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

#architecture      #2000s      #grid     

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Impressive and silly. Or neither nor. Either.

#architecture      #stop motion      #animation      #tiles     

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electripipedream: Verner PantonAstoria Hotel1960

electripipedream:

Verner Panton
Astoria Hotel
1960

#1960s      #architecture     

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

betonbabe:

JOSEF ALBERS 

BRICK WALL DETAIL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1949-50

#Architecture      #1940s      #1950s     

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This pattern repeats Muhammed over and over, and was made in 1275 for the  Cifte minaret in in Sivas, Turkey. More here.

#ancient      #architecture      #kufic      #square kufic     

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How to read the square kufic from the mausoleum at Shah-i-Zinda, made in 1361. QR-codes can go to bed now.

More pics and info at kufic.info.

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

قل هو الله أحد
اللَه الصَمد
لمْ يلد ولم يولد
و لم يكن له كفوا أحد

#ancient      #architecture      #kufic      #square kufic     

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

#textile      #1950s      #Architecture      #design     
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DDR ex-Solidarity Housing Association, Schillingstrasse 30 (Berlin).
Josef Kaiser/Johannes Gitschel (1966/67). Via

#DDR      #mosaic      #tiles      #Architecture      #1960s     

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Wanangkura Stadium in western Australia, designed by ARM architecture. They call it pixely, we call it textmodey.

More here.

#architecture      #2010s     

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Cilla Ramnek, floor for Café Saturnus, Stockholm (1998)

#text-mode      #textile      #Architecture      #tiles      #mosaic      #1990s     
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archiemcphee:

From the Department of Awesome Interiors comes the breathtakingly elaborate and colourful Peacock Room, located inside the abandoned Sammezzano Castle in Tuscany. The now derelict castle was built in 1605.

Photos via Romany WG and Martino Zegwaard

[via Design You Trust and inthralld.]

#1600s      #architecture     

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betonbabe: STUDENTS FROM MIT (PROF. R. PREUSSER) SCULPTURAL TILE MODULES, 1960s

betonbabe:

STUDENTS FROM MIT (PROF. R. PREUSSER)

SCULPTURAL TILE MODULES, 1960s

#tile      #Architecture      #1960s     

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pixelsinthewild: Police station in Rotterdam, bicolor pixel tile lettering. Photo by Aliz Borsa

pixelsinthewild:

Police station in Rotterdam, bicolor pixel tile lettering. Photo by Aliz Borsa

#tiles      #typography      #Architecture     

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Porto (Portugal), via.

#tiles      #Architecture     

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Ndebele house paintings from South Africa. A style developed after the Ndebele started fighting with the European farmers in 1883. Wikipedia:

These wall paintings done by the women of the Ndebele was their secret code to their people, disguised to anyone but the Ndebele.

#architecture      #africa