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Typewriter skin
‘Dave Quattrini has created this fun stickers for Paris-based sticker company, Les invations éphémères. Designed specially for laptop, the removable and reposition-able stickers will turn your Macbook or other laptop keyboard into a nostalgic feeling old fashioned typewriter.’
Found via Design Year Book
It was a dark night . . .
Chandler 42 was one of my first typefaces – and one of the earliest ‘grunge’ typewriter font packages to hit the market.
It has details in it one won’t see in other autotraced typewriter adaptations. Eight fonts in the complete package. Snag your copy here.
Click on the above image to read/jump. Mood music below.
Randy Brooks And His Orchestra: Harlem Nocturne
Typewriter eraser
This is a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg of a device used to erase typewriters out of existence.
Really.
Found via Ouno Design
A Brief History of the Typewriter
Here’s an odd little video about this 19th century invention that put metal type in the hands of the general public.
And
Here’s an excellent resource: Professor Richard Polt’s original Classic Typewriter Page – live since 1995. Even answers that age old question, ‘Why doesn’t my typewriter have a numeral 1?’
Polt’s World-Famous Flying Oliver
Paul Klee invents Twitter, 1922
‘The ‘twittering’ in the title doubtless refers to the birds, while the ‘machine’ is suggested by the hand crank’
Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine). Oil transfer drawing on paper with watercolor and ink on board with gouache and ink borders. 1922.
Magic Highway USA
‘An excerpt from the 1958 Disneyland TV Show episode entitled Magic Highway USA’
Arroyo-Seco Parkway
The first freeway in the west. Designed to be a garden one drives thru at high speed.
Compared to freeways built much later, everything feels . . . miniature. Like Disney’s original Autopia ride.
Historical site here. Poster (below) by Louis Quirarte.
Autobahn font
‘Drawing inspiration from WWII German Autobahn road signs and Helmut Lang’
Berkeley-based Autograph Creative’s United Nations poster and typeface.
Before the U.S. Interstate, there was the Autobahn
Illustration of the Hirschberg Saale Bridge with rest area – featured in propaganda posters for the German Autobahn highway system.
Found via Third Reich Ruins
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