Illarterate Portfolio

Teletext art // Teletext40 advent calendar 2015

Dan Farrimond — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:55:54 +0000

collaborative project to produce a piece of seasonal teletext art for each day leading up to Christmas 2015. As seen on teletext40.com in December 2015.

With contributions from Simon Ferre and RonnieBigBoots amongst others.

Illarterate submissions

Greenland

Kiritimati

Merry Yaksmas 2015

Pud Will To All Men

He Knows When You Are Sleeping

Santa Snatcher

Other submissions

Snowman by Simon Ferre

Getaway by Steve Horsley

Gingerbread Men by Simon Ferre

Stocking by Simon Ferre

Teletext music video // Lancashire’s For Me by the Lancashire Hotpots

Dan Farrimond — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:20:41 +0000

A music/lyric combo video in the style of Pages From Ceefax, 4-Tel on View and Hands Up. Released on Lancashire Day, 27 November 2015, hence the date in the video.

A few sample frames

Welcome to Lancashire

Pages From Teafax

Bowland tourism

Lancashire rose

Hotpots will be back soon

Teletext dating // A Small Cinema teletext classifieds // BFI Love Film season

Dan Farrimond — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:56:12 +0000

A selection of templates for the Liverpool Small Cinema @TeletextDating project initiated for BFI’s Love Film season.

Small Cinema Classifieds Follow

Small Cinema Needs Your Messages

Small Cinmea Love Film listings

Small Cinema left template

Teletext art // Mistfax // Mistigris 21st Anniversary Artpack submission

Dan Farrimond — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 15:31:46 +0000

A teletext pseudo-service for demoscene group Mistigris‘ 21st Anniversary Artpack.

Overview video

Selection of my submissions

Mist21

Intro

Virtuality

Cake

Beefy

Dunk

See here for all submissions from all artists.
The full pack (about 200mb) can be downloaded here.

Teletext art workshop // Superbyte Festival 2015, Manchester

Dan Farrimond — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:59:59 +0000

Drop-in workshop as part of the Superbyte chipmusic festival, returning for a second year. Here’s more information on the 2014 incarnation of this pixel art party.

See all artwork produced at Flickr.

Or, have a taster:

And here’s some video footage…

Teletext art // Fringefax // Stroud Fringe 2015

Dan Farrimond — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:10:29 +0000

A selection of pages for Peter Kwan’s Fringefax service, shown on the weekend of 29th and 30th August 2015 at the Stroud Fringe Festival.

A YouTube version is available… right here!

My own contributions…

And the service in situ at eCycle, courtesy @Stroud_Fringe. Hypnocat is also my graphic.

Don’t look at it for too long!

Teletext art // St Helens vs The Lizards // Escape room service

Dan Farrimond — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:00:12 +0000

Teletext mini-service for the St Helens vs The Lizards escape room in St Helens Central Library from 15 to 29 August 2015.

Promo artwork:

Some St Helens-related pages from the service…

Some pictures of the television in situ, courtesy Re-Dock/Sam Meech:

Scrabble for an answer

Weddings at St Helens Town Hall

Instant messaging service

Teletext art // Networked Narrative – Text Adventure Time // Wigan Teletext

Dan Farrimond — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:35:40 +0000

Wigan teletext pages for FACT/Re-Dock’s ‘Networked Narrative‘ project to create a text adventure linking the towns of Hull, Burnley and Wigan.

Text Adventure Time website

George Formby – Anarchy in the Uke

Haigh Hall

Mesnes Park Pavilion

Uncle Joe

Wigan Youth Zone

Wigan Pier

The next two are based on the fictional world created by those attending workshops in the three northern settlements.

Wigan Parish Church in 2065

Wigan Underground Map, 2065

Teletext art workshop // St Helens vs The Lizards // St Helens Central Library

Dan Farrimond — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:21:31 +0000

Drop-in workshop held at St Helens Central Library on 8 August 2015 to collect teletext art for the St Helens vs The Lizards escape room.

All artwork produced at the workshop is available at this Flickr photostream.

Here’s someone (possibly me) fiddling with an anachronistic television…

And here are some examples of artwork produced:

Retris Unlim // Retro Unlim web banners

Dan Farrimond — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 13:56:49 +0000

Various graphics for the Retro Unlim 2015 redesign.

Retris Unlim website banner.

Mr T forum banner

Arnie forum banner.

Retro Unlim Spreadshirt banner.