This Pen and Paper-clip hybrid is such a smart way of keeping your stationery and sheets together!

What if your pen was also a binder? Sounds like a weird question, but when you feast your eyes on The Clip-Pen, you’re bound to wonder why nobody thought of this yet! The Clip-Pen by Foxtail Gihawoo combines the traditional ballpoint pen with the even-more-traditional paper clip. The metal clip finds itself located on the pen-cap, where you’d normally see the cap’s pocket clip, creating a fusion that may seem weirdly clever at first, until weirdness wears right off and just feels like a good idea!

The Clip-Pen retains its original functionality (of being able to be clipped to a pocket), but is capable of much more. You could use it to keep your pen and papers together, or just use the cap to hold your sheets while the ballpoint pen sits in your pen-stand. Heck, you could even use it as a makeshift bookmark, or even stick googly eyes on it to make it look like Clippy has a ‘Pen Pal’! (Not my best joke, but then again, office humor isn’t my forté)

Just maybe don’t use it to pick locks, okay?

Designer: Gihawoo Design

This bunny-shaped scissor and paper-clip holder is ‘hoppy’ to help!

If you haven’t yet been introduced to Qualy’s style of products, you’re really in for a treat! The Thailand-based studio is responsible for some incredibly adorable, clever, and unique products that draw inspiration from nature, natural phenomena, or just the things you see around you. Qualy’s products are literally designed to delight, as forms cleverly balance function as well as emotion. The Desk Bunny is yet another incredibly apt example.

Meet the Desk Bunny. It isn’t a part of a magician’s prop collection but this bunny surely has a few tricks up its sleeve… and its ears! The looped ears are actually a pair of safety scissors that dock beautifully into the bunny’s body to protect kids from accidentally touching the blade. Whenever you need the scissors, pull the bunny’s ears upwards and the scissors un-dock, allowing you to safely use them. The Desk Bunny even happens to be holding onto a magnetic carrot with green paper-clips attached to it, serving as the carrot’s shoots. Pick the paper clips from their nicely organized cluster, or just remove the carrot and use it as a fridge magnet… it’s entirely up to you! Pretty enchanting, eh? That’s what you call a bunch of clever ideas tied beautifully together into a product that’s functional, playful, and safe for kids.

Designer: Qualy Design

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Do you ever wonder what paper clips looked like 150 years ago?

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If you do wonder what paper clips looked like in eras long gone by, Clip Art (clever wordplay alert?) is a wonderful history lesson in paper clip design. The series features ten different paper clips from 1860 to 1934, recreated from ancient patent records. While we’re pretty happy now in 2018 with the stapler, or the default paper clip (Clippy from Microsoft Office, if one remembers it), the Clip Art is a series worth collecting and admiring, especially for the way it captures how subtly different paper clips looked during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods (and possibly even how visual styles could be partially dictated by industrial production techniques). The Clip Art also comes with a Clip Chart, a paperback book that ‘charts’ the journey and the evolution of the humble paper clip that could easily be one of the most significantly important inventions in the age of the office.

Designer: Present & Correct

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The Paperclip 2.0

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We’ve ALL seen this Gif of a machine making paper clips, which forces me to ask one question. Did the paper clip’s design influence the construction of the dedicated machine? Or was it the other way around? Did the industry’s limitations result in the clip being shaped that way? And more importantly, why have we blindly been following this design for the past 150 years?? (BTW, interesting fact, but the paper-clip was patented in 1867, exactly 150 years ago)

Areaware thinks the old paper-clip design needs to be retired, much like Clippy, Microsoft’s annoyingly helpful Office Assistant. Their new series of paper-clips are made from spring steel and started off as simple line drawings which were later transformed into beautiful pieces of art that don’t just clip pieces of paper together, but rather decorate them, bringing just the right amount of design intervention to the mundane.

Designer: Daphna Laurens (Areaware)

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Spooky Stationery Sorter

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I never thought I’d say this, but this is a little ghost that eats up your spare thumbtacks. Sounds weird right? Until you see the product, it won’t make any sense, but once you do, you won’t stop admiring the simplicity and beauty of this design.

Little Ghost is a magnetic cup that attracts spare thumbtacks, safety pins, paper clips into its cavity. Having these small things strewn around your desk can be quite a nuisance. Not just visually, but also you’re never going to find one when you need it. That’s where your friendly little ghost comes in to be an absolute pal. Just run it over all the spare tacks and clips you have lying around. Everything gets magnetically sucked in and stays there. Just tip the ghost over and pull out a tack when you need it. It ain’t rocket science. Just sensible design!

Designer: Arthur Xin

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Star Trek Paper Clips Boldly Turn in Paperwork

I have a bit of an obsession with paper clips. I don’t collect them or anything, but after I am done using them to clip papers together, I often bend them and make little triangles out of them. Sometimes I even make earrings or nose rings with them as well. Don’t act as if you’ve never done the same. Despite them being already bent, I really like these Star Trek Paper Clips.

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They come in silver or gold and have Federation Delta Shield shaped clips and some that look like the USS Enterprise. I’d totally clip those shield ones to my ears and spend the day trying to do that Spock salute thing with my fingers.

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I’d never be able to bring myself to unwind these or actually use them. You get a mix of 40 different clips in this set and they come in a fancy tin with an Enterprise lid. You can get a set at ThinkGeek for $19.99(USD).

Snaptastic!

Can you see what’s missing from this modern clothespin? No metal spring! It’s called the Snapper and its genius lies in the POM nylon-related material and its unique die cast assembly method. Unlike primitive clothespins with two pins and a metal spring, the Snapper’s tensile rebound structure is created during the moulding process. This means manufacturing is completely automated with no need for human assembly!

Designer: Per Skovholt & Claus Molgaard

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Paperclip Headphones Let You Use Clippy with Your iPhone

One of the most annoying things about headphones is dealing with the excess cable as you move around. Many earbud makers have resolved this issue by putting a small clip on the cable, but the guys at Taiwan’s 25togo didn’t think that was sufficient, and they came up with their own solution.

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Paperclip headphones offer an oversize paper clip about along its cords, providing a solid and stable way to clip the excess cable to your pocket, t-shirt collar, or bag. It can also be used on the cover of a book – assuming you still read those. The clip also functions as a wrap for the headset cable when not in use.

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For now, you can only get the Paperclip headphones from 25togo’s store – which happens to be in Chinese. So good luck with all that.