Machines & Letterforms
Ongoing
For several years, I have been building a collection of vintage typewriters, focusing on machines with distinctive typefaces, which I regularly use for writing, correspondence, and creative projects. Presently, the collection includes about fifty manual typewriters with, altogether, about forty different typefaces. My current favorite is an Olivetti M40/3, made in Italy circa 1946, with a sans-serif typeface called Simplicitas. Nearly all of the machines are fully functional, though some I am still in the process of reconditioning. I previously trained and worked professionally as a typewriter technician for almost four years at Gramercy Typewriter Co.
Remington Model 5 (Streamline) portable typewriter, made ca. 1936.
A sample of Remington’s Pica no. 6, typed on a Remington Model 5 (Streamline), made ca. 1936.