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 ...

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 ...

It's a sign of the times: a company originally known for typewriters, and struggling to find its place in a tech-driven market, turns to manufacturing tablets. This week, Olivetti announced 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, ...

Their clickety-clacks once filled steno pools around the city, a kind of reassuring elevator music for generations of office workers. Today, in most places where paper is still shuffled, the noisy ...

The Olivetti Studio 44 that resides next to some friendly bobbleheads in Mitch Teich's office. Our Bubbler Talk question this week is one after my own heart. Tim Brever in Oak Creek wrote to Bubbler ...

It was 4 p.m. on a Thursday, two hours until the end of Jesse Banuelos’ workday. He was standing behind the front counter of Berkeley Typewriter, his trademark green apron tied around his waist. A ...