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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was that paper clip design that conquered the office and consigned pins to their current home in the sewing basket.