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
Found this Braille style picture of the Ulam Spiral:


When arranging the natural numbers in a spiral and emphasizing the prime numbers, an intriguing and not fully explained pattern is observed, called the Ulam spiral.


Found when reading about some new deep connection of prime numbers which is a real kioskvältare in mathematics.

Found this Braille style picture of the Ulam Spiral:

When arranging the natural numbers in a spiral and emphasizing the prime numbers, an intriguing and not fully explained pattern is observed, called the Ulam spiral.

Found when reading about some new deep connection of prime numbers which is a real kioskvältare in mathematics.

Braille Karaoke developed in Japan, via

Braille Tree by Sid Simpson

Braille Tree by Sid Simpson

Ilias Fotopoulos’ Braille Project wallpaper showed at Matilda, an Australian exhibition at The London Design Festival 2010, via.

Ilias Fotopoulos’ Braille Project wallpaper showed at Matilda, an Australian exhibition at The London Design Festival 2010, via.

Braille Single Cell Sampler, via.

Braille Single Cell Sampler, via.

lookingforeverland:

Encore une fois, ”l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”

lookingforeverland:

Encore une fois, ”l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”

Braille karaoke! Decode Braille into words and sing it!

Because karaoke lyrics never looked so good..

WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT Happy Christmas from John & Yoko

WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT Happy Christmas from John & Yoko

 TM Issue 4 cover design by Heinrich Fleischhacker using the braille writing system (1975).

 TM Issue 4 cover design by Heinrich Fleischhacker using the braille writing system (1975).

“Braille Playboy” by Tricia Wright.

χχχ braille

Braille art by Kotara Studio.

Braille art by Cobra_11 (2012).

Ken Knowlton’s mosaics in the lately 90’s