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Artist Jesse England has created a “new” typewriter that might leave designers cringing in horror—for his latest art project, he replaced all the existing fonts of a classic typewriter with the debatable Comic Sans typeface.
To create his modified typewriter called ‘Sincerity Machine’, the Pittsburgh-based artist used a laser engraving machine to make acrylic Comic Sans letters, and glued them onto the strikers of an old manual typewriter.
England also created new vinyl covers in the Comic Sans font for the typewriter’s keys for a sleek finish.
“As part of my ongoing thesis of questioning how we create, consume, store (and fetishize) media, it’s my wish that a classic, functioning typewriter altered to write in the most popularly despised font of modern times will provoke thoughts about such media concerns,” said England.
Designers, what do you think of England’s ‘Sincerity Machine’?
Check out the revamped typewriter in the video and images below.
[via Gizmodo, images via Jesse England and YouTube]
Artist Jesse England has created a “new” typewriter that might leave designers cringing in horror—for his latest art project, he replaced all the existing fonts of a classic typewriter with the debatable Comic Sans typeface.
To create his modified typewriter called ‘Sincerity Machine’, the Pittsburgh-based artist used a laser engraving machine to make acrylic Comic Sans letters, and glued them onto the strikers of an old manual typewriter.
England also created new vinyl covers in the Comic Sans font for the typewriter’s keys for a sleek finish.
“As part of my ongoing thesis of questioning how we create, consume, store (and fetishize) media, it’s my wish that a classic, functioning typewriter altered to write in the most popularly despised font of modern times will provoke thoughts about such media concerns,” said England.
Designers, what do you think of England’s ‘Sincerity Machine’?
Check out the revamped typewriter in the video and images below.
[via Gizmodo, images via Jesse England and YouTube]