
Typewriters: Print On Demand, curated by Angie and Simon Butler, opens at Gallery Space, Bath School of Art & Design this week. An exciting programme of events accompanies the exhibition.
In celebration of the typewriter, here’s a homage to the machines I have typed on this year.

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck’s Mother’s Adler (1960?)
Doverodde, Denmark

The Adler at Ord Kraft Festival, Aalborg, April 2013
(note the Danish keys)

The book that Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck and I typed on the Adler -
which appears in Typewriters: Print On Demand.

Interlude – an Icelandic pencil sharpener

Underwood, Síldarminjasafn, Siglufjörður, Iceland

Not strictly a typewriter… but a World Famous 10 Key Calculator.
And finally, a typewriter from Angie and Simon Butler’s own collection …
the Olympia Splendid 33 (1968)

Angie and Simon brought the Olympia along to World Book Night Dinner in Oxford last spring, where it was used to make a collaborative bookwork, The Secrets of Metahemeralism (pictured below).

The film of the event even includes a typing soundtrack.