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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Carl Andre, then I pulled his gun and I, 1975. Via.

Carl Andre, then I pulled his gun and I, 1975. Via.

#typewriter      #poetry      #1970s     

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visual-poetry: by gerhard rühm

visual-poetry:

by gerhard rühm

#typewriter      #poetry     

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The Sator Square is a four-way palindrome. It’s atleast 2000 years old and is probably magical to the max. Here it is on a 16/17th century skull. (via hominisaevum)

#ancient      #skull      #poetry     

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visual-poetry: letraset drawing by kelly mark

visual-poetry:

letraset drawing by kelly mark

#letraset      #print      #2000s      #poetry     

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Karl Holmqvist. Untitled. 2012 
from the exhibition Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language at MOMA

#poetry      #2010s     

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More H.N. Werkman.

#poetry      #typewriter      #1920s     

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Wachstum

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Wachstum

#poetry      #typewriter     

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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      #typewriter     

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Juan Díaz Rengifo, “Aquinas” Arte Poetica Española” Barcelona, 1726

Juan Díaz Rengifo, “Aquinas” Arte Poetica Española” Barcelona, 1726

#1700s      #poetry     

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KYKAFRIKAANS (1976-1980) by Willem Boshoff.

#typewriter      #poetry      #1980s     

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Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1668)

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1668)

#1600s      #ancient      #poetry      #TextArt     

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ornamentedbeing:  15th Century BOOK OF HOURS - Heart-Shaped When Opened The little book of hours of Amiens Nicolas Blairie, carefully written on a thin Ruling rose, but modestly decorated with some original illuminations in ink (folio 29), has the curious shape of an almond when it is closed. When it opens, the two halves of the almond bloom to fit the contours of a heart, concrete evocation of the heart of the person praying the prayer that opens.

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 15th Century BOOK OF HOURS - Heart-Shaped When Opened

The little book of hours of Amiens Nicolas Blairie, carefully written on a thin Ruling rose, but modestly decorated with some original illuminations in ink (folio 29), has the curious shape of an almond when it is closed. When it opens, the two halves of the almond bloom to fit the contours of a heart, concrete evocation of the heart of the person praying the prayer that opens.
#poetry      #ancient     

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Simias Rhodius, “Wings of Eros in Theocritus / Eidullia Theokritou Triakonta” ca. 325 B.C.

Simias Rhodius, “Wings of Eros in Theocritus / Eidullia Theokritou Triakonta” ca. 325 B.C.

#ancient      #poetry     

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Espantapajaros, Oliverio Girondo, via.

Espantapajaros, Oliverio Girondo, via.

#poetry     

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Voiceworks from Holly Pester (2009).

#poetry      #typewriter      #2000s