![]() ![]() Every year, he hosts The Boring Conference, "a one-day celebration of the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked-subjects often considered trivial and pointless, but when examined more closely reveal themselves to be deeply fascinating." And this year, he's also written a collection of essays on the invention of various office items, published in a book called The Perfection of the Paper Clip, out Tuesday in the U.S. But Ward is a fan of the things that seem dull to others. Plus, today's workspace centers on screens-on laptops and desktops and tablets and smartphones-that do said office supplies' work. It's easy to see why Ward hadn't expected the turnout: Office supplies, frankly, make for a boring conversation topic. I was just like, 'I don't know what this is.'" "Every object has the potential to change your life." "Eventually, we took over the whole pub, and there was just one table left of normal people. ![]() I kind of thought this could just be me sitting in a pub holding a pen on my own," he said. "I had no idea if anyone was going to come. He wrote a blog post, asked people to join him in a London pub, and then waited. Once a month, they would use the hashtag #stationeryclub, asking other Twitter users to join in their appreciation of common objects.īut in early 2010, Ward had the idea to host the club in person, like a book club, except about pens and paper clips and Post-it notes. In late 2009, the London-based blogger James Ward and the artist Ed Ross began a movement to celebrate "stationery"-the term for office supplies, basically, in the U.K.-that they called the Stationery Club. ![]()
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