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1970s, 1980s, design, poland.

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Works by Andre Krayewski (Andrzej Krajewski), 1970s and 1980s. h/t Marcin Przyłęcki.

2010s, 2012, england, germany, teletext.

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Get ready for The Berlin ‘leg’ of the International Teletext Art Festival. Five of my most tacky submissions will be appearing on German teletext in the coming few weeks, so if you’re in the vicinity of Bavaria, check it out. Our Roberto is still confused about all this teletext stuff, though…

2010s, embroidery, pattern, textile, usa.

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Mexican Folk Art Animal by Cheryl Fall, via.

print, Typography, usa.

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Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, untitled, via.

2010s, 2012, animation, japan, shiftjis.

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The best ASCII action movie! You can check the individual frames here.

2010s, advertising, ascii.

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ASCII art spam from 2012.

Not married?
The most beautiful girls
Click

via

2020s, 2023, japan, MZ-700, SharpSCII.

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MZ-700 graphics made in 2023 by Ugeo, from here.

1980s, 1989, bridget riley, painting, uk.

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Fête painted by Bridget Riley in 1989.

2010s, 2014, facebook, glitch, italy, mammifero, unicode.

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Facebook text art by mammifero. More here.

1980s, basic, japan, MZ 80, print, SharpSCII.

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BASIC program from the manual to MZ-80 BASIC. Shared by Takashi Kawano!

2010s, 2013, teletext, tools, web.

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A website to create your own teletext graphics while listening to suitable teletext muzak. Made by Matt Round, 2013. Try it out here.

calligraphy.

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Zoomorphic Calligraphy

1990s, 1999, art, conversion, performance.

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Viking Shoppers by Gibson & Martelli 1999. A performance/installation with live dance and ASCII-cameras.

More info, more video.

2020s, bbs, teletext, uk.

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BeeBS is a bulletin board system (BBS) that supports teletext graphics. More correctly, it supports the BBC Micro’s mode 7 graphics mode, which is very similar to the British WST teletext standard. It used to be the only BBS running on a BBC Micro, but it runs on modern hardware nowadays.

2010s, 2012, cross-stitch, design, print.

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