Peter Stanbury
The front cover of the Asda magazine for March 2010 looks delicious. So delicious I have kept it in plain sight on the coffee table for weeks. Mouthwatering domestic bliss with four fairy cakes on a pink plate and it shouts Yummy Mummy for Mother’s...
DetailsSometimes I am attracted to an artefact purely because of its colours. I have often wondered why I can be so taken with the beauty of a thing. When this happens I create a palette of the colours to try in some way to preserve them. Colours attract us not purely because of the combination...
DetailsPaul Otlet dreamed from an early age of capturing all human knowledge in a bibliographical system. Together with Nobel peace prize winner, Henri La Fontaine, he created the Mundaneum in 1910, an immense catalogue of hundreds of thousands of index cards. A uptopian “city of reason” later housed within the magnificent Palais du Cinquantenaire, in...
DetailsPostage stamp design is a meticulous, formal, and public art offering a tiny window on a vast world....
DetailsPostage stamp design is a meticulous, formal, and public art offering a tiny window on a vast world....
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