The Thomas Nashe Project: illustrations for a scholarly website
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject/
In cooperation with the associate editor, Kate de Rycker, I created illustrations for the website of The Thomas Nashe Project in 2015, when the online appearance of the project was planned and reorganised. The homepage was intended as an online research tool, additional to the new paper edition of the Renaissance writer's works by Oxford University Press. The banner was planned to be the online "face" of the project. We chose images, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century prints, that were connected to Nashe's writings, and could represent his ideas visually. Each work by Nashe was paired with the digitally drawn copy of an early modern print. These drawings were used for the grid menu system individually, and they were put together in a digital collage for the banner. We also used texts of the early modern printed editions of Nashe's writings in the final version. For the titles, we chose dark red, the colour that was used in inks of the period as well.
The technique of digitally drawn copies of prints gives a nice twist to the story of early modern printed material: the illustrations look hand-drawn but at the same time they refer to early modern print culture, and reflect the visual world that the Renaissance author was living in his own time.
banner for the website of the The Thomas Nashe Project
grid menu guiding the readers to Nashe's works, each one with an illustration connected to the writing in topic
