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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The red rabbit by Miss Cross Stitch (Volksgarten, Cologne).

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Bubble wrap paintings by Bradley Hart. Thanks to Jacob Sikker Remin for the tip.

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Visual textmode identity for Pickles PR by Part of a Bigger Plan. Check out the smoo00th transitions on their website.

Kind of similar to Siggi Eggertsson.

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

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By Owen Schuh, via

By Owen Schuh, via

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Joe Zucker, famous for painting on cotton balls. Showing in New York for another week.

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Glitchaus, Design house of J.Donaldson.
Get it here!!

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From The Flight of Icarus by Georges Schwizgebel, 1974. Watch the full thing here. Thanks to Rico Zerone for finding this gem!

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Cellular Automata for the C64 by Ian Adam & Transactor Magazine (1987).

A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, such as on and off (in contrast to a coupled map lattice). Via wikipedia.

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jessiethatcher:

Jessie Thatcher: Plastic Grid I

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Jessie Thatcher: Plastic Grid I

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The Textile Cone is a venomous cone snail that can kill humans. Some people have called it the Textmode Killer of the Sea. Pic from Wikipedia.

The Textile Cone is a venomous cone snail that can kill humans. Some people have called it the Textmode Killer of the Sea. Pic from Wikipedia.

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Nonograms are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. Pics from the swedish magazine ‘Japanska bildpuzzel’ nº6 (2011)

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“Cuadricula” by Arnaud Loumeau (2013)

“Cuadricula” by Arnaud Loumeau (2013)

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Sprites = Cross-stitch?Commodore Computing International magazine cover (1983).

Sprites = Cross-stitch?
Commodore Computing International magazine cover (1983).

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Thomas Bayrle’s Pictogram-like cells aka ‘super-forms’
All-in-One, exhibition at WIELS (Brussels) / 09.02 – 12.05.2013.