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
madjim:


Who Doesn’t Like Owls?

madjim:

Who Doesn’t Like Owls?

Wall mosaic from the Mosque of Al Burdayni in Cairo, produced in the 17th century. Via.

Wall mosaic from the Mosque of Al Burdayni in Cairo, produced in the 17th century. Via.

Wall mosaic from the Mosque of Al Burdayni in Cairo, produced in the 17th century. Via.

Wall mosaic from the Mosque of Al Burdayni in Cairo, produced in the 17th century. Via.

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.
Praça dos Restauradores (Lisbon). The square is dedicated to the restoration of the independence of Portugal in 1640. Photo by Simon Zino.

Praça dos Restauradores (Lisbon). The square is dedicated to the restoration of the independence of Portugal in 1640. Photo by Simon Zino.

Mosaic border designs from a Sicilian church, produced in the 12th century. Via.

Mosaic border designs from a Sicilian church, produced in the 12th century. Via.

tessellationappreciation:

Zoologischer Garten U Bhan, Berlin

tessellationappreciation:

Zoologischer Garten U Bhan, Berlin

Ceramic tile pavement design from Higham Ferreers, Northamptonshire, produced in 1340. Via

Ceramic tile pavement design from Higham Ferreers, Northamptonshire, produced in 1340. Via

Patchwork quilt design produced in the 1870s by Unknown

Patchwork quilt design produced in the 1870s by Unknown

Marylee McMurray Lament, Music in Elementary Education: Enjoy, Experience and Learn (1976). Via.

Lisbon’s small polished stones by Esther Schulze-Tsatsas (2012).
Photos by Dimitrios Tsatsas.

Fish Grids forever! By Jo Edkins.

‘Counter-Composition’ by Theo van Doesburg (1925)

‘Counter-Composition’ by Theo van Doesburg (1925)

m7kenji:


Mary Martin
Permutation, 1965
Pen and ink on paper

m7kenji:

Mary Martin

Permutation, 1965

Pen and ink on paper

Works by Siggi Eggertsson. He’s been working with this textmodey illustration style for about a decade. Plenty more at Siggi Eggertsson dottt com