Alan Riddell, ‘Typewriter Art’ (1975) (all images via monoskop.org) The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell’s Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting ...

A book documents how typewriters have been used to create astonishing works of graphic art for more than a century. One quality that seems to define humanity isn’t just its compulsion to create art, ...

BEND, Ore. — Long before the advent of tablets, laptops and, heck, fax machines, the sound of clacking typewriters, with their telltale “dings” and whooshing carriage returns, filled offices across ...

LONDON — James Cook sits calmly at his desk, with the only sound the clickety clack of his typewriter. As he works, a portrait of a boy takes shape. From Hollywood star Tom Hanks to the London Eye ...

It’s possible to spend a fair length of time doing something intuitively, just because you can sense somehow that that thing is good and right and beneficial for you; then there is an added pleasure ...

However, in the context of an upcoming talk at St Bride’s, the notion takes on an entirely new quality. Next week, the book arts, typography and design library is hosting a talk by Barrie Tullett ...

A typewriter that paints? Artist Tyree Callahan modified this 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to do just that, replacing each key with a different hue that can paint on paper. A chromatic ...

Many wordsmiths have created their magnus opus on typewriters -- tapping away into the early hours of the morning -- but artist Keira Rathbone uses these now largely obsolete machines to type pictures ...

An artist who uses a typewriter to make art will be doing live drawings at a library. Keira Rathbone will draw pictures of people using what she calls her "time-travelling" writing device on 10 May.

Celebrated British artist Keira Rathbone creates much of her art using a typewriter. In this digital age Rathbone consciously chose a more old-fashioned technique. A traditional keyboard creation can ...