Sometime in the mid-1960s, an architect in Milan picked up the telephone and described a lamp. He sent no drawing. Ten days later the finished lamp arrived at his studio. Vico Magistretti...
In 1954, Olivetti bolted a typewriter to a sidewalk on Fifth Avenue and hung a twenty-three-meter sculpture on the wall behind it. This is how an Italian company that treated the way...
Otl Aicher created the visual language that the world now reads without thinking. The small stick figure on every airport bathroom door. The pictograms that direct travelers to the stairs, the telephone,...