The Desk

Having spent some time modelling the Hermes Baby typewriter and presenting it with a minimal colour palette, the next phase was to repurpose the asset within a new, more realistic scene. If you’ve landed here first, you might be interested in looking at the original project over here.

The typewriter is the hero of the scene, but the addition of a number of props helps to add more life and texture to the composition. The desk should ideally look like it is used by someone, and give some further clues to a potential story or narrative. Who is this person and what do they do? What would they be writing about?

The props I’d created for the scene were chosen to help set the scene at some point in the past. The time period is fairly non-specific, but generally spans from the 40s to the mid 90s. The typewriter represents the earliest product, from around the early 40s, whilst a small scribble of Kate Libby’s phone number from the movie Hackers (1995) gives the latest date in the scene.

I also used this project as an opportunity to revive another asset from my Retro Tech collection; the Panasonic RC-6015, representing the mid 80s. The clock is a reference to Back to the Future, which is also echoed by a Rolodex card with Dr. Emmett Brown’s phone number on it.

See the project on Blender Artists