Tag Archives: 1970s

Typewriter works by Steve McCaffery, made between 1967-75). Learn more.

By Karel Adamus for the concrete poetry journal Typewriter, 1975.

Hologrammer by Alan Riddell. Published in Typewriter Poems, 1972.

PETSCII graphics in Playboy Magazine, February 1978.

Dancing Demon. Written in 1979 by Leo Christopherson for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.

Hot setup for radio text art! This is Isao Yamaguchi and his radio machinery to send text messages around the world. RTTY art was around even before ASCII was born. It used something called Baudot instead. More here.

Image:  JA1DI – Isao Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan (1975).

visual-poetry:

“基” by niikuni seiichi (1970)

土: land, earth…
基: foundation, base

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By Dom Sylvester Houedard, 1972. From Like Contemplation (pdf).

PETSCII-graphics on the front of People’s Computers magazine, 1978. From here.

Uncredited student work in the class of Roger Ferriter, published in Young Typography in U&Ic volume 1: number 1, 1973.

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