Practice makes prefect
October 18, 2014 10:36 AM Subscribe

Álvaro Franca's Typewritten Portraits is a time-lapse video showing the artist using the typewriter to progressively, manually build portraits of favorite authors. Other works also deal with the idea of repetition in type, including calligraphy, a multilingual silkscreen and patterns of icons.
posted by a lungful of dragon (3 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite

The icons: includes male cloud (download) & female cloud (upload)...
posted by Monkey0nCrack at 11:26 AM on October 18, 2014

He's no Paul Smith.
posted by Sys Rq at 1:10 PM on October 18, 2014 [2 favorites]

Whoa. Paul Smith is amazing! Álvaro Franca's no pushover either.
posted by umbú at 8:28 PM on October 18, 2014

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