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Transparent Measuring Stickers

Transparent Measuring Stickers
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Toss together quick project sketches with these transparent sticky sheets which hold in place when you need them to. They won’t leave a residue or damage your drawings either. Each pack comes with 30 each of square, protractor, and ruler designs.

Sushi Tape

Sushi Tape
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Designed by Rosie Upright for SUCK UK, these whimsical rolls of paper washi tape look like rolls of delicious sushi. We don’t recommend dipping them in soy sauce or wasabi, but they’re a fun decoration and conversation piece. Sold in a set of four 10m rolls.

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Pilot Eno Mechanical Colored Pencils

Pilot Eno Mechanical Colored Pencils
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When black lead isn’t enough, these Pilot Color Eno pencils will add an erasable splash of color to your drawings, with the precision of a 0.7mm mechanical line. Sold as a set of eight colors, including non-photo blue. Additional colored lead refills available here.

Cubic Rubber Bands

Cubic Rubber Bands

Not only do Nendo’s cubic rubber bands just look plain cool, they’re easier to find in a drawer, and will never get tangled up with others. Sadly, they’re only available in Japan for now, and cost about 10 bucks for a pack of three.

Carbon Fiber Stapler

Carbon Fiber Stapler
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Should you decide to buy this fancy carbon fiber stapler, you’ll then understand why Milton in Office Space was so protective of his office supplies. And no, its shell doesn’t make it more aerodynamic than standard staplers.

Paperclip Sculptures

Paperclip Sculptures

Italian artist Pietro D’Angelo uses hundreds and hundreds of paperclips to create his amazing collection of figurative sculptures. They kind of make that paperclip necklace you put together at the office look just a tad inferior, don’t they?

Pinja Pushpins

Pinja Pushpins

There’s no better way to keep notes on your bulletin board in check than with a team of pint-size ninjas. These birch plywood pushpin ninjas are sold individually or in a limited-edition set of three. We want 100 climbing our wall.

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Desk Crates

Desk Crates
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These tiny wooden crates are perfect for organizing pens, pencils and other small desktop objects. Each one is made from actual pine and stamped with FRAGILE, so you can pretend to be a delivery driver and toss them around.

Roll-up Travel Whiteboard

Roll-up Travel Whiteboard

The Zipboard is an ingenious gadget which lets you carry a compact whiteboard in your backpack or suitcase. It unfurls to provide a self-standing, rigid dry-erase drawing surface, and even has a hidden marker compartment.

Skull Tidy

Skull Tidy
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Fill your head with all sorts of miscellaneous junk – or at least this desk caddy, made to look like like a human skull, and perfect for holding everything from phones and keys to sunglasses and candy.

Eco DIY Collection

Eco DIY Collection

Designed by Eduardo Alessi for area+, these whimsical desktop accessories are each made from a single sheet of die-cut cardboard and made to look like animals. Coming to retailers soon.

Stab-Resistant Prison Pens

Stab-Resistant Prison Pens

If you’re reading this, you’re probably not currently locked up, but if you find yourself incarcerated, these bendy pens are designed to let you write, but not turn them into deadly shivs.

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Medieval Weapon Pushpins

Medieval Weapon Pushpins

Tell them you mean business with these tiny medieval weapons, designed to hold your papers in place. Most effective when you prick your finger with one and let some blood drip on the paper.

Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener

Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener
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Pinocchio, the little wooden boy with truth issues turns your pencil into a lie-detecting proboscis as he sharpens it to a fine point. Makes less sense without a pencil shoved into it, though.

Tiny Police & Crime Scene Tape

Tiny Police & Crime Scene Tape
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Point out badly written documents, dirty rooms, spoiled food, or add intrigue to any surface with the Tiny Police Line and Tiny Crime Scene vinyl tapes from UK-based Ain’t Rocket Science.

Mini Cargo Crates

Mini Cargo Crates
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From the makers of the pallet coasters comes another miniaturized industrial staple. The Inbox mini cargo crates look exactly the same as their life-sized counterparts and are just as useful too.

Slice Box Cutter

Slice Box Cutter
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If you frequently cut open boxes, the Slice Box Cutter is a god-send. With a durable ceramic blade and a non-slip grip that wraps around your hand, it’ll rip through cardboard and tape like nothing.

Animal Staple Removers

Animal Staple Removers
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Jac Zagoory’s pewter desk accessories help you live out those cubicle fantasies where your staple remover is some sort of dangerous animal with big pointy teeth. It’s the only thing we use ours for.

Desktop Cargo Containers

Desktop Cargo Containers
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Daniel Ballou designed these ceramic desktop containers, modeled after the giant corrugated metal shipping containers he witnesses every day on the docks of Long Beach. Ships 8/2011.

Get the Hint Stickies

Get the Hint Stickies
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(NSFW: Language) Next time you need to get the point across at work, replace those little Post-its with these stickies which are just a little more direct than “Sign This” or “For Your Approval”.

Scotch Tape Sculptures

Scotch Tape Sculptures

Some terrific creativity was found at the Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest. The second annual contest challenged artists of every level to create original sculptures using just packaging tape.

Kuru Toga Self-Sharpening Pencil

Kuru Toga Self-Sharpening Pencil

A mechanical pencil with gears inside that rotate the lead to maintain a sharp tip. It doesn’t quite trump our favorite writing instrument, but props for making a pencil commercial seem exciting.

The Stampler

The Stampler
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Next time your boss demands copies of that TPS report ASAP, express your apathy by stampling them all together with the latest in stapler-rubber-stamp technology. Take that, evil boss!

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