Take your pick
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The all business "present with a future" (ad for the Olivetti Underwood Lettera 32) or the warm-fuzzy typewriter that brings the whole family together.
Typewriter Club Meet tomorrow!
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Our little typewriter club is getting together Saturday at 2pm in the Palette Coffeeshop (same floor as UPPERCASE). Everyone is welcome. If you have a machine to show off or donate to the group, please do stop by.
The images above are from an amazing collection of typewriters being auctioned off here.
I sold my Olympia yesterday to a lovely girl from the UK who is lugging it home as carry-on luggage! I know it has found a loving and attentive new owner. I enjoyed cleaning up this machine and giving it a new life. Next project: a green Royal Quiet Writer Deluxe!
Typewriter illustrations
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type-written
type-smitten
type-mitten
(from the inaugural UPPERCASE typewriter
club, October 13, 2007) Next meeting date
to be announced soon.
Typewriter Club
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Thank you to all who came to the inaugural typewriter club meeting. What noisy, creative fun!
See more photos here.
Olympia De Luxe
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The Olympia De Luxe, circa 1960.
Good design...
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I'm looking forward to reading the new book by Gordon Bruce about Eliot Noyes (published by Phaidon). My particular interest is Noyes' involvement in the industrial design of typewriters. (via Coudal)
Eliot Noyes (1910–77) was a remarkable figure in twentieth-century design. An architect who began his career working in the office of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he went on to become the first Director of the Industrial Design department at MoMA in the 1940s. From the late 1950s until his death in 1977 he was Consulting Director of Design for IBM, Mobil Oil, Westinghouse and Cummins Engine Company, and was responsible for bringing about a change in the way that these corporations, and others that followed, were to think about design and its impact on business. He enlisted pioneering designers, notably Charles Eames, Paul Rand, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, to help him bring about innovative architectural, graphic and industrial design. He was personally responsible for the design of some notable twentieth-century classics, such as IBM’s Selectric typewriter …
Old Valentines find new love
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Here are some treasures that combine my two obsessions: vintage papers + typewriters. I'll be rearranging the gallery to display a wonderful collection of vintage valentines (1890s through 1960s). The majority of the valentines will be for sale for $3 - $30 (except for a few that I can't bear to part with!)
