29 May is National Paper Clip Day and if you have just rolled your eyes at the idea of a bent little piece of metal having its own holiday, you need to keep reading. Have you ever worked in an office?

Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on ...

James Ward has an unusual attachment to paper clips. And when he sees one, he sees "a piece of art, but it's also a piece of useful art." And like any serious art appreciator, he is also a collector.

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

Kyle MacDonald is on the verge of successfully completing a project that on its surface sounds nothing less than absurd: Trading--with the help of a blog--a single red paper clip for a house. Since ...

Have you ever thought about the power of a paper clip? If you could convert the mass of a paper clip entirely to energy, how big a punch would it pack? Einstein's most famous equation, E = mc 2, ...

ABC News tried to swap a paper clip for bigger and better things at the RNC. — -- With a red paper clip in hand, ABC News attended the Republican National Convention this week. The goal was to ...