Typoglifs by Karl Kempton, from his website.
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By Karl Kempton and Loris Essary. Selections from WIRED, made with typewriter and letraset 1985-1986, according to RENEGADE.
Other Kempton works here.
Pratisara mantra, 927 CE
Mahāpratyaṅgirā mantra, 971 CE
Both of these are Chinese uses of the (Indian) Siddhaṃ script. h/t: Karl Kempton’s A History of Visual Text Art (p. 57)
It’s typewriter week! For the next 7 days we’ll post only works made with those magical typewriter machines. It’ll be our usual mix of old and new, classy and trashy. The images here are from old posts we’ve made, see http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/typewriter. They are:
– Typewriter Town by William Jay Smith (1960)
– Steve McCaffery, panel from Carnival (1967-75)
– Dirk Krecker
– Typewriter/Bird in the Bush, by Karl Kempton (1980)
– Pietro (de) Saga (Stefi Kiesler)
– Nico Vassilakis, 24 Typewriter Visual Poems (2011)
