It’s the unsung hero of the modern lunch, the container from which countless school children have drawn nourishment and Twinkies over the years. Now, suddenly, the humble brown paper bag is at the ...

And other celebrations of women in design, in MoMA’s current exhibit, Designing Modern Women, 1890-1990. Take that, patriarchy! Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Saul Bass, Dieter Rams, Jony Ive. It ...

Beautifully simple and simply beautiful, this unprecedented archive of paper bags, collected by Tim Sumner and published as a zine, offers a peek into design trends of bygone eras Around a decade ago, ...

Back in July of 2016, Apple filed a patent for a paper bag – here in May of 2017, Apple has been granted that patent. Invented by an impressive 22 people and filed for a term of 15 years, Apple now ...

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