Hasta La Gadget!

Is it possible to build a better Post-It note? One look at Jun Inokuma and Yuri Naruse’s house-shaped block of sticky-notes says yes.

The house shape is no coincidence – Inokuma and Naruse are architects – but it is also something of a by=product of the shape of the stickers themselves. Imagine slicing a house-shaped loaf of bread. Now imagine the slices are paper, and that you are somehow way better at slicing a paper loaf than a bead one. Now, if you still can, imagine the little house-shaped notes. Have I lost you? Here’s a picture:

As you can see, the notes, named IE-TAGs, have everything that a Post-It has, along with a handy roof-shaped tab to mark a page in a book.

There’s another reason for the house-shape. The notes are made from wood taken from the construction waste of real houses, recycled into paper. The notes only exist as a concept right now, but the fact that the design has been trademarked offers hope that we will be able to neaten-up our notebooks in the near future.

IE-TAGs [Narakuma via Core77]

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