New: I went on a months-long treasure hunt for 1,200+ books spanning 450+ years to digitize Daniel Updike’s Printing Types from 1922, detailing the history of printing and typography. Made a nifty poster too.

Explore: www.c82.net/printing-types
How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=100

New: I recreated Tomas Wright’s 1742 astronomical treatise, Clavis Cælestis, and its accompanying sheets titled A Synopsis of the Universe. New posters are available in antique style and modern colors.

Explore: www.c82.net/clavis-caele...
How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=99

Extreme closeup of current project in progress. Living life at 4800% zoom.

New: I recreated and colorized one of the first org charts in American business history depicting the New York and Erie Railroad from 1855. I also wrote about its history, how I made it, and uncovering a long-lost piece.

Posters: www.c82.net/work/?id=398
How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=98

New project: I recreated Moses Harris’ prismatic and compound color wheels from The Natural System of Colours published in the eighteenth century and expanded them to dark versions.

Explore: www.c82.net/natural-colors
How they were made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=97

First drafts suck. They’re supposed to. They’re also awesome because the final version can’t exist without them. I love looking back on early drafts to see how they evolve into the final result. What do your first drafts and final versions look like? I’ll start with a few of mine.

Bit of a shameless plug, but I made an arc diagram to visualize which terms are mentioned where in an antique typography dictionary: www.c82.net/typography/#.... It's visually very busy but it it's an arc diagram nonetheless.

Now for something different and more personal. I wrote about data I collected about myself while learning to live with chronic nausea for the past 14 months. Living with Nausea: My Story in Six Charts. www.c82.net/blog/?id=96

New project 11 months in the making! Lilies & Roses of P.J. Redouté. I created a digital edition of two of his most stunning collections of illustrations from 1802–1833. Colorful posters and an in-depth blog post about how it was made:
Explore: www.c82.net/work/?id=396
Blog: www.c82.net/blog?id=95

This is fun to do for the new followers. Good idea. My claim to fame are my digital editions of antique scientific publications and data art projects. I've been working on them for many years now and they're available on my personal site at www.c82.net.

Interesting color palette emerging from this dataset. Not done yet.

Byrne’s Euclid now has a dark mode. A fun update on a classic project. Plus, a new dark poster. www.c82.net/euclid

What a nifty surprise! My British & Exotic Mineralogy project made a brief cameo at Apple's 2024 WWDC as it zoomed toward the camera as a flying thumbnail.

Every spare minute of the last 7 months has been spent on a ton of manual work for a new project. Probably 6–7 more to go. Tedious but enjoyable. Automations could cut corners but quality wouldn't meet my standards. Hope it’ll be worth it. I think it will. Enjoy a tiny preview.

Slowly but surely collecting some interesting data. Lots more to come but playing with it is fun.

Silly fun with a test

Getting the real palette now. Still early days.

First pass at color extraction to get a sense of the data. Lots of refinement to do. I keep coming back to this simple but handy method of organizing colors as a nice way to get a sense of the data: sort by hue, split into equal buckets, sort each bucket by brightness. Shift as necessary.