Best project...ever? Michael and Lenka's Typewriter Drawings

Date
18 April 2013

Ohhhh this is so nice. Last November, while you were perhaps been toiling away at a tax return or flicking numb-eyed through the Argos catalogue that you found on the bus, friends and occasional artistic collaborators Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton were up to something very special indeed. Every day in November Michael and Lenka would create one drawing of something they had witnessed first hand that day, using only a typewriter as their medium.

The results are a meltingly pleasant and touching collection of some of the sweetest, most honest images you’ll see in a long time. In one picture, Michael (i’m guessing, could be Lenka) describes waking up, rolling a dice, and landing a six, “surely an omen for a good day.” You can see them all here.

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton: Typewriter Drawings

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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