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Life According to Thomas Broome

Swedish artist Thomas Broome creates images out of words. Literally. This ongoing project, which he calls Modern Mantra, explores the everyday dimensionality of objects, using the object’s name to give it form.

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Bokeh Type

Here’s a fun experiment to help you get over the mid-week blahs. Head over to the Bokeh Type webpage, click in the center and start typing. I’m not sure what exactly is going on there, but it is pretty cool.
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In Celebration of: Giant Typewriters

I’m not sure whether this was a marketing move or an engineering challenge, but really…what’s not to like about a giant typewriter?

Giant typewriters also played a regular role as props in comic books.

In their performance of “Too Marvelous for Words,” Ruby Keeler and Lee Dixon tapped all over giant typewriter keys while the chorus line [...]

Typewriters and Ribbon Tins

Let’s take a moment for the typewriter shall we? Remember those heavy, wonderful machines that would get lugged out when there was something important to write? With those tiny, quick-striking arms holding letters that were just the size for your fingers to explore? The thrill of the line-ending bell, the cool metal of the return [...]

Interesting and Inspiring 78 Labels

Though 78 rpm records are a rare sighting these days, they do still occasionally show up in my world. The records themselves are usually trashed, having been stored with no sleeve for several decades, but the labels still provide a great deal of design and type inspiration with their classic and creative style.
If you dig [...]

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