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The photographic work of Matt Monath. Interview here.

Found via Design Juices

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Found via La Vie Bohème

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Photoshoot by Derek Kettela for 25magazine, the new Austrian fashion pub created by Anja Rubik and Sasha Knezevic.

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‘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.

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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 →]

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Typing is always in style.

Found via The Invisible Agent

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By Dmitry Ligay.

Found via adski kafeteri

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‘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

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The work of Jeremy Mayer. More here.

Found via Oddee

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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

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This is a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg of a device used to erase typewriters out of existence.

Really.

Found via Ouno Design

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