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 ...

A machine that once belonged to a Times journalist has been present during wars, natural disasters and more. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...