Tag Archives: ascii

Examples from Homeless by Hiro Protagonist, 2004.

The earliest preserved example of typewriter art was made in 1898 by a woman named Flora Stacey. Her framed picture of a butterfly was published in the October 15th, 1898, edition of Pitman’s Phonetic Journal.

TwitAA 2012-06-01 by nadesiko6.

gridworks2000-blogdrawings-collage071 by A Bill Miller

carpet/?s is an internet based project that allows you to purchase a personalized carpet made out of ascii.

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2ch Kaomoji Pop-Up Toaster 

Japanese ASCII emoticon toaster, from J-List

Available in blue and pink

cocodrilo_O (2011)

Eighteen Types by Andrew Hurle. Photos of Tokyo bar girls converted to ASCII, and mangled. See the full collection on the artist’s website.

Each of these two women are represented as an ASCII image set in nine different typefaces and has been magnified from an image captured from the computer screen.

Perhaps this was made around the same time as his other ASCII-related works, ca 2000. This post was updated in 2024.

Typewriter D. Boy

Naked ASCII men by jgs (Joan Stark), a:f (Andreas Freise) and mOm.