Very textmodey profile by Ivo Brower for All Eyes On Type, a calligraphy and typography festival in Rotterdam in May.
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In the 1960s, Eduardo Joselevich and Fanny Fingerman developed a technique to represent images with only four symbols. Full blocks or circles, in either black or white. They called it Fototrama and it was used at Olivetti and Philips for example.
More here.
Amen Break chardonnay wine, with the famous beat sequenced in ASCII. Also available as Pinot Noir.
Half-tone style graphics from Argentina. Taken from the book Words & buildings: the art and practice of architectural graphics by Jock Kinneir, 1981.