HOW DOES IT MEAN? TO

MAKE TYPEWRITER ART.

THE IMAGE AND THE PAINSTAKING EFFORT INVOLVED. THIS 1975 BOOK USED TO BE FINDABLE. NOW THEY ARE LIKE MOON

ROCKS AND SPACE DUST.

OUT THERE SOMEWHERE

BUT EVER SO UNLIKELY TO LAND ON YOUR DESK TOMORROW. WE DO HAVE

ONE COPY THAT COULD

MAKE SUCH A LANDING THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW :)




Really does have the 1975 out of this world kind of vibe. Those cool triangles in the sky with cacti picture by Dom Sylvester Houédard on the cover. Italic ode it's called. 1971. The book is by Alan Riddell - himself quite the Kandinsky of the keyboard. 
 

More artistic art by concrete poet Bob Cobbing. Whisper Piece (1969).
 

And the great joy of this book. Tosca the police dog by Will Hollis way back in 1957. May not have quite the most enigmatic look but it's a masterpiece of the service dog portrait genre for sure. 
 

Enter the vortex. Gary Blake's 1974 typewriter art typewriter. Kind of like making a banana sculpture from a banana but a lot more fiddly. 
 

And this could be seen to continue the kitsch theme but we would like to suggest that this is actually one of the best pictures of the Queen we have ever seen. Yummmm her mouth seems to say. And the eyes are actual just freeform crazy. We made a few portraits ourselves, as you will see below, and can assure you that Dennis W. A. Collins 1953 representation of Queen Elizabeth sits at the highest point of a very steep learning curve. 
 

We weren't expecting that. A very 2020 page from Willard S. Bain's novel about the assassination of JFK Informed Sources. The whole book was designed as a series of teleprinter messages. 

We have one of these books. As we said, they disappeared. Aliens came down to earth, stuck a USB stick into the Internet and sucked up all the Typewriter Art books. Quite likely, these weren't just pictures of the Queen and random police dogs but messages sent to the stars. 

This one copy on the button below.