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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Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1668)

Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607-1668)

#1600s      #ancient      #poetry      #TextArt     

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Notgeld from the series designed in 1921 by Czech designer Wenzel Hablik, town of Itzehoe, via.

Notgeld from the series designed in 1921 by Czech designer Wenzel Hablik, town of Itzehoe, via.

#TextArt      #Typography      #1920s     

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Poster for the documentary Pushwagner, via.

Poster for the documentary Pushwagner, via.

#textart      #2010s     

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Meg Hitchcock

Meg Hitchcock

#textart      #poetry      #typography     

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Edgardo Antonio Vigo, via.

Edgardo Antonio Vigo, via.

#TextArt     

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Isidro Ferrer.

Isidro Ferrer.

#TextArt     

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Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. It’s about 5000 years old, and was the dominant written language in the Middle East (while the Egyptians were all hieroglyphics). It was used for three millennia. For our digital convenience, it’s been packaged into Unicode.  Photo by nantel.

Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of writing. It’s about 5000 years old, and was the dominant written language in the Middle East (while the Egyptians were all hieroglyphics). It was used for three millennia.

For our digital convenience, it’s been packaged into Unicode. 

Photo by nantel.

#textart      #ancient     

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actegratuit:

Mantras and Meditations by Meg Hitchcock

#textart      #typography      #poetry     

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The myth about Bird B (K. Holten & E. Mourier, 1970)

#TextArt      #grid      #1970s     

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visual-poetry:

by adrien m / claire b

#textart     

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A-C-R-C-I-T by Guy de Cointet (1971).

#TextArt      #mathematics      #numbers      #1970s     

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Carmina figurata from a Festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, France, 14th c.

Carmina figurata from a Festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, France, 14th c.

#ancient      #carmina figurata      #TextArt     

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Ivan Alexandrov

#TextArt      #Typography      #Cyrillic     

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Gelbart - My Favourite Vacation (2001). As of today, all of his albums are available at  Bandcamp. And please don’t miss his ASCII video Please Don’t Use Drugs.

Gelbart - My Favourite Vacation (2001). As of today, all of his albums are available at  Bandcamp. And please don’t miss his ASCII video Please Don’t Use Drugs.

#textart      #2000s     

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Thomas Broomé

#calligram      #TextArt