What is a typainter? The word is a mashup of typist and painter, so if you figured that it was someone who paints with a typewriter, you guessed right. It seems that Singapore has only one typainter – and he was spotted recently at Tiong Bahru typainting the estate.

SGalf describes his encounter with Ricky, the Typainter:

It was a very fruitful conversation and I was happy to that I open my mouth to speak to him.

Ricky is very willingly to share and is very sincere about it.

Ricky told me he pioneered typewriter art since 1973 and even won a national art award in 1975. (He has a lot more awards after that and has a folder to show you if you talk to him)

How he discovered his talent was purely out of a curious mind and probably some itchy fingers (sorry, just got to add this part in).

He is the number 6th child in his family and after his 4th brother was done with the typewriter for his studies, Ricky starting toying around with the typewriter and discovered a whole new possibilities for it.

You can read more about Ricky the Typainter here.