TypeR Foundation
San Francisco nonprofit for repair, analog tools, and teaching that leaves grease on the paper.
Bay Area Experience
Classrooms, community rooms, summer programs, kitchen tables, courtyards. If there is a sturdy surface and a curious room, TypeR can set up.
The community already knows how to keep old systems alive: bookstores, bike shops, print shops, music repair. We sit in that lineage.
Edward Pollard
Founder of TypeR Foundation. Repairer, English teacher, and a collector of machines that still have work in them.
a typewriter only needs a flat, sturdy, clean surface in a place where the writer can sit in peace and focus.
the first Meet A Typer event featured 7 portable machines in an empty game room in a North Beach bar & restaurant called Kennedy's.
tell the world what matters
do it on paper, by hand
with a writing instrument
so that others may read
what you have to say
The afternoon shop class.
A half-day workshop: how a typewriter thinks, how to type on one without fighting it, and how to do the first honest repairs. Popular with schools, curious adults, and people who want a date that is not a screen.
If the room needs a talk instead, or a collector wants the longer bench, those sittings live on the bookings page.
Fix it. Teach it. Pass it on.
- If it can be opened, it can be understood.
- Analog tools are cultural infrastructure, not décor.
- Repair is a right. So is learning how.
- Old keyboards and tired machines still have a next use.
