Chartography

Color Engineering

The tool that snaps mercurial design into mechanical focus.

15 hrs ago • 

RJ Andrews

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September 2025

Clarity Unbound

Restoring Radiance to Information Design

Sep 17 • 

RJ Andrews

9

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"Factual Phenomena"

Georg von Mayr's 1877 statistical lines, rectangles, circles, and triangles.

Sep 3 • 

RJ Andrews

7

August 2025

"An Appeal to the Eye"

William Playfair's 1801 chart offensive.

Aug 5 • 

RJ Andrews

7

July 2025

"My Maps Speak"

Minard's reflections on his useful idea, part 2.

Jul 29 • 

RJ Andrews

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"Illustration Invades Everything"

Minard on his useful idea, part 1.

Jul 22 • 

RJ Andrews

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"A Saner and Richer Civilization"

Karl G. Karsten's 1923 prophetic hopes.

Jul 15 • 

RJ Andrews

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"The Eyes of History"

DuBourg hijacks the tools of cartography to visualize time.

Jul 8 • 

RJ Andrews

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"Completely New Perspectives—More Eloquent and Richer than All Others"

Physicist Felix Auerbach's 1914 introduction to graphic representation.

Jul 1 • 

RJ Andrews

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June 2025

"Stripped of Verbal Sham—Vivid, Unescapable"

Henry D. Hubbard's 1939 foreward to Graphic Presentation.

Jun 24 • 

RJ Andrews

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"The Supreme Rule—Clarity"

Levasseur's show-stopper at the Statistical Society Jubilee.

Jun 17 • 

RJ Andrews

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A Third Double-Shot of Inspiration

Colorful partners from there and then.

Jun 3 • 

RJ Andrews

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