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2012-03-21

1950s, 1958, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Meditation no.1 by Emmett Williams, 1958. Also see Wikipedia.

2012-03-19

1970s, 1978, PET, petscii, print, usa, χχχ.

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PETSCII graphics in Playboy Magazine, February 1978.

2012-03-18

1960, 1960s, book, print, typewriter, usa.

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Typewriter Town by William Jay Smith, 1960. Colourized typewriter art.

2012-03-18

1940s, 1947, julius nelson, print, typewriter, usa.

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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.

(via popmech)

2012-03-18

2010s, norway, Typography, unicode, usa.

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Patterns generated with the web tool Unicode Patterns, by Subset (Andreas Brændhaugen and Sarah Nahm). Still online as of 2024.

2012-03-15

2010s, 2012, max capacity, petscii, usa.

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More nice semi-PETSCII from Max Capacity, 2012.

2012-03-15

2010s, 2012, max capacity, petscii, usa.

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Godzilla semi-PETSCII from Max Capacity, 2012.

2012-03-15

1980s, 1987, poetry, typewriter, usa.

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Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.

2012-03-13

1970s, 1979, animation, TRS-80, usa.

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Dancing Demon. Written in 1979 by Leo Christopherson for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I.

2012-03-07

2010s, switzerland, Typography, unicode, usa.

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Charcollage by Ted Davis, 2012. An online tool for Unicode art, available at the Fach & Asendorf gallery. The size and location of the text characters are changed by moving the mouse.

Post updated in 2024.

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