Sure, paper clips end up floating around junk drawers and clutter desk tops, but they’re good for more than just organizing papers. These bendy wires can be quite handy in pinch — and they can make a ...

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

James Ward has an unusual attachment to paper clips. And when he sees one, he sees "a piece of art, but it's also a piece of useful art." And like any serious art appreciator, he is also a collector.

So Prada's version of this is actually a paper clip-shaped money clip, but that isn't stopping the Internet from joking about designer paper clips. Check out the post on X Check out the post on X ...

Your standard paperclip has a design so perfect and so simple that it seems inevitable–and obvious. It wasn’t. The Gem paperclip is actually the last clip standing in a war over paper clip design that ...

Is it possible to get excited about paper clips? Staples thinks so. The company has made the paper-clip-buying experience more interactive by offering many designer options and allowing customers to ...

In the patent literature, the term "prior art" is virtually synonymous with "state of the art," the standard against which any claimed improvement is necessarily judged. Normally, "state of the art" ...

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Earlier this week shoppers were left baffled after Balenciaga marketed a 'shopping bag' for $1114 (£871), but its seems this is not the only designer label to cause a stir. Italian design house Prada ...