This blog is the new home of The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. Within you'll find lots of References to Retrotech (mainly of the typewriter variety) as well as Whimsical and Amateurish Poetry and the occasional Commentary on Whatever I'm Thinking About at the Moment.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Badges
Only your neighborhood typewriter repairman knows for sure.
Well, a brief google search seems to indicate a local political figure (local to Orlando, that is) that may have been - if not famous - at least infamous. So maybe people really DO know. (*duffy rushes home to disassemble machine, searching for laundered campaign contributions...*)
Interesting they all feature variants of the same font: Futura. Which I think is the 'house' font for the rear manufacturer badges of Paillard (Hermes) and Olympia.
oooh, I like the George Stuart one - very classy (:
ReplyDeleteDitto on the George Stuart badge: memorable, even if he didn't include such trivialities as a phone number. People who know George just KNOW.
ReplyDeleteWell, a brief google search seems to indicate a local political figure (local to Orlando, that is) that may have been - if not famous - at least infamous. So maybe people really DO know.
ReplyDelete(*duffy rushes home to disassemble machine, searching for laundered campaign contributions...*)
Interesting they all feature variants of the same font: Futura. Which I think is the 'house' font for the rear manufacturer badges of Paillard (Hermes) and Olympia.
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