Tall Tales: Modern Totem Poles exhibit

(above On a Roll, an ode to Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” by Yiming Bao, via The Dailly Heller)

design-is-fine:

Paul Rand, Olivetti poster for typewriter lettera 22, 1953

(via popcornforyoureyes)

pink typewriter

(photo by Besttuario:::stgo)

iTypewriter

Longing for the nostalgic clickity clack sound of typing keys on a typewriter? The concept of the iTypewriter accessory by industrial designer Austin Yang, tries to mix the clunkiness and noise of a retro-style typewriter with the new technology and sleek design of Apple’s iPad tablet.

The designer explains the concept for the iTypewriter prototype in his own words:

“It is a typewriter for the ipad. Users can enjoy the old feeling of typing and also the lastest technology…People could be able to recollect old experience and memory by familiar appearance and haptic feedback. Instead of stroking on the screen with no feedback…User can experience the physical strength transfer from the keypad and the movement of each key.”

—Austin Yang, on the iTypewriter

(discovered via mashable, hear the slow typing via youtube)

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