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 ...

Paper clips are compressed and forged into a dense billet through repeated heating and pressure. Thin, inconsistent steel ...

Zara Home makes some very nice goods for the home and the office, including these ingenious jumbo paper clips that can hold a pen or pencil. But I balked at the price tag — $12 for two pieces of bent ...

In late 2009, the London-based blogger James Ward and the artist Ed Ross began a movement to celebrate "stationery"—the term for office supplies, basically, in the U.K.—that they called the Stationery ...

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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" ...

The paper clip plays a variety of roles, all small, in legal history. That smallness looms large in Jay W Stein's gripping study Something Little and Shiny on the Judicial Stage: The Paper Clip. The ...