Wirework is a centuries-old craft, but there are plenty of ways to give it a new “twist.” Using basic tools, you can shape wire into letter-shaped paper clips (imagine calligraphy that has sprung to ...

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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 ...

People have fastened sheets of paper together more or less permanently ever since the Chinese invented the stuff in the first or second century A.D. Yet according to the Early Office Museum, the first ...