The ASCII Digital Design Museum is a born-digital research archive founded by Rozita Sophia Fogelman to document and advance systems-based visual design using ASCII and Unicode characters as primary material. Established as a public-facing platform, the museum operates simultaneously as archive, laboratory, and educational resource—demonstrating how complex visual structures, spatial logic, and architectural pattern systems can emerge from minimal digital code.
Working within the constraints of 8- and 16-bit character sets, the museum presents an extensive body of text-generated compositions produced in real time, without raster images or vector graphics. These works investigate repetition, modularity, density, and rhythm as core design principles, positioning text not as content but as structural matter.
Recognized with the Iron A’ Design Award for Reflective Conceptual Ideation, the ASCII Digital Design Museum represents a sustainable, post-material approach to visual research—eliminating physical resources while maintaining permanence, accessibility, and global reach. The archive continues to function as an evolving record of early and ongoing experiments in digital abstraction, net art, and computationally informed design practice.
Iron A’ Design Award — Reflective Conceptual Ideation
