Collaged on an antique book cover is a ROYAL manual typewriter that came in some new-fangled colors when it was manufactured back in the day. The girls, lending their vintage presence, are from an antique stash of paper I purchased years ago at a Paris flea market.
All that said, for my career I worked as a keyline/pasteup artist & typesetter AND as a secretary (primarily dictaphone). I am a very fast typist (clocked in at 125 words per minute back in the day -- average typing speed is around 50 WPM) and the first time I encountered a computer with a screen situation (I remember it like it was yesterday) I froze. By the end of the day I knew I could never go back to my IBM Selectric or the ROYAL manual clunker I learned on in secondary school!
Lovely! I did used to love tip tapping away on my Antares Parva when I was deep into mail arting in the 80's and 90's.
ReplyDeleteWell, of course, there is still a great use for the vintage machines...
DeleteI like the combination of colours and the marbling, all works perfectly.
ReplyDeleteGreat invention the old typewriter with a great sound too!