An Italian artist has created spectacular sculptures using paperclips. Pietro D’Angelo has fashioned elaborate life-sized sculptures of a man in a bowler hat smoking a pipe, a boy carrying a rose and a woman on a swing. Each statue is made from up to 12,000 stainless steel paper clips, and some are more than six […]
A business card made of meat There’s no excuse for dull and boring business cards – think about your company and what it does, then find a creative card design that says it all. You want your card to be memorable – so forget the bog-standard version and be a bit artistic, even three-dimensional, in […]
Probably the shortest story ever written was allegedly by Ernest Hemingway and read: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”. Brevity in prose has now found its niche with the rise of a new literary genre – flash fiction. The name was first used back in the 90s as the title to an anthology of very […]
Data entry is not for the faint-hearted. If you have ever been unfortunate enough to have faced any sizable amount of information to be uploaded onto a database you will understand that, after a while, it starts to take its toll. The mind yearns for a new challenge, a breath of fresh air, anything – […]
Jared Fanning has designed an infographic showing the most read books in the last 50 years – that is, if reading correlates with sales. The numbers represent the quantity printed and then sold, rather than print figures alone. Not surprisingly, The Bible comes first, with 3,900,000 copies sold in the last 50 years. (But read?). […]
Treading the noticeboards: (from left to right) George Harris, Max Trotter Landry, Brian Blessed and Jim Brown Paperstone picked up its sixth ever award last night at the prestigious BOSS awards, the office supplies industry accolades. Jim went on stage to collect the E-Tailer of the Year award from no other than actor Brian Blessed. […]
The prices of original paintings by Shanti are expected to go up in value after it emerged the Czech artist has lost interest in art. Shanti, a female Asian elephant resident at Prague Zoo, had been an enthusiastic practitioner of painting after being introduced to it by her keeper Veronika Struplova Veronika taught her how […]
A perfume has been launched that makes wearers smell like “freshly printed books.” Paper Passion is a fragrance by Geza Schoen in association with publisher Gerhard Steidl and iconic design mag WallPaper*. Karl Lagerfeld and Steidl provide packaging. “The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world,” says Karl Lagerfeld. […]
Early cuneiform, ca. 3000 BC Office supplies are humdrum. Objects around the office seem to subsist on a mundane plane of existence, interrupting our consciousness only when they are required for some necessary but fundamentally dull task. Scribbling on a Post-it Note, loading Paper into your printer, buying a multipack of biros – what could […]
Ani K, an art teacher in a school in Kerala, was inspired after he read a story about a painter who only used his foot. “I’m always trying to do something different,” he says. “At first I tried to paint with my nose – but I noticed that other people were doing it. So I […]
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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