“[pierre/鳩]” [rock/pigeon]
“[coq/桜]” [cock/cherry blossom]
“Shizu me ru tera 沈める寺” [Sinking Temple]
All works by Niikuni Seiichi & Pierre Garnier, 1966-1977, taken from Interlingual Encounter in Pierre Garnier and Niikuni Seiichi’s French-Japanese Concrete Poetry by Elaine S. Wong, 2015.
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By Jurriaan Schrofer, perhaps in the 1960s? Via Maurice Meilleur.
Jurriaan Schrofer’s stamps for the Netherlands, 1969. The text celebrates 50 years of International Labor Organization (IAO). More images and info in Maurice Meilleur’s excellent research.
Hannah Ryggen – Blod i gresset (1966). A reaction to the Vietnam War. Lyndon B. Johnson and his dog on the right.
Stempeltext by Ferdinand Kriwet, 1963. via Paul Prudence (via Tim Koch)
From MAD Magazine, 1965. via rainemanisfake
Works by Channa Horwitz (1932-2013), via Eko33
Timm Ulrichs, in «edition et» no. 3, Edited by Bernhard Höke, Verlag Christian Grützmacher, Berlin, 1967. Via garadinervi.
Military ASCII art from 1967 using a custom system that combined US ASCII and vector graphics, fit for 2400 baud distribution. More info also here.
The first close-up photos of Mars were taken with an analogue TV-camera and sent to earth as a grid of numbers. Each number represented a colour so scientists painted by numbers to colourize Mars in 1965. h/t @mwichary
