C82 - The works and words of Nicholas Rougeux

A big project is something special.

Researching is like treasure hunting—following clue after clue in the hopes of finding something amazing.

I’ve long loved astronomy.

Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way.

Recreating Mose Harris’ color wheels from the eighteenth century seemed straightforward until it wasn’t.

I used to have boring health.

“Patience” was this project’s theme.

Hummingbirds are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs like the T. rex—one of many fascinating facts I learned while working on the digital edition of A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds.

Fifteen years have passed since the last official update on my Metra Ticket Gallery.

Unlike previous projects, I designed the poster based on Earhart’s 1892 treatise, The Color Printer before giving much thought to the design of the website.

Architecture has repeatedly grabbed my attention since I was young—from studying it in high school and creating buildings in video games to designing websites for firms winning architectural awards.

I work best with existing material—whether that be images, ideas, spreadsheets, documentation, books, etc.

Way back in 2014, a Dutch manuscript about mixing watercolors from 1692 made a splash in the blogosphere, because while it was centuries old, few had given it much attention and it was such a beautifully preserved thorough account of how watercolors were…