Now, he’s somehow managed to create even lower resolution images with a modified typewriter that produces ASCII art images. As with everything dealing with typewriters, machine selection is key.

"As soon as I attempted my first visual piece on the typewriter, I was hooked and knew this would be my main art form. I could then see that the possibilities were endless (and still are ...

Reese created his art using nothing but a typewriter. Fans of computer art are no doubt familiar with ASCII art: representational pieces created using nothing but the characters on a computer ...

But as Typewriter Art proves, the techniques behind ASCII art are far older than the computer. In fact, the process, called art typing, is almost as old as the typewriter itself. The first ...

In this telling, typewriter art is not merely an ancestor of ASCII art, but of everything that goes on a screen. The television, the CRT monitor, the iPhone. After the 1890s, typewriter art pops ...

The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell’s Typewriter Art (1975 ... to bear that goes well beyond proto-ASCII art. We hope you enjoyed this article!

This portrait, for example, is from the October 1920 issue of Motion Picture Magazine and is one of the older examples of typewriter or ASCII art you’ll find. It’s lovely, and all the more so ...

A descendant of typewriter art and line-printer art, ASCII art is a technique that uses printable characters instead of grapahic marks. Traditionally, ASCII Standard and ASCII compliant characters ...

Rathbone started creating these typographic works of art in 2003. She told Wired: "The idea came to me in a blinding flash, one day sitting in my bedroom with my typewriter, nothing to write ...

The way thousands and thousands of people made typewriter art, from amateurs to avant gardists. What they created is, in some cases, strikingly similar to the ASCII art of the BBS days ...