Mitchell Alan Parker is the editor of Austin HOME magazine. When he's not writing about modern houses, he's dreaming of owning one with his wife and nine-month-old son. He also collects early 20th century typewriters. At least that's what he likes to tell people.

Ettore Sottsass was born in Austria in 1917, though in the late 1920s he moved to Italy with his family (his father was the prominent Italian architect Ettore Sottsass, Sr). He set up his first studio in Milan before traveling to New York in the 1950s, where he worked in the office of from 1956 to 1957. A future-minded designer, Sottsass worked closely with Olivetti designing the Elea 9003 (the first Italian calculator) in 1959 and the company's first electronic typewriter, the Tekne, a few years later. He passed away in 2007 at the age of 90, after resurged interest in his work led to exhibitions at the and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

I am Emily. I am an employee at VIP Sage currently working in Sydney, Australia. I am from Albury and I did my education over there itself. I love beautiful things, love to have fun in the moment and am always dreaming bigger! Friends and family are super important to me. I am chirpy, fun and I like spontaneity and good grammar. I love to write...I mean really really love to write and barely go a day without doing it in some way...I am a very passionate person and so often am too full on for some people. I am fascinated with human interaction and computer mediated communication and why people do the things they do. I collect typewriters, enjoy philosophical conversations and star gazing. I have a tendency of sometimes being quite negative, this is something I am working on slowly, I try to accept people in spite of the things that I dislike about them as I'm sure they do for me for which I am deeply grateful. I have a lust for all things great in this world, great food, great friends and great adventures. I am spontaneous, social, and adorable.

Part of the raft of Harvard-trained mid-century American designers, Eliot Noyes (1910-1977) is most notable for his work in corporate America. His clients included IBM, Mobil Oil and institutions like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and if any one person can be said to have laid the groundwork for American corporations's adoption of the International Style, it's Noyes. A member of the Harvard Five, Harvard-educated architects and designers who lived and worked in New Canaan, Connecticut like Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson and others, Noyes was an early champion of the work of Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen. One of his biggest projects was the IBM Selectric typewriter, and worked designing buildings for IBM, advising the company on design and work-flow and engaging architects like Saarinen, Breuer, and Mies Van der Rohe do design their buildings around the world.