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Garden of Flowers: An Archive of Pictorial Typography Before ASCII Art

Garden of Flowers is a curated online archive exploring pictorial typography — visual imagery constructed from typographic characters — in the era before ASCII art emerged as a recognized form. The project, created by Heikki Lotvonen, surfaces a largely overlooked lineage of text-based visual art rooted in print and typewriter culture. It offers designers, historians, and digital artists a reference collection tracing the aesthetic origins of character-based imagery.