Nicholas Rougeux is a Chicago web designer who, through complicated color schemes and simplifications, can transform anything into a graphic.
On his website, you can go to see all his past works, where you can see his passion for art, colors, but also for history and literature.

These same interests are the basis of his latest project titled “Title Cities“, in which Nicholas Rougeux helps with the frontispieces of old manuals and scientific writings, transforming them first into a set of geometric shapes and then into colorful skylines, but let’s go in order.

The frontispieces of ancient books, unlike today’s, do not only present the title and the author, but also a series of information that end up occupying the entire page. Moreover, all these elements are written with different calligraphy and dimensions, creating movement on the page.
After selecting some manuals, Nicholas Rougeux took every single word of the cover and replaced them with rectangles that respected their length and size. Secondly, these shapes were colored following a color code that follows the alphabet, for which words beginning with “a” have one color, those with “b” another and so on.
Finally, Nicholas Rougeux took all the colored rectangles and used them to form what appears as multicolor skylines. Thus each manual became an urban landscape.

Title Cities posters can be purchased online and follow Nicholas on Instagram so you don’t miss his next works!