The blog post details the author's extensive research and creative process in creating a digital edition of Daniel Updike’s 'Printing Types.' The author reflects on their personal journey with typography, the challenges faced in s...
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6.1Printing Types
2025-09-20 • history design typography printing graphic design
Updike’s Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use; A Study in Survivals, released in 1922 and revised in 1937, is a comprehensive two-volume work detailing the history of printing and typography over nearly 450 years. It include...
The text discusses the recreation of Thomas Wright's astronomical illustrations from 1742, titled Clavis Cælestis: Being the Explication of a Diagram, Entituled a Synopsis of the Universe. The author describes the process of findi...
0Clavis Cælestis: A Synopsis of the Universe
2025-05-24 •
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The text discusses the history and recreation of the organizational diagram of the New York and Erie Railroad, drawn in 1855. It details the efforts to learn about its history, the source material, and the recreation process. The ...
The text discusses Daniel McCallum's organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad in 1855, highlighting its unique design and purpose to improve communication within the company.
0Making of The Natural System of Colours
2025-02-18 • design visual arts
The text discusses the process of recreating Mose Harris' color wheels from the eighteenth century digitally. It covers the source material, the structure of the color wheels, the process of mixing colors, and the final results. T...
0The Natural System of Colours
2025-02-18 •
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0Living With Nausea: My Story in Six Charts
2025-01-12 •
The author shares their experience of developing chronic nausea in late 2023, which has been debilitating and invisible. They describe the impact on their daily life, the challenges of finding a diagnosis and effective treatment, ...
0Making of Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté
2024-11-03 •
The blog post discusses the making of Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté by Nicholas Rougeux. It took 11 months to complete the project and involved restoring Redouté's illustrations. The post details the process of finding source mat...
0Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté
2024-11-03 •
The blog post discusses the restoration and reproduction of two famous works by P.J. Redouté—Les Liliacées and Les Roses. It details the process of restoring 655 illustrations to their original vibrancy and creating posters showca...
0Humming-Birds
2023-10-01 •
The blog post is about a faithful reproduction and restoration of John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds, a work of ornithological art and science. It consists of 5 volumes, each containing 360 hand...
0Making of Humming-Birds
2023-10-01 •
The blog post discusses the making of a digital edition of A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds by John Gould. The author shares the process of creating a digital edition, including the challenges faced and th...
0Metra ticket gallery updates
2023-08-27 •
The blog post discusses the updates to Nicholas Rougeux's Metra Ticket Gallery, which has grown to nearly 1,400 tickets. He shares his experiences with other collectors and Metra staff, as well as the recent additions to his colle...
0The Color Printer
2023-03-13 •
The blog post discusses the digital edition of The Color Printer, A Treatise on the Use of Colors, published in 1892 by Cincinnati printer John Franklin Earhart. It includes recreations of detailed illustrations, color mixtures, a...
0Making of The Color Printer
2023-03-13 •
The blog post discusses the making of The Color Printer by Nicholas Rougeux. It details the process of designing the poster and the digital edition, including the challenges faced and the tools used. The author also explains the p...
0Making of The Four Books of Architecture
2023-01-08 •
The blog post discusses the making of a digital edition of Palladio’s treatise, The Four Books of Architecture. The author describes finding source material, setting goals, creating the design, restoring illustrations, formatting ...
0The Four Books of Architecture
2023-01-08 •
The blog post discusses The Four Books of Architecture, a treatise by Italian architect Andrea Palladio, and the digital edition based on the 1738 English edition by Isaac Ware. It highlights the importance and influence of the pu...
0Geometric Primes
2022-11-12 •
Geometric Primes is a series of posters visualizing the complete set of three-digit prime numbers using basic geometric shapes based on squares, circles, and triangles. Each print contains all 143 prime numbers with 3 digits and i...
0Making of Mathematical Instruments
2022-09-18 •
Nicholas Rougeux discusses his process of creating a digital edition of Nicolas Bion’s treatise on mathematical instruments from 1709. He describes his research process, design choices, and the challenges he faced in transforming ...
0Mathematical Instruments
2022-09-18 •
Nicholas Rougeux reimagines and digitally publishes a 1758 treatise on mathematical instruments by French author Nicolas Bion, making it more accessible to everyone. The digital edition includes nearly 500 figures from the origina...
0Making of 17th Century Watercolors
2022-06-18 •
The blog post discusses the making of 17th-century watercolors from a Dutch manuscript about mixing watercolors from 1692. The manuscript contains details about mixing colors in specific ratios and provides a thorough account of m...
017th Century Watercolors
2022-06-18 •
A. Boogert's guidebook on mixing watercolors from 1692, Klaer Lightende Spiegel der Verfkonst, is an 800-page manuscript with 2,088 hand-painted samples. The book is split into two parts, illustrating the effects of diluting 42 'p...
0Painted Sandwiches
2022-05-15 •
The blog post discusses the Painted Sandwiches project by Nicholas Rougeux, which includes illustrations for 555 sandwich recipes from a 1909 book. The illustrations use simple painted brushstrokes to represent each ingredient and...