With their lollipop colors, swelling lines and toylike ease of operation, they hark back to the sexy red plastic Valentine typewriter Sottsass designed for Olivetti in 1969.
Toronto-based startup Whirlscape believes that taking a keyboard originally designed for a typewriter, turning it digital and calling it a day is the wrong way to go about making the best possible smartphone text entry experience.
As a kid, he would stop by the neighborhood tag sales in his hometown of Perrysburg, Ohio, and buy up old gadgets like typewriters, "just so I could take them apart and admire how each part was designed for a specific function," he says.
That's why the folks at Astrohaus created the Freewrite, a distraction-free typewriter, and it's always why they are launching the Traveler, a laptop-like word processor that's designed for writing and nothing else.
The following models were produced by the British Oliver Typewriter Company between 1930 and 1942: Oliver typewriter designs were licensed for production in several countries.
The machine incorporated elements which became fundamental to typewriter design, including a cylindrical platen and a four-rowed QWERTY keyboard.
Work-related technologies, such as electric typewriters, are designed to make tasks easier.
Mr. Gorbaty designed ads for Crest toothpaste, Post cereals and I.B.M.'s then-groundbreaking Selectric typewriter, and also created covers for Time magazine, titles for Woody Allen films and illustrations for more than 85 children's books.
The version in use today appears to have been designed by Kenneth Wright for the Remington Rand typewriter.
When he designed the Valentine portable typewriter for Olivetti in 1969, with the British designer Perry King, he was able to turn a piece of office equipment into a desirable object by understanding that there are emotions involved as well as ergonomics in the way that we use and understand our possessions.
