Design in Quarantine

👉 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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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Inside the Anniversary Issue of The New Yorker: https://t.co/iT2LiVVZHq

[Casilli @AntonioCasilli]

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". https://t.co/3IiagFm64b

[Royal College of Art @RCA]

'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 ↓
https://t.co/PNO4AK5uIS

[The Guardian @guardian]

UK reports 179,756 new Covid cases as Omicron surge continues https://t.co/YbFBwayalf

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

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.

#archaeohistories

[Reuters @Reuters]

AstraZeneca, Oxford aim to produce Omicron-targeted vaccine https://t.co/2QrAni0YKB

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Graphic design visualisation of the spread of the #Omicron globally.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

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. https://t.co/lvIfCIa8rj

[The Guardian @guardian]

Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them? https://t.co/0jFRwEYPHr

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Effigy of Guy Fawkes in mask with vaccine needles in his arms in Lewes https://t.co/jxmWXGmDPA via @MailOnline

[ICOM Costume @ICOMCostume]

Our Clothing the pandemic event is coming up on 1 December, 2-5pm Paris time free registration https://t.co/wE17XGGIhl

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Still relevant!

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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.

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

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

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

🩺 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
@SonyaBattla2 @dsgnhistorian @cyriennebft #tbt

[BL Asian and African @BLAsia_Africa]

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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. https://t.co/SjaQMhlOUc
#Tuesdaythoughts

[Design in Quarantine @Design_inQ]

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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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

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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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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.