WOOOO!! My love for teletext graphics is not unspoken; i’m so all over this!
Respect, once more, to Prosthetic Knowledge.

prostheticknowledge:

The Teletext Museum 

An online archive of information on a British television information system, which very recently is closing down after 38 years of service:

This site celebrates the development of a very British invention. Here you will find information about the development of teletext from its faltering beginnings to a system which has gained worldwide acceptance and which we now take for granted.

Teletext was launched in the UK on 23 September 1974.

Today it’s supposedly hated (or loved) for its dated look and the first decade of the 2000s has seen its role rapidly overtaken by the Internet and ther more graphically attractive services.

In Europe, where it proved most popular it is now dying out along with the analogue tv services which carried it, though it still continues to thrive in countries where broadcast technology is less well advanced.

In July 2009 Teletext Ltd announced its intention to close its teletext news service in Jan 2010, due to falling audience and revenue.

All analogue tv services and teletext will close in the UK by 2013, but The Teletext Museum has been saving the pages here for posterity. 

You can visit the site here

Fab, fab collection! I bloody love Prosthetic Knowledge! 

prostheticknowledge:

Tumblr Crushes - Teletext Version

1. The Antidote
2. Max Capacity
3. Rery
4. Dark Silence In Suburbia
5. Topherchris
6. Lulinternet
7. …. errrr …. Soundwave
8. … Amelie …
9. … CEEFAX …

OK … not all of the above are on Tumblr, and some of the above images you may have seen before. I was asked to submit some more pieces for the International Teletext Art Festival, and I put together some more based on some of my Tumblr favourites.

Finland in March. Take me there! 
(Side note: One of my favourite images EVER was a teletext graphic of Marge Simpson. It was utterly amazing!)

prostheticknowledge:

International Teletext Art Festival 2012 

To be held in March, exhibits and submissions will be broadcasted on Finland’s national broadcast service.

To anyone unfamiliar to Teletext, it was an information service that was supplied through televisions (mainly Europe) throughout the 80s (more at Wikipedia).

Anyone is eligible to submit work, but the deadline is the 25th of January. To make your own, and you have a PC, you can find instructions plus software via here.

I will warn you - despite the lo-fi level of the graphics, it’s a bit more trickier than expected. Here is an example I put together a year ago:

More information about the event can be found on the official page here 

Artist Max Capacity has created works using the Telextext format as a canvas - examples can be found on his Tumblr here (he has submitted work for the event!)

PS - the above examples have been taken from a teletext event from 2006 by the same organizers - you can see the rest of the entries here.