pandemic event is coming up on 1 December, 2-5pm Paris time free registration eventbrite.fr/e/billets-clot…
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4 Nov 2021
World Digital Preservation Day is the first Thursday of every November. This years theme ’Breaking Down Barriers’ focuses digital preservation supporting digital connections & creating lasting value. WDPD aims to create widespread awareness of digital preservation in society.
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28 Oct 2021
🩺 Dr. Wise Will See You Now 🩺
Pandemics have long-held status as fictional devices but silent film 'Dr. Wise on Influenza' (1919) is one of the few surviving UK-based films with information on the 1918 influenza pandemic. 1/2
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28 Oct 2021
Part fact and part fiction, it was commissioned through the Local Government Board as an informational film and public health. 2/2.
@SonyaBattla2 @dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft #tbt
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26 Oct 2021
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@britishlibrary @BL_VisualArts
#photo album (Photo 311/1): the Plague Visitation, 1896-97. It documents the city of Bombay at the onset of the devastating bubonic plague pandemic of 1896. blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-africa…
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23 Oct 2021
Marie Bee Bloom invented these brilliant rice paper masks that are biodegradable. They are embedded with flower seeds and will bloom once thrown into the soil. @dezeen @mariebeebloom
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21 Oct 2021
Disease and death have always been part of living in London.
While modern medical science and public health systems have enabled us to defend against plagues and pandemics, the people who walked London’s streets before us had to rely on other resources. #TBT #DesignInQuarantine
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21 Oct 2021
This lead scroll is inscribed with a protective spell or prayer to the gods; invoking their protection for the amulet’s owner, a man named Demetrios. Found in the Thames, it may have been thrown in deliberately as a ritual offering.
ALT Image of a Roman scroll inscribed with prayers to protect against illness
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21 Oct 2021
In medieval London, cheap lead badges purchased as souvenirs of holy pilgrimages were believed to protect the wearer against sickness. Many Londoners undertook pilgrimages to Canterbury, to the shrine of the London-born martyr Thomas Becket. #ThrowbackThursday #PandemicLife
ALT Photo of a holy medal from a pilgrimage to Canterbury believed to protect the wearer against illness
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