Turkish teletext pages shown after hours on Show TV, taken from this video. Unknown year.
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Halis Biçer, 1972.
Emin Barin, 1970s
Emin Barin and Halis Biçer started to make square kufic calligraphy with Latin letters in the 1970s. Most, if not all, square kufic were previously in Arabic. Barin was inspired by the younger Biçer, according to Enis Tan’s PhD thesis, A study of Kufic script in Islamic calligraphy and its relevance to Turkish graphic art using Latin fonts in the late twentieth.
Xerxes I inscription by Van Castle in Turkey, ca 470 BCE. A cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
PETSCII-work by Haydi Roket. (Click if it doesn’t animate)
Big ASCII print in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by James Athurman.
PETSCII-animations by Haydi Roket, 2014. (Original source links broken)
PETSCII-burgers by haydiroket.