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 ...

Recently all my e-mail messages arrive adorned with a paper-clip icon—the image that indicates a file has been attached. But usually there is no attachment. It’s kind of spooky. Am I being hacked? Is ...

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 ...