A paper clip, of course. But like many feats of engineering, reducing the paperclip to such a simple design was deceptively tricky. The United Kingdom's Gem Manufacturing Company had to ensure the ...

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 ...

When you think of paper clips, you immediately think of a specific form—the familiar round-ended, double-loop design. The wire trombone shape. But that’s only one variety of clip; the “Gem ...

He showed correspondent Suysan Spencer variations from his collection of tens of thousands of paper clips, from the classic design … to "owl" paper clips … to cross-over clips. The London ...

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 ...

Now that you have all these fun paper clips, why keep them in a boring container? The Internet has every novelty holder you could ever want—even the kitchen sink. This fun design has a magnet ...

“When we looked at redesigning the paper clip, we thought ... working on an emojis refresh for the past year, choosing 3D designs over 2D and opting to animate the majority of them.