Tag Archives: 1970s

Clothes with text graphics by fashion designer Elisabeth de Senneville, 1979-1981. via Ragnar Digital

Man in NY – computer portrait on paper (1980)
Patti Smith – computer portrait on fabric (1980)
Computer Printed Fleece Dress Design (1979)
Lame Shirt with computer code print (1980)
Dress, pants, and shirt – computer print on Tyvek (1981)

Star Wars PETSCII by Daniel Browning in People’s Computers #1, 1978. We’ve previously posted the front cover, but this is from the article inside. Browning explains how to plan the image on paper, and then use his PET-software GRAPHIX-I or GRAPHIX-II.

Homage to Vasarely by Alan Riddell, 1971. From Typewriter Art.

Cityscape by Donato Cinicolo, 1972. From Typewriter Art.

Cityscape by Simon Parritt, 1972. From Typewriter Art.

Spread by Dorothy Yule in Upper & Lowercase Magazine Vol 2, No. 4, 1975. via

Moon song by Tristan Gray Hulse, 1973. From Typewriter Art.

Texture poem for the moons of stars by Peter Finch, 1971. From Typewriter Art.

By Steve McCaffery, from one of his CARNIVAL books, made some time between 1967-1975. Found here. More here.

The results are in for the First International Computer Drawn Dragon Contest, 1979! These are all PETSCII-graphics made on the Commodore PET. The winner, Tom Weller from Berkeley, California, typed these graphics by hand as PRINT statements in BASIC. The other contributions were made by Steve and Tom Wuttke, 9 and 12 years old.

From Recreational Computing Vol 8, Issue 43, November 1979.