ASCII Curtains redefine interior design

There's absolutely no shortage of ways to geek up the inside of your domicile, but few creations posses the perfect balance of class and geekiness like the ASCII Curtains. Reportedly hand-crafted by designer / artist / undiscovered genius Nieke Sybrandy, these nerdalicious curtains feature a light gray tree motif that is compiled entirely from code. Breathtaking, no? Hit the read link for one more look -- and don't even bother phoning up Bed Bath & Beyond, we already tried.

[Via gearcrave, thanks William]

[Aguiluz Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:54PM]

Wow! Just Wow! ASCII art is truly amazing.

Now if they make it colored letters...

[jgpuff Posted Mar 18th 2008 5:16PM]

I could do without colour, to be honest. What I want is all this, but on a flexible fabric display rather than printed. Just think - you could have an ascii waterfall or a swaying tree or your server logs. Or anything. It would be awesome.

Then and only then will I cream my pants.

[Larz Posted Mar 18th 2008 6:39PM]

I agree. I mean, the white with black text is good and all, but give us black with white letters, black with green letters like my old Apple II+, or just multi-color like Linux.

Still, damn cool, I'd buy it if only my wife wouldn't kill me for doing so.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 9:48PM]

Thank God they used that black and white curtain to cover up those Godforsaken actual color trees in the background. ;-)

[erhan28 Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:58PM]

One Word
Wordwrap

:)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 3:58PM]

If they make an ASCII shower curtain I'm on board...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 9:08AM]

oh, heck yes! shower curtains, table cloths.. sign me up for the ASCII of the month club!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:05PM]

Printed or sewn? Either way that is ridiculous.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:14PM]

Ya just don't get it Scott, do you?

- Dr Evil

[spacegravity4me Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:51PM]

Yes! OMG yes! Thank you so freakin much!!! Oh I loled all over myself with that one man. That was perfect! rofl.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:08PM]

So how much is it a byte? I think I'm going to need several MB of this.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:09PM]

I think I would actually buy those. They look nice from afar, but up close, they are a conversation peice!

[ack154 Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:10PM]

Ikea or someone should be talking to this guy about a line of home furnishings or something. I'd give them a look...

[HeadsetChatter Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:12PM]

WANT. This could make me take down the cheap $5 paper blinds I've had since I moved in, and actually hang curtains.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:31PM]

Yep, not going to lie, I'd sport the hell out of these.

[Lmo Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:32PM]

you CAN order the curtains:

http://www.nsybrandy.nl/html/verkoop.html

Z.T.m.V. #07 Gordijnen:
you can order curtains at:

Print Unlimited
Postal address:
P.O. Box 6157
5960 AD Horst
The Netherlands

Visiting address:
Industrieterrein Hoogveld I
Handelstraat 2
5961 PV Horst
The Netherlands

T [phone]
F [phone]
E [e-mail]

[TRAFFICBLOWS Posted Mar 18th 2008 9:00PM]

Need an English site!! Who the hell knows what the opening paragraph says (free-translation.imtranslator.net):

"All products from the serial without title with tale are buy.
Wheel a mail with in this the choice and address data then takes I
contact with you."

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 7:46AM]

Translation:
All products from the series "Without Title, with Story" are for sale. Send a mail with your choice and your address and I will contact you.

I quoted the (translated) title -> that really messed up the translation by imtranslator.

[Tiptup300 Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:33PM]

Wow, so we can pirate curtains now?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:41PM]

I wonder how much he charges for a forum sig...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:50PM]

It's Nienke and she's a woman...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:51PM]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I got so hot and bothered by the design I didn't pay close enough attention.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 4:55PM]

These are actually very beautiful. I'm impressed.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 5:31PM]

to be honest, there is nothing very genius about this. ASCII art has been around since ASCII's inception, and this isn't a particularly innovative approach to applying it to interiors. A friend of mine made ASCII wallpaper as a class project at RISD several years ago. It's nothing that takes a huge amount of skill or imagination. It's as simple as doing a "fill with pattern" in photoshop.

i'm sure its overpriced and under-crafted too. Perfectly suited for Urban Outfitters.

[DTJ Posted Mar 18th 2008 7:20PM]

My my, isn't someone upset he didn't think of commercializing this first, hmmm?

[ack154 Posted Mar 18th 2008 9:18PM]

So if you want to believe that this is awesome just b/c it's ASCII, then go ahead. But it's the execution and look and overall idea that makes this cool. Of course ASCII art is nothing new... it's just being put to different uses.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 7:22PM]

That looks great.

[the steven Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:10PM]

WANT!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:33PM]

"compiled entirely from code"?

since when is ASCII "code"

regardless; this is rad.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:35PM]

to elaborate: "In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s)."

this isn't 1s and 0s, it's just characters... but i suppose now i'm just focusing on code. er, i mean semantics.

[El Duderino Posted Mar 18th 2008 10:38PM]

It reminds me of those Space Invaders scarves.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 2:48AM]

i used to ascii it up during classes in highschool on my compaq lte elite 4/75 cx laptop.... i cant believe i remembered that name. i painted a scull on the back of the screne, it was da bomb

[Xepol Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:07AM]

oh ya, I totally want curtains like that... Except in green I think.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 16th 2008 2:49PM]

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