Matt Hill

Design, etc.

Hello. I’m Matt Hill, a professional digital designer and developer, currently working on gov.uk. In my spare time I make other digital things by combining my interests in art and design, buildings, nature, games and books.

The Plumed Partridge (Oreortyx plumifera) is one of 18 birds depicted in Icones Avium, a nineteenth century publication by John and Elizabeth Gould that I’m converting into a digital edition. Hand coloured lithograph of two Plumed Partridges, by Elizabeth Gould. The birds have a red throat with white stripe, a grey head and neck, brown wing and tail feathers and ornate breast feathers in shades of red, brown orange and grey.
The Plumed Partridge (Oreortyx plumifera) is one of 18 birds depicted in Icones Avium, a nineteenth century publication by John and Elizabeth Gould that I’m converting into a digital edition.

From the Journal

Icones Avium Dev Diary #1: Background 

Elizabeth and John Gould published a vast oeuvre of natural history books in the nineteenth century. Their work had a profound and long-la…

Low-key relaunch 

Hello there, welcome back. I’ve relaunched my website after five years offline. (Well, more or less: I wrote a few things in 2023 but didn’t publish them.) I’ve been working on a new portfolio website…

Retrospective blogging 

I noticed that Terence Eden is adding old posts to his blog: things that happened before he started blogging. He calls it necroposting: inserting earlier events into his blog years after they happened. He based it on an idea by John Hicks, a designer I’ve been following for years.