Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

Garden of Flowers is an online archive that documents and contextualizes pictorial typography created before the ASCII art era, such as typewriter art and shaped poetry. It serves designers, historians, and digital art enthusiasts by preserving overlooked precursors to text-based imagery. The project is interesting because it fills a gap in the history of visual communication, revealing how artists used mechanical type to create images long before computers.