Doane Paper: Version 2.0

Okay. This is hard to swallow, but there once was a time when the words “peanut butter” and “jelly” didn’t really sound right together. And, as much as the thought of a PB+J-less life makes us all feel like withering up into little human-raisins, we must realize that at one point there were nuts, and there were berries, and mashing them together would have made us look like huge weirdos.

Good thing some people just don’t care if they look crazy, because if not for them I would be malnourished. Additionally, the world would be missing Doane Paper Version 2.0, an item that is entirely inedible but in all other aspects a similar example of mix-mashed goodness. Chad Doane was in a product design meeting, and noticed about half the room was using legal pads while the other half used grid notebooks. Doane, torn over which side he identified most strongly with, decided to squash the two together, resulting in a patent pending stationery design that incorporates grid and ruled lines onto a single sheet (eureka!). Then, Doane was sort of like, “I could sell this!”… and then he was all, “I COULD PUT THIS ON MY SITE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!”

That Chad Doane is a smart man. Now if he could just figure out a way for me to eat this paper…