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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writing on a typewriter is a transient thing, like a short-lived but brightly burning and clamorous love affair. Once the thing is written, the paper is removed from the typewriter and the two things ...

A new episode of Mad Men or a rare airing of Murder, She Wrote isn’t the only time to stare longingly at a beautiful, sleek typewriter. There are 28 (sometimes 29) days every year dedicated to the ...