Things organized neatly

One of my oldest sources of visual inspiration on the internet (and one of a handful of early art/design blogs that inspired me to start Colossal in 2010) was Things Organized Neatly, an exhaustive catalogue of objects compulsively organized just so. From toy collections, to artworks and editorial photography, the site collects thousands of images of neatly arranged things that have a near Zen-like impact on your brain as you scroll through the site. More

These are a few of my Instagram collections of things organized neatly and colours organised neatly. I have shown some of these as little pictures in my monthly mosaics but I thought It would be nice to put a few of my favourites together in one post. I love making these, there's something quite satisfying about putting things together in neat lines or in rainbow order! I thought I might make this a monthly series next year too - to share my little collections of neatness here as well as on…

Order vs Chaos

newsweek: Shades of Toast.

The collecting of anonymous objects — and the subsequent use of those objects in creating a perfectly styled interior — has become such a staple of modern life that it’s hard to remember a time when not everyone loaded up their vans twice a year at places like Brimfield. But Franco Clivio, a former industrial designer and a lecturer at Zurich’s Schule für Gestaltung, has been amassing such objects for more than four decades. His collection — which numbers into the thousands — is on view…

If you like "things organized neatly" photos of camera gear, check this one out -- it includes the photographer himself. This photo shows John Bozinov's

See sample pages from this book at Wink. Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday by Austin Radcliffe Universe 2016, 104 pages, 7.8 x 10 x 0.8 inches…

If you're a neat freak—and I'm convinced almost everybody has a little bit of neat freak inside them—then Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging

GE Garage poster