Tag Archives: 1960s

Stempeltext by Ferdinand Kriwet, 1963. via Paul Prudence (via Tim Koch)

From MAD Magazine, 1965. via rainemanisfake

Works by Channa Horwitz (1932-2013), via Eko33

Timm Ulrichs, in «edition et» no. 3, Edited by Bernhard Höke, Verlag Christian Grützmacher, Berlin, 1967. Via garadinervi.

Military ASCII art from 1967 using a custom system that combined US ASCII and vector graphics, fit for 2400 baud distribution. More info also here.

The first close-up photos of Mars were taken with an analogue TV-camera and sent to earth as a grid of numbers. Each number represented a colour so scientists painted by numbers to colourize Mars in 1965. h/t @mwichary


garadinervi:

Ilse and Pierre Garnier, Prototypes, Éditions André Silvaire, Paris, 1965

garadinervi:

Frederick Hammersley, A Good Line is Hard to Beat, 1969, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA / Frederick Hammersley Foundation

ASCII art by Frederick Hammersley, 1969. Made on an IBM-computer (which used EBCDIC and not ASCII encoding), and:

The alphanumeric characters we could ‘draw’ with were: the alphabet, ten numerals and eleven symbols, such as periods, dashes, slashes, etc….

h/t: Robert Doerfler

lavamposto:

#Repost @letterformarchive
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Toshihiki Shimizu, Six Meditations, Japan, 1969


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