Tag Archives: 1975

Typewriter art by Ian Parberry 1975, partly using overstriking.

Here is my first attempt. It’s made from four sheets of typing paper glued together. If you look close up, it’s made using just a few letters including M, I, and M overstruck with X or $ to get the darkest shade approaching black.

The original source is borked, but this is more recent page. (Updated 2024)

Carl Andre, then I pulled his gun and I, 1975. Via.

Morse code, Punched card recording medium, Binary numeral system, Baudot code and dot matrix printer for the TM cover design by Heinrich Fleischhacker (1975).

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

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).