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Tuesday 28 August 2012

The vintage art of typewriting

I was moseying around an antiques fair in Buxton Pavillion Gardens in Derbyshire over the weekend, when I stumbled upon a curiously characterful vintage find..
.An Underwood portable typewriter, still in its carrying case – and bearing the original warranty. This magnificent machine must surely have been the iPad of its day?


There’s no date on the typewriter or the case, but the dealer suggested this model dates from around 1929. Unusually, the shift and caps keys are in Eastern European typeface - can someone please let ShopCurious know which language this is?

Anyway, it brought back memories of layers of coloured copy paper – yellow, pink, green and blue… and multiple Tipp-ex papers to erase errors.

Oh, and forget iPad art a la David Hockney: What about this story from Oddity Central about Paul Smith, an artist with severe cerebral palsy, who creates the most extraordinary art using an old fashioned typewriter.



Who needs modern technology…


Do you?

2 comments:

worm said...

hi susan! good to see you back

here's a new spin on the typewriter

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-igBDhTuNIvo/ToN2tjirffI/AAAAAAAAAbk/50r2DcXQJ50/s1600/usb-typewriter-ipad.jpg

Susan said...

Ah yes, I've seen the usb port typewriter, Worm. Funny that when you add two aesthetically appealing design objects together they end up looking so ugly. And I guess curiously clunky to use as well. Another mashup too far. Why??