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The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti. Olivetti opened its first overseas manufacturing plant in 1930, and its Divisumma electric calculator was launched in 1948. Olivetti produced Italy´s first electronic computer, the transistorised Elea 9003, in 1959, and purchased the Underwood Typewriter Company that year. In 1964 the company sold its electronics division to the American company General Electric. It continued to develop new computing products on its own; one of these was Programma 101, the first commercially-produced personal computer.
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Design
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Whiskey Bay Press Merc
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Bookcover mockup
book cover design idea
Alpina
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SCARABOOK
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Generative Alphabet
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Cognition
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MG Font
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Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...
Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019
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VAW
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Pieter Bruegel
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Typography
Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.
Digital Biology
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Podchain
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