A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing
Sulki and Min’s cerebral, intelligent work really strike a chord with me. I was fortunate enough to be at the opening of their latest exhibition Sulki & Min: Obscuring & Clarifying in Hangzhou earlier this week. Their experience studying and working in the Netherlands, studying under Sheila de Brettville at Yale, their influences from Robin …
Books are my favourite objects. There is nothing more satisfying than flipping through a well made book. There are of course badly made books, too. But those books also deserve to be published. They nonetheless still add to the world’s knowledge. The physical properties of a book make them great objects. A stack of paper, …
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
I’m now buying second-hand typewriters at a rate of one machine per week. If I don’t stop soon I’ll run out of room in my tiny Hong Kong apartment very quickly. I’m now writing on an Olivetti Valentine, a ‘designer classic’ by Italian industrial designer Ettore Sottsass (and finished by British designer Perry King). This …
Continue reading “Typecasting, take two: writing on a manual typewriter”
Apparently typecasting is a thing – typing on a typewriter then posting a scanned image of the result in a blog. Joe van Cleave’s blog is an example. Joe suggests that in the age of word processing, there is still a place for typewriters as a writing tool for first drafts, using paper as a …