vintage

RJ Andrews digs up the PC archives of charting software. Scrolling through the…

Mel Dollison and Liza Daly made a fun interactive that lets you upload…

Muir Way updates vintage relief maps with a third dimension. Pretty. The above…

RJ Andrews, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center, curated a collection…

This past month an old chart type poked its head out from behind the trees and I’m here for it.

If you’re looking for visual inspiration, one or two centuries back is a good place to start.

Geographer Tim Wallace likes to look at old maps, and is particularly fond…

John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…

This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…

Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…

I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…

Graham Douglas, a data journalist at The Economist, looks back on the days…

By Raymond Loewy, this chart from 1934 shows the shifts in design of…

The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…

In 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois and his students drew a series…

I have an affinity for new things designed as old things, so this…

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…

Geoff McGhee for National Geographic highlights a handful of projects that form a…

A quick, three-step tutorial on how to make maps that look vintage in the open source QGIS. [via]

From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these…