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 ...

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 ...

When I was a child I would often fall asleep to the sound of metal typebars hammering on paper. The clack clack clack of words in motion. A cacophony of heavy blows and jabs that ricocheted from wall ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...