{"id":58,"date":"2010-07-26T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-07-26T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T22:50:39","slug":"the-art-of-clutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2010\/07\/26\/the-art-of-clutter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Clutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, my desk is incredibly messy.\u00a0 I admit it.\u00a0 There\u2019s piles of paper, books, various office supplies taking up the space that should, ideally, be completely free.\u00a0 In a perfect world, I\u2019d have a clear desk, an empty inbox, and hours to spare.\u00a0 In this world, though, I have a messy desk.\u00a0 But, the great thing about a messy desk is knowing that people just like me are able to take their inspiration from the clutter in their lives.\u00a0 Take the paperclip.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got about a thousand of them fighting for space on my desk at any given moment, but from the paperclip, comes the idea for <a href=\"http:\/\/readymade.com\/blogs\/design\/2010\/06\/02\/paperclip-love\/\">this<\/a>&#8211; a beautiful, functional object.\u00a0 That\u2019s the beauty of inspiration- never knowing quite where it\u2019s going to come from.\u00a0 It could be the shape, the curve of an everyday object, or reimagining the idea of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilesmiller.com\/products.html\">waste<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 And that, quite simply, makes me a little less anxious about the mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, my desk is incredibly messy.\u00a0 I admit it.\u00a0 There\u2019s piles of paper, books, various office supplies taking up the space that should, ideally, be completely free.\u00a0 In a perfect world, I\u2019d have a clear desk, an empty inbox, and hours to spare.\u00a0 In this world, though, I have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}