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George C. Blickensderfer, American, 1850-1917, Model 6 portable typewriter, c. 1906, aluminum, steel, copper, Manufactured by Blickensderfer Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Connecticut, The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota 98.276.279.1
When George C. Blickensderfer unveiled his Model 5 at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, it caught the imagination of Americans and Europeans alike with its ingeniously simple design.
The world’s first truly portable typewriter, it used a rotating type wheel, which allowed for a speedy change in typeface, and contained about 250 parts – a tenth of the parts that made up its desktop contemporaries.
Blickensderfer would present an even lighter take on the Model 5 in 1906: the Model 6, a lightweight typewriter manufactured exclusively in aluminum. Dubbed the “Five-Pound Private Secretary,” the Model 6 was portable and durable; the company touted it in advertisements as being, “in every way, a high class machine.”
Jennifer Komar Olivarez
Associate Curator, Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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I want! I want! — William Blake
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From Benjamin Betts’ Geometrical Psychology. (via Data Is Nature)
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“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” —
Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness (via freedomdesires)
I love Bukowski
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From Hiroshi Sugimoto’s movie theatre series—decades in the making—in which the shutter remains open for the entire duration of the film.
Best client ever
Designer Gerhard Steidl and Perfumer Geza Schoen have teamed up with Wallpaper magazine and Karl Lagerfeld to create a clever little folly: perfume inspired by freshly printed books.
The packaging and branding are a bit of a missed opportunity, I think, but anything that smells like ink on paper is worth noting.
Lovely work by André Feliciano. (via Collosal, once again)
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by Portland-based artist Mengyu Chen, for her upcoming comic The Encephalic Cinema. (via Collosal)
Type work for C R O W N S I recently did…
From the brilliant Kevin Harris.
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100,000 blue LEDs swarming Tokyo’s Sumida River (via Colossal)