Red Door #28 - The TYPEWRITTEN issue

SMITH CORONA
Born in Ohio, Frank Singleton
studied history at Ohio State and
philosophy at the State University
of New York at Buffalo. He had little
interest in art until after college he
hitchhiked around Europe for a
year and spent much of that time
visiting art museums. His passion
for typewriter art began on a holiday
Thanksgiving in November, 1983.
While waiting for a turkey to come
out of the oven, he pulled out his old
college typewriter—which is still in
use today—and on impulse began
typing designs. Singleton’s typework
is in the permanent collection of
the Perez Museum in Miami and
the Sackner Archive in Iowa. His
typework was prominently featured
in the book The Art of Typewriting by
Ruth and Marvin Sackner.
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