Things Organized Neatly

Submission 9,283

About

Things Organized Neatly is a single topic blog that curates a series of user-submitted and artists' photographs in which an assortment of everyday objects are meticulously arranged in a visually satisfying display, with focus on elements of design, composition and symmetry.

Origin

The Tumblr blog was launched by Indianapolis-based designer and photographer Austin Radcliffe on April 3rd, 2010. According to Radcliffe, he began the photo blog as a way to satisfy his own penchant for the art of object arrangement, as well as to curate other artists' illustrations and photographs that exemplify visual organization and symmetrical composition.

Spread

By mid-April 2010, Radcliffe's photo blog project had drawn 150 new followers in the short span of a week. Sometime in late July to early August that same year, Things Organized Neatly began to gain viral momentum on the microblogging network, with an image of a neatly arranged pencil carvings racking up more than 1,000 notes after it was posted on August 1st, 2010 (shown below). Over the course of the next five years, the Tumblr blog's online presence grew exponentially with an estimated subscription base of more than 300,000 followers.

Accolades

In January 2012, TIME Magazine^[3] highlighted the blog as "a perfectionist’s dream Tumblr" in its list of 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs. In October 2015, Things Organized Neatly received the honor of the People's Choice Webby Award in the Personal Blog/Website category.^[8]

Examples

Book Adaptation

In mid-2015, Radcliffe announced that a select compilation of images from his blog will be published as a photography art book titled Things Organized Neatly: The Art of Arranging the Everyday, which is slated for release on March 1st, 2016.