Honest character and chiselled good looks were hallmarks of many of the early Elmo pens used in offices and classrooms across Italy in the 1920s. But the inventiveness of the company’s first technical director provided a design that would stand...

Honest character and chiselled good looks were hallmarks of many of the early Elmo pens used in offices and classrooms across Italy in the 1920s. Here, an archive design by factory co-founder, Heinrich ‘Elmo’ Helm, provides the blueprint for a...