The Italian company’s dedication to design over pure functionalism extended beyond just its products into its brilliant graphics. Designed by Ettore Sottsass, Olivetti’s lipstick-red Valentine ...

The design aesthetic of the world’s most wanted laptops and smartphones is generally as slick as the products themselves. Even as the new Apple store design feels like an ostensible attempt to soften ...

Hemingway stood before his to hammer out tales of men and bulls who were noble and brave and doomed, EE Cummings used his to innovate and discombobulate, and now Cormac McCarthy is ending a ...

On view through Oct. 28, 2012, at the Denver Art Museum, "Olivetti: Innovation & Identity," a small exhibit tied to a larger show about modern design, examines how an Italian company making ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. On Friday, Christie’s will auction Cormac McCarthy’s battered blue ...

Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more — and nearly every one of them was tapped out on a portable ...

ROME—Like most obsessions, collecting typewriters started as a passing fancy when an old Olivetti Studio 44 sitting on a table at the Porta Portese flea market in central Rome caught my eye back in ...

The Italian town Ivrea was once a model for workers’ rights and progressive design. Now, it’s both a cautionary tale and evidence of a grand experiment in making labor humane. By Nikil Saval IN THE ...

At the end of four years of heavy losses, Underwood Corp., once the leader of the U.S. typewriter industry, needed help in a hurry. It came last fall from Italy’s progress-minded Olivetti company, ...

Love typewriters? So do we – and so do our readers. From childhood typing lessons to newsroom stories, here is a selection of our favourites Recently, Tom Hanks’s love for typewriters inspired us to ...

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