The current system promises to lift your pictures, your schedule, your notes, your music, into a digital “cloud” you need a password to access. But there are still techniques, devices and machines that create artifacts, viewable at any time. Recording, writing, imaging and organizing are still rewarding activities when pursued using materials and machines perfected decades ago and still serviceable today.

This way of working isn't high-tech. Or low tech. It's MIDTEK. At this seasonal micro-shop, you'll find manual typewriters, Impossible Project Film for Polaroid Cameras, fountain pens, Filofax organiers, notebooks, black and white film, and other items central to 21st-Century analog living. Our new items are chosen for ease of use, and when possible, place of manufacture. Our vintage items are only sold in functional condition.