A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
.:|Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)|:. by SSt (2004), via.

.:|Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)|:. by SSt (2004), via.

By asciigod, 2009. An American warez man.

By asciigod, 2009. An American warez man.

“Woven Paint” by Robert Davidovitz (2009-2010)

ShapeMaker Wooden Toy by Miller Goodman (2009)

By Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, based in Stockholm. Hot grids!

Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom.

Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom.

Wiphala of Qulla Suyu, co-official flag of Bolivia since 2009, via. Thanks to Leonard Paul for the tip.

Wiphala of Qulla Suyu, co-official flag of Bolivia since 2009, via. Thanks to Leonard Paul for the tip.

From bfp.c64.org, a C-64 demoparty in Helsingborg (Sweden) in August. Petscii made by Frantic.

From bfp.c64.org, a C-64 demoparty in Helsingborg (Sweden) in August. Petscii made by Frantic.

The Teletext Babez video, with χχχ teletext pages from german cable TV collected by Dragan Espenschied and χχχ tune by Bodenständig 2000. It was broadcasted for the first time on October 6th 2001 on P.A.R.K. 4DTV Amsterdam.

Microtel was broadcasting on Nederlands 1, 2 & 3 NOS Teletext pages 450 - 455 during 26 January till 5 February in 2006. Project by Emma Davidson [Lektrogirl] and Paul B. Davis from Lektrolab as part of VBI [voluptuously blinking eye], read more here and watch all the submissions here.

mechanical head asciimation by brutto, 2005.

mechanical head asciimation by brutto, 2005.

Telemania 8 asciimation by brutto, 2005.

Telemania 8 asciimation by brutto, 2005.

gurafiku:

Poster: GTF/50 Projects. Graphic Thought Facility. 2006

gurafiku:

Poster: GTF/50 Projects. Graphic Thought Facility. 2006

Y O U - Moviekiss. Stop motion video made with 2400 frames of Lite Brite - a kids toy from the 1960s with glowing pixely arty.

Video made by Gina Niespodziani, 2006. Surprisingly good looking!

Typewriter works by Lee Etheredge IV. Wonder how long these took to make…