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News article from 1947 about Julius Nelson – a typewriter artist who wrote several books on the subject. An interesting interview where he gives good advice on typewriter art – or artyping as he liked to call it. He organized a competition every year, and received thousands of entries.

He also worked with “typewriter mystery games”. They were basic instructions such as “type Q four times, press return” which resulted in an image. There is an example in the article. It seems that he wrote books about typing well into the 1980s.

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ASCII curtains by Dutch designer Nienke Sybrandy, 2006. Mentioned here.

Fisches Nachtgesang by Christian Morgenstern. Published in Galgenlieder, 1905.

The title translates to “Fish’s Nightsong”. The poem consists of alternating lines of macrons and breves, the marks of scansion in Latin and Greek poetry, reimagined as both the shimmering scales of a sleeping fish and musical notations. 

Michael Cantor, 2012

Kaoiro, a handmade Japanese emoticon (kaomoji) stamp by Gung with 7 belts of 20 symbols each.

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Made in Valencia around 1770. Also check out Daniel Rehn’s rework with an 80’s dot matrix printer. More similar things here.

The broadside above is one of a set of four similar typographically-experimental broadsides printed in Valencia in the 1760s and 1770s in the Updike Collection. 

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Updated in 2024

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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