The paperclip is always used as an example of great design. The paperclip is such an icon because since the creation of the standard paperclip the design has never changed. Why has it never changed? Because there hasn't been anything better created to temporarily hold a few sheets of paper together. Very few products can boast of that. To never have been changed for more than fifty years.
The paperclip has a elegance in its design that makes it transcend its simple purpose. Again, curves, the simple silver finish, no moving parts. Just a wire formed that very easily clasps the paper it is meant to hold. In this way the paperclip is almost romantic in its simplicity and elegance.
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