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My friend posted The Kooks' 'Is It Me' music video on my wall, because she knew I liked typewriters. For a long while there has been an up in the use of typewriters in illustration and graphic design, but in recent years it seems they have become more commercially used. I was walking in Carnaby St the other day and I saw a shopfront with the company's new range and the information coming out of a typewriter, I think it was Diesel.
This also reminded me of the printed t-shirts of machines and the typewriter necklaces that Urban Outfitters do.


This necklace of a gold replica with a print sample has evolved into a simple graphical representation:


It seems quite fitting at this time as the world's last typewriter was made this summer by Mumbai based company 'Godrej and Boyce.' Approximately 12,000 machines were being produced up until 2009 - when they were still commonly used in India, and now the company is down to it's last 200 for sale.