IanPost-it Notes
January 5th 2011 02:48
As reported on Newsweek, this year the humble post-it note turns 30.
Below we take a look at the product's history, and its cultural influence.
Read the full article here.
Call it a marriage of science and divine inspiration. Spencer Silver was working at 3M laboratories in 1970 when he created an adhesive that would stick, but was also easily removable. Nobody at 3M knew what to make of it, but Silver didn't chuck the idea. Four years later, during a Sunday choir practice, Arthur Fry (left), who also worked at 3M, used it to keep his place in his church hymnal. It worked, and Fry made samples to pass around the office. It took another five years to perfect the product, but in 1980 Post-it notes were introduced nationwide. Here, Fry sits with his Post-its and other 3M products in 1980.
In Verona, Italy, there is a famed house called the Juliet House. The characters from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, while fictional, inspired the creation of the space for tourists to check out when in Verona. But tourists took an extra step and started leaving sticky love notes on the balcony where Juliet supposedly looked down on Romeo (shown here). The notes got to be too much (and too messy) and were taken down in 2008.
When a tornado hit Pilot Grove, Texas, in 2006, one local family had most of the walls and roof ripped off their home. Much to the surprise of everyone, what remained were adhesive notes on the family's refrigerator.
For its 30th anniversary in August 2010, the Post-it brand teamed up with the nonprofit organization Publicolor to create the world's largest billboard made of Post-it notes and an accompanying student art exhibition in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall. The artwork focused on the aspirations and dreams of kids across the country and took more than 100,000 Post-it notes to build.
Below we take a look at the product's history, and its cultural influence.
Read the full article here.
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