Valentine Notebook Beautiful Form No Function
Friday, September 18th, 2009
On the left, the beautiful Olivetti Valentine, a portable typewriter from 1969. On the right, a modern-day re-imagining of the portable typewrite as laptop.
Some of the carry-over features look genuinely useful, even today: The carrying handle on the back and the slide-out keyboard for instance. Other design cues from the original are cute, like the cooling slots which fan out and look like the spokes of the typewriter’s hammers.
And still others… Read More