The ad from a 1971 issue of Life magazine was brought to our attention by Dave’s Mechanical Pencils, a blog primarily about – believe it or not – mechanical pencils. Having got people on the moon, with the advent of mechanical pencils into mainstream society, civilisation must have really imagined it was going places. […]
Stephanie Butler from food blog Eat Me Daily is charting the “natural history of the kitchen”, each week tracing the background of a cooking appliance. A few weeks ago she featured the microwave whose origins date to the 1940s. The 1947 Radarange was six feet tall, weighed three-quarters of a ton, and needed its own […]
“The biggest challenge, especially for our toilet-Paper products, is perceived softness,” says Martin Wolf, director of product and environmental technology at Seventh Generation. The best recycled toilet Paper is made using the long fibres that good office Paper retains. However, a high demand for waste Paper from China in particular but also the growth of […]
If you haven’t seen them already, Flexible Love chairs employ a durable but very flexible structure that opens out to a range of seating shapes. From the corporate blurb: “FlexibleLove™ furniture incorporates an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure to create durable furniture pieces produced from widely-available recycled materials. FlexibleLove furniture, such as FlexibleLove Earth 16, are […]
Staples and ring binders pierce the eyes of zombies, opening a card blows the brains out of a zombie’s head. 13th Street, the European action and suspense TV channel, has been employing some gory stationery for its corporate correspondence.. CREDITS: Client: NBC UNIVERSAL Global Networks Deutschland GmbH Agency: Jung von Matt AG, Germany Creative […]
Nebraska police are trailing a man who held up a convenient store with his head wrapped in toilet Paper to conceal his identity. The robber wielded a knife to get shop staff to hand over cash from a safe. The man fled on foot. The robber was caught on CCTV but police have so […]
We sell stationery not propaganda. It’s not our place to provide opinion or even offer any election analysis, but here are some interesting contests to look out for if you’re watching some of the results on telly The constituencies of Ealing Central and Acton, Watford and Filton and Bradley Stoke are three-way marginals, with Conservatives, […]
Librarians in the New York Society Library, the city’s oldest, have discovered that two books George Washington took out in 1789 have still not been returned. Adjusting for inflation, this means that the dead president owes some $300,000 in library fines. On 5 October 1789, Washington borrowed Emmerich de Vattel’s Law of Nations, a […]
A Polish burglar obviated the need for breaking and entering properties he intended to rob by sending himself in big parcels addressed to the premises. Once installed in the property he would wait ‘til nightfall, get out of his box and fill his swag bag with goodies. In order to secret himself out again, […]
If you like your light filtered through a mass of writhing, suffering bodies, then look no further than the “Fall of the Damned” pendant lamp by Luc Merx. The lampshade is a knotted mass of suspended bodies whose hellish torment is accentuated if you use a red light bulb. Art has a great tradition of […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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