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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More keira rathbone.

#typewriter      #2010s     

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theautologicalmetaphor: this is who i am, mom

theautologicalmetaphor:

this is who i am, mom

#typewriter      #typewriter art      #2010s     

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Typewriter drawings, via Laura Brown.

Artists Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton collaborated to create a series of 60 drawings of something they’d seen with their own eyes, for everyday in the month of November last year. 

 

 

#2010s      #typewriter      #typewriter art     

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jongillie: Comment le Present Ouvrage ces Questions Critiques - Dom Sylvester Houedard (1971)

jongillie:

Comment le Present Ouvrage ces Questions Critiques - Dom Sylvester Houedard (1971)

#typewriter      #typewriter art      #1970s     

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Typewriter works by Lee Etheredge IV. Wonder how long these took to make…

#typewriter      #typewriter art      #2000s     

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visual-poetry: by gerhard rühm

visual-poetry:

by gerhard rühm

#typewriter      #poetry     

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Typewriter art, only using the characters , - ( ) . ; if we’ve understood correctly. By time-for-a-memory.

Typewriter art, only using the characters , - ( ) . ; if we’ve understood correctly. By time-for-a-memory.

#typewriter      #2010s     
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Paul Smith, the Typewriter artist. Originally aired March-April of 1976 on KOIN-TV in Portland Oregon.

#typewriter      #1970s      #tv     

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More H.N. Werkman.

#poetry      #typewriter      #1920s     

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Leetspeak from 123 years ago. Contains a smiley, strange spelling and even an upside down character. Published in Typewriter World, 1897. Found by Koichi Yasuoka. More info.

Leetspeak from 123 years ago. Contains a smiley, strange spelling and even an upside down character. Published in Typewriter World, 1897. Found by Koichi Yasuoka.

More info.

#1800s      #typewriter      #emoticons     

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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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KYKAFRIKAANS (1976-1980) by Willem Boshoff.

#typewriter      #poetry      #1980s     

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We’re making a fax performance right now at Transmediale in Berlin! Please join us by faxing to +49 30 39787 288. Your work will be teleported straight into our performance, like magic. Spread the word! More info/links here (sort of).

We’re making a fax performance right now at Transmediale in Berlin! Please join us by faxing to +49 30 39787 288. Your work will be teleported straight into our performance, like magic. Spread the word!

More info/links here (sort of).

#petscii      #fax      #typewriter