Common office supplies, while they can seem indispensable, don't remain the same forever. It would be no easy task to find a typewriter sitting on someone's desk today. I doubt there is one in The New York Times building. Telex machines are gone, as are the hot-glue rollers that the designers used for paste-up. The telephone, once in constant use, now sits largely forgotten on most desks (just about everyone prefers e-mail). But some nondigital office items remain. Post-it notes, which were invented in the late '70s and were once described as the "solution without a problem," are now in constant use. Rare is the computer screen that doesn't have a couple stuck along its edges. Other items, like scissors, have been around for centuries. The rubber band was patented in 1845. The modern staple and staple remover came along in the 1930s. In this second installment of the "Office Romance" series on the 6th Floor Blog, I look for beauty in these objects.
The grease pencil, once used constantly to mark up photography contact sheets — one of my favorite things to do — now lies idle. The optimist in me keeps one in my cup, in case a photographer hands in a stack of sheets for me to edit. Designers used X-acto knives daily when they did layouts by cutting and pasting. The X-actos are now used merely to trim the paper on which the layouts are printed for presentation after having been designed on a computer.
These pictures were all photographed on my desk or the table alongside it. The office supplies may be ordinary, but the light coming in the windows on the east side of the building, first thing in the morning, is not.
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