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 ...

I love being able to repurpose things I have lying around the house, and my collection of paper clips just got a bunch of new assignments after I learned about all these great ways to use them. When ...

Paper clips come in all shapes and sizes. I have a collection of the ordinary ones: metal and plastic covered colored ones along with others that I use for keeping things in orderly fashion. So this ...

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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 ...

We've been using paper clips for over a century to hold our documents together. But who came up with this useful little idea? And why did the paper clip inspire a World War Two resistance movement?

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 ...