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The Typo Dress, Mary Katrantzou (A/W2012)
When this dress strutted down London Fashion Week’s catwalk earlier this year, a flurry of emails, texts and FB postings headed my way from friends and colleagues (with thanks). As detailed by...
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Your Mobile is a Typewriter: iPhone Cases
With the rise and rise of steampunk, our newest technology can be cloaked, rendered anachronistic as an image of technology past collides with the contemporary. And in its cloaking the typewriter is a...
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What is Media Archaeology, Jussi Parikka (2012)
A recent addition to Writing Technologies‘ bookshelves, I have been pouring through Jussi Parikka’s What is Media Archaeology?, an intellectually furious run through the field in which I work. As with...
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Typewriter Bookplates, Mac & Ninny (2012)
As part of the nostalgia drive, slow communication is pushing its way back into popular culture, even as fast communication is at the forefront of cultural and technological development. As The...
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The first electric typerwriter, and a key machine in the development of the typewheel, the logo for Blickensderfer’s Electric Typewriter of 1902 is a graphic which captures the ideas around energy and...
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Over at the Yahoo Typewriters Group, discussions range from the minutae of typewriter restoration, to typewriter collector meeting arrangements to typewriter history, both large and small. In these...
View ArticleEvery Image Has A Sound
From Design Observer comes a post on Audible Posters, featuring the work of the Brazilian sound company, Saxso Funny. The images are taken from a video short, made for Cannes 2009. The company’s work...
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Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (1982)
Published in 1982, Bob Neill’s Book of Typewriter Art (with special computer programme) is an extrordinary manual on how to create images on a typewriter, with full line writing instructions. What...
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