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International Teletext Art Festival 2014: Not a walkthrough of Illarterate’s TXTPunk
In previous years, I have posted detailed walkthroughs of my entries for the last two editions of the International Teletext Art Festival. They didn’t necessarily need to be explored in such detail, but because of semi-obscure references to things like little-known island Rockall and the largely forgotten Good Times virus, I felt the need to…
Teletext: The Life and Death of a Medium
Clearing out some of the bulkier files on illarterate.co.uk, I came across a timeline created for my final year Graphic Arts Research Project (GARP) I’d completely forgotten about. It may be text only, but wasn’t teletext? Well, I know it incorporated some primitive artwork, but wasn’t the text the bit you were interested in? No?…
NPPD Rush: The Milk of Ultra Violet now available for download
Hey, sir (or madam)! Have you been going through life without experiencing the joy of video games? No? Then, Mr Snow, I believe it is high time you stopped believing all that nonsense about games ‘rotting your brain’ or ‘wasting your life’. While this may be true, you are conveniently overlooking the positive aspects of…
Sketchbook art: Venice & Verona, 2005
I always promised myself I’d get round to archiving my old sketchbooks, and this Easter weekend has given me the opportunity to do so. I’ve got about five years of stuff in the attic to go through, so that might take a while but to start, here’s a selection of the best artwork from my…
Text Mode is Text-TV is Video Text is Teletext: A chat with Chiptune Master Goto80
With the Finland leg of the 2013 International Teletext Art Festival underway, Illarterate decided to quiz participating artist Anders Carlsson on… everything but teletext art. Well, he is a fairly prominent figure in the world of chiptune music, at least in his homeland of Sweden, so to dwell on such a small part of his…
Alternative flag of Wales: Welsh Bands Forum
A while ago I was somewhat involved in the launch of the unofficial Welsh Bands Forum, and designed a mascot to be used in the site’s graphical identity. Sadly the forum is becoming a bit of an abandoned project but may be revived by its owner sometime in the future, at which point the designs…
Would you like to surf in Hawaii, Mr. Frosty?