The results are in for the First International Computer Drawn Dragon Contest, 1979! These are all PETSCII-graphics made on the Commodore PET. The winner, Tom Weller from Berkeley, California, typed these graphics by hand as PRINT statements in BASIC. The other contributions were made by Steve and Tom Wuttke, 9 and 12 years old.
F Like France, possibly by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis. Minitel graphics with custom characters (DRCS) on a Honeywell Videotex System. Published here in 1988.
By Timm Ulrichs, published in Anthologie zur Visuelle Poesie, 1968.
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Exhibition poster for Wim Crouwel – a Graphic Odyssey by Philippe Apeloig, 2011, via Cooper Hewitt.
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Made by Jens Jørgen Hansen, 2015. Photos from his Flickr, via.
Cyrillic ASCII art (КОИ-7 art, more correctly) by Eric Furst, 2021-2022. Uses overstriking, ie printing characters on top of each other. More here.
Poster by Karel Martens, via
The cover of the French Le Charivari magazine 27 February, 1834. It is pear-shaped because the magazine’s owner, Charles Philipon, had been taken to court for depicting king Louis-Philippe I as a rotting pear. Ironically, the king had just previously proclaimed the freedom of the press and lost the case.
Image and info, via Wikipedia
Prosodia Danicæ Linguæ by Peder Jensen Roskilde, 1627. More here.
