They Really Did Invent Post-Its

In today’s Design Notebook in the NY Times, Penelope Green gives us a lesson in those sweet little sticky squares that surround us. In case you needed to be reminded, Post-its are quite simply a miracle of paper and glue. Headshot hottie Paola Antonelli even gets a shout out for including them in her Humble Masterpieces show at MoMA: “Hypertext on a refrigerator door,” Ms. Antonelli wrote, “the Post-it shook the world.”

The news hook is that Post-its will be starring in a “home collection,” with colors more suited to non-cubicle correspondence, so the article talks to regular folk about all the ways they use them.

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