By Alma Alloro, 2013/2014.
Mini-Quadro, a C64 BASIC game by Michael Scheuner with PETSCII that looks like cross-stitch. From the German magazine 64’er, july 1990.
Nude aka Computer Nudes aka Studies in Perception by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. While this is often called the first ASCII art piece, it doesn’t use any ASCII characters, and it was preceded by for example Digital Mona Lisa (1964).
Some hi-res scans here, thx to chicasyordinadores 4 the link. Also see this.
Youkan‘s printed cards with the graphics from the Hanafuda-game from 1983.
ASCII art on a receipt from Blockbuster, photographed by Karen L, 2008.
Cross stitch style cover for the Recipe Book Cooking the OXO way published by Liebig’s Extract of Meat Compnay Ltd in 1958.
Pics by Simon Whybray