Alexa Chung Stella cover, art by clara0502
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll have noticed that I really enjoyed this British import that found her way to MTV last year.
Unfortunately, MTV didn’t know what the hell to do with Alexa Chung. (She recently, came clean with her take on what went wrong with her MTV show.) She’s smart, funny and today is still working on conquering the US – one way or another. [Read more →]
Photoshoot by Derek Kettela for 25magazine, the new Austrian fashion pub created by Anja Rubik and Sasha Knezevic.
‘The Valentine Notebook, shares the Olivetti Valentine’s red case, pullout keyboard form and functional beauty’
Design students Julia Kaisinger, Pia Weitgasser, Martin Zopf and Tony Weichselbraun of the University of Applied Arts Vienna have rethunk Olivetti‘s Valentine typewriter. More info here.
An Olivetti Manual typewriter at Urban Outfitters? Cool comeback.
Back in the 1950s, Italian business machine manufacturer Olivetti developed a super cool house style under the design leadership of Giovanni Pintori. The work of Paul Rand, Herbert Bayer, Walter Ballmer, Ettore Sottsass, Milton Glazer followed. [Read more →]
‘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
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.
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Randy Brooks And His Orchestra: Harlem Nocturne
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