Research Catalog

Title

Olivetti identities : spaces and languages 1933-1983 / edited by Davide Fornari and Davide Turrini.

Publication

• Zürich : Triest Verlag GmbH, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fornari, Davide
• Turrini, Davide

Description

400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

Olivetti's world-famous typewriters best embody the company's industrial legacy and visible identity, which was both innovative and complex, material and immaterial. These identities are at the heart of an interdisciplinary research project carried out by ECAL/Ecole cantonale dàrt de Lausanne and the Università degli Studi di Ferrara in collaboration with the Association for the Historical Archives of Olivetti in Ivrea. This publication includes contributions from 36 authors. Olivetti Identities. Spaces and Languages 1933-1983 presents the results of this research with the aim of analyzing the Olivetti phenomenon as a whole, paying particular attention to the context of corporate evolution and the approaches of designers such as Xanti Schawinsky, Renato Zveteremich, Ettore Sottsass, Hans von Klier, Egidio Bonfante and Walter Ballmer, among others. The volume is organized in four sections dedicated to the design of showrooms and exhibition design at trade fairs and expos, the analysis of languages that have shaped corporate vocabulary as well as visual communication and interaction design, and cultural and promotional activities, respectively. A final section summarizes the credentials of designers Santiago Miranda and George Sowden, as well as former Olivetti collaborators in sales and training. Two visual essays featuring published and previously unpublished documents from the Olivetti historical archives complete the book.

Subject

• Ing. C. Olivetti & c. > History
• Electronic office machine industry > Italy > History
• Computer industry > Italy > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQE 22-694

ISBN

• 9783038630609
• 3038630608

OCLC

1252059639

Title

Olivetti identities : spaces and languages 1933-1983 / edited by Davide Fornari and Davide Turrini.

Publisher

Zürich : Triest Verlag GmbH, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Fornari, Davide, editor.

Turrini, Davide, editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 22-694