vintage ad for Olivetti Lexikon Elettrica typewriter designed by Giovanni Pintori

(found in an old Graphis magazine c. 1955 via letterologist)

restored vintage typewriters by Kasbah Mod

(above c. 1950s Smith-Corona custom painted with yellow and orange)

“Cold War Relics: The Wende Museum Saves Communist Design”

Steven Heller interviews the Founder and Director for the Wende Museum in Culver City, Justinian Jampol.

“From toys to chunks of the Berlin Wall, this California-based collection is showing that Cold War design is more than just propaganda.”
—Steven Heller

The publisher Taschen is publishing a large book for “the world’s largest Cold War visual archive” in 2012 to coincide with the Wende Museum’s 10th anniversary.

(via The Atlantic)

As part of his Disassembly series, artist Todd McLellan takes apart various gadgets ranging from and old Pentax camera to a Smith-Corona typewriter and arranges the parts into neatly organized still life photographs.

(first discovered via Flavorwire)

vintage Simplex Typewriter (first discovered via B-Kay)

hellotypewriter:

Just about anything is possible through the imaginative world of Lego.

Lego Typewriter 1 (via DuffyMoon)

Just discovered the new tumblr site Hey, Cool Magazine! thanks to @litherland

(front cover for above August 1930 issue designed by Walter Buehr)

heycoolmagazine:

Fortune, 1930.

vintage Olivetti Studio 44 ad designed by Giovanni Pintori
(via ninonbooks)

Eight:48 magazine launches
(via Counter-Print)

No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One Heads to Auction

“…Christie’s, which plans to auction the machine on Friday, estimated that it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000. Mr. McCarthy wrote an authentication letter — typed on the Olivetti, of course…” —via NYTimes.com

vintage Olivetti Studio 44 poster designed by Giovanni Pintori (via ninonbooks)

Typewriter Memorabilia set (via uppercaseyyc on flickr)

just discovered the Writing Machines pool on flickr

(above photo via Airam82)