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2024-07-17

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Works by Rolf Harder and Ernst Roch published between 1963 and 1989. Images via Design Reviewed, MOMA, AGI, Kind Company and Graphis.

2024-07-01

1960s, 1970s, canada, poetry, print, typewriter.

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

2024-06-25

1990s, 1994, ascii, canada.

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Normand Veilleux, ca 1994. He wrote a tutorial on his special technique to make ASCII.

2024-06-15

2020s, 2024, animation, canada.

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Window by Nicolas Sassoon, 2024.

2024-06-10

1990s, 1994, ascii, canada, conversion, usenet.

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Work stages for Normand Veilleux’s ASCII Mona Lisa, 1994. From his tutorial about manually converting images to ASCII using a grid.

2024-05-09

1980s, 1983, animation, canada, telidon, usa, videotex.

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Genesis StoryTime was a videotex storybook that was broadcast in Canada and USA, 1983-1990. The Telidon graphics were converted to video and broadcast like a regular TV-channel, usually without sound. Images and video from Tedium.

2024-05-07

1970s, 1979, canada, magazine, PET, petscii, print, usa.

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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.

2024-05-03

2020s, 2024, canada, scene.

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AI-generated ANSI-like Power Rangers by Naitron (aka Nitron)

2024-03-09

1979, 1980, 1980s, animation, canada, telidon, videotex.

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Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti, 1979 or 1980. Telidon was a Canadian videotex service with textmode and vector graphics and Moretti was the first professional artist to work with Telidon.

Video saved here, just in case. Previously featured here.

2024-03-04

1980s, canada, telidon, tools.

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Glenn Howarth’s workstation for Telidon graphics, which he made 1981-1985. The photo is from the book Machine stitched into a corner of the Canadian modern age flag: Glenn Howarth’s Telidon art (pdf) that has plenty of Howarth’s not so text graphics. It was written by John Dorno, who has been researching and restoring Telidon art for years.

Learn more about Telidon

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