Found a great font led me to redefine the entire feel of a project. Love it when that happens.

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

The end of my current project is coming up fast. It sneaks up on me for every project. Ordered a test print of the nifty poster and getting things planned. Still a few more things to hunt down and of course a blog post to write. So much to write about…I’m excited.

I've reached the phase of this project where it requires access to the Internet for research but I can't use my mobile hotspot because I chew through data like no one's business and I don't have an unlimited plan. So now I spend my commutes not working on it and that feels weird.

Libraries and librarians are awesome. That is all.

Past me: I should track down all the sources, it shouldn't be too bad. Present me: I identified 400, tracked down more than 300, and I'm only ~50% done. Will I reach 1,000? Future me: That was worth it...right?

Spent hours tracking down a 100+ year old reference to a 500+ year old source only to find it was wrong and then found the correct 500+ year old source. Not easy but very satisfying.

My current project has many, many, many footnotes and I'm determined to hunt down and link to every source I can find. So much good stuff buried in there.

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.

Jason totally gets me here. 👍

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

🎊Part 3 of my #dataviz trilogy OUT NOW🎊 What if next wave of innovation comes from what we currently call “Unusual” (ie data sculptures & hyper-local events)? I explore “data experiences” & how deep community connection might drive meaningful cultural impact. 🔗 www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202...

Research and persistence pays off! I discovered a very obscure answer to a very obscure question that probably only matters to me but I can't wait to tell everyone about it. More very soon.

Writing a blog post that's sitting at 6,500 words so far and growing. This one is really fun to write and is probably more interesting than the project itself.

Anyone in New York with a New York Public Library card willing to help me out with a very niche project? Please send me a chat for more info.

Test print of new project arrived. So good! Can't wait to share it. More coming soon.

Fantastic must read article by @moritzstefaner.bsky.social on the crisis (or not) in #dataviz Very well articulated and resonates deeply with me: truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

The goal for my latest project is proving to be deceptively simple—ironic considering the material. When I figure out a solution my efforts should make for an interesting blog post.

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

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

Writin’ a fun blog post. Very colorful.

Me: I’m just going to do a small project. Nothing fancy. Also me: But what if... Me: Okay... 🫠

📣 NEW WORK - Part II! 📣 Another GitHub-focused visualization. This time revealing the top contributors to any repository and the other projects they’ve worked on, highlighting synergies across repos: nbremer.github.io/ORCA/top-con... 🧵👇

📣 NEW WORK 📣 nbremer.github.io/ORCA/commit-... I worked with Mozilla Builders and created 2 interactive visuals around GitHub repositories and the contributors who are working hard to improve these projects. This 1st visual reveals the entire commit history, clustered per month.

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.

Such a beautiful project.

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

A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can. Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.

A kind of abstract butterfly collection, which doubles as a playground for recreational mathematics: www.bewitched.com/demo/fractio...

I’ve made a lot of posters (and some puzzles) over the years. Now, they’re all available in one place in my new shop: www.c82.net/shop. One easy place to find gifts for friends, family, or yourself…and maybe discover something new.

Hello to all my new recent followers! I wish it was easier to learn more about you. Please let me know if I already followed you elsewhere but haven't here. I'm looking to follow more interesting people and things here.

Over the last difficult, grief-filled month I've found some solace in making. I'm happy to finally be able to share something with you: Every Bird is a series of artworks celebrating the astounding diversity of the world's birds and the tenacity of its birders. 🪶📊 www.jerthorp.me/post/every-b...

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

Test prints arrived and oh my did they turn out well. I'm very pleased. More to come soon.

Writing making-of blog posts is a bizarre experience: dreadfully daunting beforehand, frustrating yet exhilarating during, and bittersweet afterward. They’re never enough but also too long. Still, I enjoy telling everyone about the nerdy details. This is all to say that a new one is underway.

After staring at the same project while I build it out for the past 11 months, I still enjoy browsing through it. That’s a good sign, right? Test prints have been ordered. Hope they turn out well.

Eleven months of prepping source material finally done. Now to make something.

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

Hi all you nice new followers on here. I've been quiet recently but more is coming!

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.

Anyone know of an easy way to manipulate a bunch of custom irregular shapes in a 2D plane where moving one pushes anything it touches around—like moving geometric tiles around in a physical space, but digitally? Feels like I'm missing out on an easy way to do this.

Silly fun with a test

Getting the real palette now. Still early days.

Photoshop’s “Remove Background” quick action is pretty cool when it works and pretty weird when it doesn’t. How it decides what to keep and remove seems random at times. I wish there was a way to fine tune it.

That roller coaster of emotions when you realize your source material is incomplete and the backup sources are worse off. Then finding a new source that's even better than all of them. Whew.