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• quakeguy
  Very nice, i have a book in my library which you’ll find interesting.Jeremy Adler and Ulrich ErnstText als Figurhttps://www.amazon.de/Text-als-Figur-Visuelle-Moderne/dp/352...It is full of pictures like you have collected.Example:https://imgur.com/a/mWL4kSsSadly it seems this book is rather rare.
• contingencies
  I noticed Asia is severely underrepresented. This is normal in western collections, but there are exceptions. You should find great examples from China, Iran, pre-colonial India, Japan, and Vietnam. Some potential leads on works you haven't catalogued: (1) The collection search site for the Dutch 'Wereldmuseum' in Rotterdam, which houses the state collection (they were the first to Japan). (2) The same for Lisbon's Museu do Oriente. (3) International Dunhuang Project, affiliated with the British Library, which has scanned some of the earliest printed works in Asia with a good digital catalogue, some of which have graphic elements. (4) Musee Guimet, Paris. (5) The Print and Graphic Communication Museum in Lyon. (6) The National Technical Museum in Prague (great printing and photography holdings). (7) Asian art auction records. (8) Should you broaden to sculpture, many of the great Buddhist and Hindu carved stone monuments incorporate text with their form elements, though generally not integrally. (9) Chinese folk arts of paper-cut, embroidery (upholstery/cloth/fashion) and new year folk printed door poster art probably have some exceptional examples.
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  BugsJustFindMe
  Hey, this archive you've put together is extremely impressive. How did you find all of these? Literally keyword search on digital collections?
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  efitz
  You should look at some Arabic calligraphy- there is a lot of artistic Arabic calligraphy where passages from the Quran, poetry, and other text are written beautifully as art.
• Aardwolf
  > https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3...Wow this is awesome, they had box-drawing characters in 1785!
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  softgrow
  At school studying typing there was a class of 66 all manual typewriters except for the two electrics. If you were good and had some spare time, you were given printed instructions to type particular characters and returns. Sometimes shift into red ink. Do it properly and you got an image. So maybe pre ASCII art?
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  kevinmiller452
  Love this. The 18th century type specimens are gorgeous and it's amazing you pulled them from old digitized books. Do you have plans to add any interactive features like zoom on the images?
• una_usta
  This is awesome! A few months ago I got a tattoo of one of the flowers from https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?page=LKBGE51F3...I’ve been variously told it looks like the sun, a hedgehog, and a lion & I’m kind fond of all those descriptions
• frmfrm
  Absolutely incredible, thank you for making this!
• frmfrm
  Would love to suggest having a way to get the whole archive and metadata to browse locally or mirror, perhaps via a torrent?
• arrowassassin
  Nice
• DonHopkins
  So EBCDIC art?
• mujib77
  Unique idea looks good
• phyzix5761
  Very cool
• faddy67
  damn amazing
• roshiya
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• anon
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