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Giovanni Pintori per Olivetti, 1962

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Olivetti Elea 9003

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Gui Bonsiepe ft. Max Bill

Studio Boggeri: Brochure for the typewriter M40 by Olivetti (1934)

Lorenzo Mattotti: ILLUSTRATIONS

In my recent studies I stumbled upon Tomás Maldonado, an artist whose work I was not familiar with before. But it's like I found a design ancestor, because I totally use similar shapes as him and I have even applied his theories unknowingly. Maldonado was born in Buenos Aires in 1922, but he studie

In an Industrial Technical High School in Tuscany, the last working example of the first computer produced by Olivetti with which Ettore Sottsass won his first Compasso d’Oro in 1959.

Hows that for buttons?

Elea 9003 (Macchina 1T) è uno dei modelli di calcolatori mainframe ad altissime prestazioni sviluppati dall'Olivetti facenti parte della famiglia Olivetti Elea. Si tratta del primo computer a transistor commerciale prodotto in Italia e uno dei primi completamente transistorizzati del mondo[1]. Fu concepito, progettato e sviluppato tra il 1957 e il 1959 da un piccolo gruppo di giovani ricercatori guidati da Mario Tchou[2]. L'acronimo ELEA sta per ELaboratore Elettronico Aritmetico...

The Olivetti Elea 9003, the first fully transistorized commercial computer.

The Italian manufacturer Olivetti was known for its industrial products and also for its advertising posters. Ballmer designed the installation of the Stile Olivetti exhibition, and he excelled in designing logos and graphics for Olivetti’s corporate identity. Extreme minimalism was characteristic of Ballmer’s work. This design is dominated by a large white O for Olivetti, which stands out against a bold orange-red background and balances the blocks of simple Helvetica type.