From the manual for Flow-Matic, for one of the first computers: UNIVAC. source

DUBSᵀᶠᴾ

Watermark by Mathieu Tremblin, 2013. Made with chalk and stencils.

The disk directory of the

_| ̄|○ C64 music disk, and a file listing at Antidote BBS where it was first uploaded. More GIFs here, video here, music here.

Hypertags by Mathieu Tremblin, 2011-2014. More here.

Since 2002, Google don’t allow “gimmicky use of words, numbers, letters, punctuation, or symbols” on AdWords. Which seems to mean text graphics, emoticons and kaomojis. But some slip through for a while anyway. Supposedly. 

SiXT made it in 2007. In 2008 there was Payday, We Are Collective, Metapeople and Logic Immo. In 2009, Worms and MotoFriends. And in 2011 a rabbit snuck through in Ukraine

Turning tags into tag clouds. Mathieu Tremblin, 2010-2015. More examples here

ASCII art in PGP keys, by Carl Mehner. Encrypt in style! Here’s how to do it. via Laura Brown.

Liverpool pavilion, designed by FAT Architecture.

BBC Cardiff, designed by FAT Architecture 2010.