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 ...

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 ...

A boy’s mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared. By Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, the actor, producer, director and typewriter enthusiast, is also the author of the ...

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 ...

In Allie Millington’s debut middle grade novel, Olivetti, a long-forgotten typewriter, by some mysterious force, begins to communicate with a 12-year-old boy as he searches for his missing mother.