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
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Taliesin. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Schumacher, USA 1954, via.

#textile      #50s     

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betonbabe: JOSEF ALBERS  BRICK WALL DETAIL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1949-50

betonbabe:

JOSEF ALBERS 

BRICK WALL DETAIL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1949-50

#40s      #50s      #Architecture     

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“Harmonie” by Göta Trägårdh, printed by Stobo (1954-64)

“Harmonie” by Göta Trägårdh, printed by Stobo (1954-64)

#textile      #50s      #60s     

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EDNA MARTIN, “Flickorna i fönstret” (1950-60)

EDNA MARTIN, “Flickorna i fönstret” (1950-60)

#Hemslöjd      #sloyd      #textile      #rug      #weaving      #50s      #60s      #1950s     

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Textile Art by Sven Markelius (1889–1972) from the 50s.

#textile      #50s      #1950s      #Architecture      #design     

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Excerpt from 5 Biblical Poems by Mac Low, made in 1955 (released in 1968). Made by chance, using the bible. From Words to be Looked at. Remember - this was before / was cool!

Excerpt from 5 Biblical Poems by Mac Low, made in 1955 (released in 1968). Made by chance, using the bible. From Words to be Looked at.

Remember - this was before / was cool!

#1950s      #poetry      #50s      #typewriter     

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Alf Munthe & Greta Gahn, 1951-1971 period.
from the exhibition at Leksands Kulturhus.

#textile      #50s      #60s      #70s     

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Taliesin fabric, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Schumacher, USA 1955

Taliesin fabric, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Schumacher, USA 1955

#textile      #50s     

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Athos Bulcão (1918-2008).

#Architecture      #tiles      #60s      #70s      #80s      #50s      #90s     

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corrinne: Polish poster for Stage Fright (1950) by Marek Freudenreich

corrinne:

Polish poster for Stage Fright (1950) by Marek Freudenreich

#advertising      #grid      #textmode      #50s     

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Le Merle (1958) by Norman McLaren

#TextArt      #animation      #50s     

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for “church suppers or high school dances”. Fun With Your Typewriter is a book from the 50’s by Madge Roemer.

for “church suppers or high school dances”. Fun With Your Typewriter is a book from the 50’s by Madge Roemer.

#typewriter      #50s     

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Karl Otto Götz
Density 10:3:2:1, 1961.
Statistisch-metrischer Versuch 4:2:2:1, 1959.

#60s      #grid      #textmode      #50s     

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Live action typewriter art in a video from the 1950s. It’s presented on German TV by a man who is as big as a coffee cup.

#50s      #typewriter      #press     

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Fig. 17: Augusto de Campos, “terremoto” (1956), version publishedSolt, ed., Concrete Poetry, np.

Fig. 17: Augusto de Campos, “terremoto” (1956), version publishedSolt, ed., Concrete Poetry, np.

#poetry      #50s