Paul Rose – Teletext Art

Knowledge base

Viewer-submitted teletext art – Gallery and Frame-It

Gallery (4-Tel) To encourage audience participation, Channel 4’s 4-Tel service instituted Gallery, featuring viewers’ hand-drawn art. The service would send out a pack of...

Dan Farrimond6 days ago

Knowledge base

Turner the Worm, Teletext Ltd. (1993-2009)

Turner the Worm was a fondly-remembered cartoon strip that ran on Teletext‘s Kids section from 1992 until the service’s final day in 2009. In...

Dan FarrimondOctober 15, 2026

Knowledge base

Teletext Design: An Overview

Styles Despite its restrictions, teletext is capable of facilitating a variety of styles. It may carry a certain aesthetic, but as a medium it...

Dan FarrimondOctober 8, 2026

Announcements

2024 Advent Calendars on Yle Text (1 December 2024 – 6 January 2025)

The Teletext Community Advent calendar is back on Yle Text to celebrate a decade of textmode jollity and pixel art frivolity! Not only is...

Dan FarrimondNovember 28, 2024

Teletext’s Mega-Zine: A (Not So) Brief History

Mega-Zine was a teletext page showcasing viewer-submitted content that began on 3rd January 1993. It debuted on Teletext Ltd’s Channel 3 (ITV) analogue service...

Dan FarrimondNovember 13, 2023

Artists

Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)

Biography As Graphic Designer at Teletext Ltd (1993-2003), Rose co-created the world-infamous daily video games magazine Digitiser, in addition to drawing hundreds of icons...

Dan FarrimondMay 6, 2023

Interviews

Teletext R Podcast, 31 August 2020 – Sara Scott-Rivers of Teletext Ltd, Datasolve, ITM, GWV and Videotron

In her glittering career, Sara Scott-Rivers worked extensively with both Viewdata and teletext. Following designer-editor roles with Prestel in the 1980s, she joined Teletext...

Dan FarrimondAugust 31, 2020

Interviews

[Audio] Blockdown Party, 25 April 2020 – Morning Session Highlights

On Saturday 25th April 2020, teletexters from around the universe gathered in the Teletext Discord to make beautiful data together. Dozens of artists collaborated...

Dan FarrimondApril 28, 2020