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(non)material text

A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing

Author: Keith Tam

Typographer, information designer and academic based in Hong Kong
Posted on 23 August 202023 August 2020

Write, don’t think

(Thanks to Amy Chan for reminding me of this movie and the sending me this clip. Typed on the Adler Gabriele 25.)

Posted on 22 August 202022 August 2020

Using a typewriter to teach typography

Posted on 21 August 20205 February 2023

Articulating text hierarchy

(scroll down for article in digital text and images) Visually coding the structural hierarchy of a text (ie different levels of headings, etc) is the bread and butter of what we need to handle when writing and editing documents of all kinds, in word processing, page layout and digital publishing environments. Graphical resources are used …

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Posted on 12 August 202013 August 2020

On keeping a journal (or something to that effect)

Something else I wrote five days ago along the same vein, but didn’t publish: First and final drafts written on the Adler Tippa 1 manual typewriter

Posted on 4 August 20204 August 2020

Adler Tippa 1

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