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Wall mosaic from the Mosque of Al Burdayni in Cairo, produced in the 17th century. Via.

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How to read the square kufic from the mausoleum at Shah-i-Zinda, made in 1361. QR-codes can go to bed now.

More pics and info at kufic.info.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

قل هو الله أحد اللَه الصَمد لمْ يلد ولم يولد و لم يكن له كفوا أحد

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Very particular ANSI-style from Jerusalem / Boil, 1998.

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Very impressive stop motion text movie: TXT ISLAND.

TXT ISLAND is a typographic tale of epic misadventure. The film was shot as stop-motion animation of plastic sign board letters by animation director Chris Gavin and completed in May 2009 after a production period of around 9 months.

Thanks to Ilkke for the headzüp.

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By Crapestry aka Theo Humphries

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JOSEF ALBERS 

BRICK WALL DETAIL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 1949-50

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Dead by Dawn

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Typewriter works by Lee Etheredge IV. Wonder how long these took to make…

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Comment le Present Ouvrage ces Questions Critiques - Dom Sylvester Houedard (1971)

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Watermelon

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Tape on fence: Sleeping Beauty, Göran Johansson and Christer Pettersson. By Cuadrigula, who we also featured here and here.

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Joe Zucker, famous for painting on cotton balls. Showing in New York for another week.

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Tweets by Haruko Hirukawa, 2013.

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Typewriter drawings, via Laura Brown.

Artists Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton collaborated to create a series of 60 drawings of something they’d seen with their own eyes, for everyday in the month of November last year. 

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By Runte0531