Typewriter art in Berlin

Kulturpropaganda presents: Secrets & Type

Group exhibit with works that have been created using mechanical typewriters or that depict such.

Typewriters - relicts of the good old offline times, nowadays mainly stirring nostalgic feelings. But they, too, were a communications tool designated to increase efficiency. They were used for documentary and creative purposes in literature, science, journalism, served states and technocrats, spies and revolutionaries alike made them clatter.

The exhibition presents samples of contemporary usage of typewriters by artists fognin,Friederike Hammann, Franziska Jentsch, Lars Maurmaier, mehrmagda, Jochen Möller, Kerstin Quitsch, Claudia Simon, TEENA and others. 

"Hello World":

Edward Snowden:

A Sincere Improvement?

How about hacking a typewriter to use that much-maligned and little-loved typeface, Comic Sans?

Jesse England has done such a thing with his "Sincerity Machine" and though it may not score high for durability, it more than earns points for creativity. Type-modders, take note: DIY Fraktur may be within your grasp.

The Rhinos are back! The Rhinos are back!

Pour the coffee and get a fresh ribbon, for the NaNoWriMo Typewriter Brigade has risen again for 2014. C'mon over and join us for a month of noisemaking, won't you?

Her last breath

I thought I'd take a moment to highlight one of the most remarkable blogs in our blogroll, Types of America. Read the whole story here, and be sure to check out the other posts from this mysterious typing traveler.

You couldn't use a computer in this cartoon

From the latest New Yorker.