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2012-12-07

1970s, canada, drawing.

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By Guy de Cointet, 1971-1978.

More here. Updated in 2024.

2012-09-27

1940s, 1949, architecture, canada, mosaic, tiles.

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Paroisse Ste-Marguerite, Magog, Quebec (Canada), built in 1949.
Photo by decopix

2012-09-27

1980, 1980s, canada, poetry, typewriter.

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Shaunt Basmajian, Boundaries Limits and Space, 1980.

2012-09-23

1970s, 1978, advertising, canada, print, telidon, videotex.

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Telidon (1978) was a Canadian videotex service with both text and vector graphics. It could be used for mass communication on TV, or two-way communication using modems. Telidon required more complex decoding than its competitors, normally using Z80 or 6809 processors. Via.

2012-09-11

1970s, 1978, ascii, canada, conversion, print.

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Ascii Family Portrait from Ari-さん (Ari-san). Created at the CN Tower in Toronto (Canada) in 1978.

2012-07-31

2010s, 2012, ascii, canada, conversion.

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prostheticknowledge:

ASCII Street View by Teehan+Lax Labs

Interactive, brower-based WebGL-powered text-mode view of Google Streetview panoramas. Available in colour and green-terminal modes:

Real-time Ascii Art conversion of Google Street View panorama’s done in WebGL.

You’ll need Chrome, Firefox 8+, or another browser that supports CORS WebGL textures.

Coded by @peter_nitsch. Inspired by Sol’s TextFX library. Built with @thespite’s Google Street View Panorama library, and three.js.

Read about this at Teehan+Lax Labs.

Try it out here

2012-06-28

1970s, 1977, canada, poetry, typewriter.

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From The Plastic Typewriter book by Paul Dutton, 1993.

Although Paul Dutton finished this series of prints/smudges made from a disassembled plastic typewriter in 1977, this is the first publication of the entire work. It’s a lovely sequence of visual pieces: letters pressed on broken type, lines drawn in (presumably through typewriter ribbon), smudges, fragments of rock lyrics, ribbon rubbings, fingerprints, typed text, in short, a greatly enhanced set of textual elements. Given the replacement of the typewriter by the word processor, there’s a flavor of nostalgia, or perhaps metaphor (in the destruction of the typewriter) in this piece that may not have been originally considered.

– Andrew Russ

Post updated in 2024.

2012-06-04

2000s, 2004, amiga, ascii, canada, scene.

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Examples from Homeless by Hiro Protagonist, 2004.

2012-06-01

1950s, 1958, animation, canada.

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Le Merle (The Blackbird) by Norman McLaren, 1958. More.

2012-05-29

2010s, 2012, canada, conversion, font, scotland, Typography, visualization.

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prostheticknowledge:

FatFont

Specifically designed for decimal numbers whose boldness corresponds with it’s value, for use in data visualization:

The FatFonts technique is based on a new type of numeric typeface designed for visualization purposes that bridge the gap between numeric and visual representations. FatFonts are based on Arabic numerals but, unlike regular numeric typefaces, the amount of ink (dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This enables accurate reading of the numerical data while preserving an overall visual context.

Fatfonts are designed so that the amount of dark pixels in a numeral character is proportional to the number it represents … This proportionality of ink is the main property of FatFonts. It allows us to create images of data where you can read the numbers, and represent tables that can be read as images.

You can find out more about the project here

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