Images courtesy of Laurence King & AmazonThough the characters, and the wonder they inspire, might be one in the same, not all text art is created equal. Since the earliest monks were encoding parables into hand-drawn paragraphs, and Gutenberg was gearing up the first printing press, humanity has maintained a profound artistic connection not only to the texts that behold history, but to individual letter-forms themselves. Fast forward a few centuries, and with the inception of the mechanical typewriter, in all its modern iterations, text art began.Creator and collector of all things text-based, graphic designer extraordinaire Barrie Tullet has released Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology, a collection of the best and boldest in modern art, made with typewriters.3D Typefaces? Cryptography? ASCII, and you shall receive:Says Tullett, "The definition of typewriter art can really only ever be a personal one. For some artists, it is an object to draw—from the machine itself, to the ephemera associated with it (typewriter oils, ribbon cases and so on)—or… a tool to draw with; a means of making art."Below, enjoy more selected snippets from Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology:Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology is published by Laurence King, and now available in paperback from Amazon.h/t Slate.comRelated:HaKU's New Music Video Doubles As Awesome ASCII Art Jenny Holzer's Popular Truisms Get First Chinese LED TextsMake Text Message Textiles With Raw Color's Cryptographer
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