Julian Hespenheide, 2021. link
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Julian Hespenheide, 2021. link
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Julian Hespenheide, 2023
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We’ve got some catching up to do with Julian Hespenheide, who’s been productive with code, charsets and fonts while this blog was in hiatus mode. This is a circular selection, but more stuff is coming.

Xerxes I inscription by Van Castle in Turkey, ca 470 BCE. A cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.





Amiga ASCII by Hellbeard, 2014. Taken from New Horizons (for Impure 1940) and To build a fire (and keep it going) (for Divine Stylers).



Peter Ström from Konst & Teknik has designed for the ISSUES gallery using no less than 57 fonts, which has earned him an FIU award for stupid records. h/t: Roel Nieskens

PETSCII XFILES by fakewaffles, 2018.

Put the fox through the life phaser, fakewaffles, 2014. PETSCII with video effects.
More fakewaffles here.

Study Rug by Anni Albers, based on the original design from 1926.



By Karl Kempton and Loris Essary. Selections from WIRED, made with typewriter and letraset 1985-1986, according to RENEGADE.
Other Kempton works here.