The CTCTR

I can’t recall if I’ve mentioned it specifically before here on The Typewritemosphere, but it is probably worth noting that I am not “anti-technology”. Just because I am a typewriter enthusiast, I do not deplore technology. While I do feel that our society has suffered a certain amount of degradation thanks to an overabundance of data consumption by many, I do still manage to have my share of fun with things a bit more technically advanced than typewriters from time to time. Furthermore, I actually worked for a number of high tech companies in a variety of roles over the years.

During this period of time I was mainly involved in marketing communications as both a graphic designer and as a webmaster among other responsibilities. While I haven’t had too much need to revisit my design skills for some time now, I did have a need to create some graphic elements for this blog. As these simple graphics work well in print form, I went ahead and used them in creating my own stationery to use for the many typewritten letters that I was cranking out. My wife has a pretty nice color laser printer that she purchased for her work, which has proven to be perfect for producing small runs of such stationery.

Given that I basically have my own design studio / pre-press facility / print shop at my disposal (by way of my MacBook, some software from Affinity, and my wlfe’s laser printer), I started to think of other things that I could do when it came to my personal stationery. The next thing I knew, I was daydreaming about imaginary agencies of all sorts, each with their own unique stationery that I could use as my own.

I came up with a plethora of ideas in no time at all, but ended up settling on the Center for Typewritten Communications and Typewriter Reclamation as my starting point. I’ve kept things simple to start with, but sooner or later things are bound to get out of hand at the CTCTR when bureaucracy inevitably runs amok. At that point, the only logical thing to do will be to create an Oversight Committee of some sort to keep an eye on the Center for Typewritten Communications and Typewriter Reclamation. This is bound to lead to all sorts of design possibilities to keep me busy while keeping my stationery from getting too stagnant. Not that anyone really cares, it’s just all part of a day’s typed fun.

AFTERTHOUGHTS: My thanks to Ted Munk for noting that I had used the incorrect spelling of stationary rather than stationery throughout this entry. If only I would have stuck to my original thought of using letterhead instead, I could have avoided this embarrassing incident. No doubt I’ll be hearing from the Center for Typewritten Communications and Typewriter Reclamation about this situation at some point. I just hope that they go easy on me.