I am generally not a fan of typewritten art, because at some point it all starts to feel a bit same’y, and the gimmick of using a typewriter as a paintbrush wears off pretty quickly.

But these drawings by German artist Arno Beck caught my attention, because it feels like they playfully remix three eras:

• overtyping keyboard art (early 1900s),
• the sort of photorealistic smooth shading I most associate with ASCII/​ANSI art (1990s),
• big pixels from early home videogames (1980s).

In case this interests you, in 2018 I gave a 46-minute talk called “The abridged history of having fun with keyboards” that’s a (hopefully fun) walkthrough of this whole space: