ANSI and ASCII by cmang, 1995-2022.
Stigmatypie works from Harpel’s Typograph, 1870. You can zoom in on the details thanks to archive.org.
Stigmatypie produces halftone images with small text characters, like the period (.), similar to dot matrix printing. The technique was developed in 1867 by Carl Fasol, who btw also inspired Valto Malmiola that we recently posted about.
The text segment is from American Encyclopaedia of Printing (1871).
via. h/t: Roel Nieskens
From Fun With Your Typewriter, a book by Madge Roemer from 1956. Half of the book consists of detailed instructions on how to produce the works, sort of like software for humans. We covered the book back in 2012 but since then the book has been made available on archive.org thanks to Marcin Wichary. <3
Posted by asciiart to start off 2024, the year of the dragon in the Chinese calendar.
The Icelandic Vegvísir (wayfinder) is a magical stave that helps you find your way home through rough weather. Oldest known example is from 1860.
Self Destruction by Shadow, for Galza. Made sometime between 1999 and 2004.
Examples from Bruno Munari‘s Curve di Peano series (1970’s) and the Negativo Positivo series (1950’s).
The red lines are quillwork, made with porcupine quills. This technique was used for hundreds of years before beadwork became popular in the 1800s with glass beads from Venice.
These kinds of triangles are called step triangles.
The dark blue shapes are called buffalo tracks, space or part-between.
Tripe design.
“Two-color, elongated diamond shapes are usually called the Feather, Whirlwind or Breath of Life design.”
Four directions
Women of several tribes started making moccasins with beaded soles in the 1880s.
“Twisted design” (beads in diagonal checker rows)
Box designs. The squares often represented bags.
Boxes with inverted triangles were common in the Shoshone tribe, therefore known as Shoeshone design.
All images and information from Wyoming State Museum’s Beautiful Shoes (2012) which also explains different techniques, and the same museum’s moccasin page at Göögle Arts & Culture.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, composed of 17,000 monotype characters and a tinted background in the shape of the head (1935). source