Knolling is a style of photography where objects are neatly arranged (usually on a flat surface) and captured from a 90-degree angle. The end result is a visually satisfying composition that provides a sense of order and harmony.
The craft is commonly associated with design and creative communities, but there's one on Reddit that stands out for its diverse gallery.
Created back in 2013, it now has 96,000 members, who have shared plenty of interesting pictures of food, tools, Legos, and pretty much everything else you can imagine, reminding everyone that things are still within our control. At least, mostly.
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Contents Of A Croatian Firetruck
I remember this challenge, someone started it on social network, next thing you know, first responders all around the world were taking pictures like this. Oh and this is from my city 🥰🥰
'Phew! Well, it took us eleven hours to set up, but it was worth it. OK, guys, positions please for the shoot' [bringg bringg]. 'Um, Captain, it's a code red...' 'Oh s**t! [in Croatian]'
O, sranje! [See it doesn't get censored in Croatian] 😁
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Despite its popularity, the origins of knolling are quite young. The word is believed to have been coined in 1987 by Andrew Kromelow, who, at the time, was a janitor in Frank Gehry’s Santa Monica studio.
Gehry himself was working on furniture designs for Knoll, the US furniture manufacturer whose reputation was founded on the boxy, modernist designs of Florence Knoll.
Perhaps in a gesture of respect to Knoll’s angular designs, or as the result of an obsessive impulse, Kromelow set out to organize the tools that weren't being used at the studio and laid them out at the right angles to each other and to the edges of the work surfaces.
Saw This On Another Sub, Thought You Guys Would Enjoy This. Or Is This Not Really Knolling?
There's something a little fruity about this picture.
Scientifically, lovely. But ecologically, each one below the last two are sort of useless to nature now (apart from becoming compost).
This Is What I Use To Shoot Wildlife
Legit freaked out when I read the title and saw a snip of the background
Flash is definitely used in some wildlife photography. https://www.naturettl.com/a-guide-to-using-flash-with-wildlife/
Load More Replies...Geometrically Cut Chocolate
I find it awe-inspiring the amount of time this must have taken, but the combination of edible with non-edible makes me feel panicky in this one!
Load More Replies...I would like to volunteer to clean up the "extra" pieces that weren't used in this lovely photo. And since chocolate doesn't last forever and because food wastage is such a large problem, I believe I could be persuaded to eat the contents of this photo (minus wrappers, thank you) if someone could direct me to these remains. Just trying to be a good citizen, please and thank you. 😇
It allowed the worker to see all the tools at once and to easily understand sizes and uses, everything seen in relation to everything else.
Tom Sachs, who was also working in Gehry’s furniture studio at the same time, adopted the method, and it was Sachs who formulated the first "rules" of knolling.
I Knolled My Beach Finds!
I see it in a frame made from wood pieces found on the beach!
Load More Replies...That's not knolling though, that's arranging aesthetically. Knolling is arranging in groups for quick retrieval by characteristic (color, shape, material, ... ) --- e.g., all the woody bits would have to be together.
Petticoats, old-fashioned boots, stuffed animals, purses, children who talk too much at school (the teacher always said to button our lips), 501 jeans, spaceships, Raggedy Ann and Andy.
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Corgis
At Rokin Metro Station In Amsterdam, The Netherlands, They Are Showing All The Archeological Artifacts They Found During The Construction Of The Line (Opened In 2018). Sorry For The Poor Photo, It Is Located Between Moving Escalators
It's a great idea, but it's a pity such an interesting collection of artifacts is exhibited in a place where they can be actually seen in detail.
Load More Replies...They obviously aren't as old as the ceramics found in the area but the cell phones and credit cards are still part of history. And shows the changes in everyday life in the area which is a big part of what archeology looks at.
Load More Replies...Here is a scan of a page from his notebook (1989) in which he describes how to aesthetically keep your belongings:
- Scan your environment for materials, tools, books, music, etc. which are not in use.
- Put away everything not in use. If you aren't sure, leave it out.
- Group all 'like' objects.
- Align or square all objects to either the surface they rest on, or the studio itself.
Typewriter By Todd Mclellan
The Ministry of Funny Walks lives on the left side of a knolled Smith Corona?!
The idea that someone put this together by hand, at least once upon a time, is so insane.
And paid for every single part to be separately manufactured.
Load More Replies...I Know This Isn't A Perfect Fit To This Sub, But I Thought You Might Still Appreciate My Granddad's Tool Shed :)
I Arranged My Cherry Tomatoes
Are the green ones ripe, too? I know there are yellow varieties, but I've never heard of green ones.
Even if they aren't ripe you can still use them in recipes like fried green tomatoes or green tomato pickles. Or use them in a stew where they'll soften and add a sharp citrus note. I had to pick a couple handfuls of greenies off our vines before a freeze hit last week.
Load More Replies...Those are beautiful, but they're grape tomatoes, not cherry tomatoes.
The picture is moving when I look at them. Is that happening for anyone else?
All The Shapes Found In The World's Flags
huh. never thought of such a thang. all the shapes (and colors I presume?)
Today, we see knolling in many places but some people also call it 'flat lays. '
Reddit aside, Instagram is awash in knolling too. Then there are various catalogs and product photography, commercials, and, of course, Apple stores!
The Handmade Tool Chest Of Henry O. Studley (1838-1925), Organ And Piano Maker
Reminds me a bit of my grandfather (1901-1995) he built a wooden case for every (large) tool that he had.
Everything Inside A Dutch Hospital Emergency Room (#tetrischallenge) [2000x1500]
They are in Europe; they can afford to do this with healthcare supplies and workers.
Load More Replies...The nurses and the patient i believe :3
Load More Replies...We did this in Nurse's training (US). Mainly to show us how much we wasted (ya' know - trying to SAVE a person's life) I, being the loudmouthed and soon to be fired nursing student, asked the Doctor to come back in the room, with some bullsh*t excuse. So, he comes back in and sees the absolute carnage that that room had to endure - several GSW to a black kid who was MAYBE 15. (Oh, gang banger. Nope, just wrong place & wrong time A+ student actually ) All of the blood on the floor, the astounding amount of gauze, the 6+ liters of O Neg we'd pumped into him, all the saline drips we'd pumped into him, the clothes we had to cut off of him, laying on the floor. Now, I pretty much told you I got fired for this, BUT this arrogant POS little trust fund A**HOLE needed a reality check. So I basically shoved him into the ER OR and pretty much yelled "You think YOU'RE the one who makes a f*cking difference? Really? My Mom was a NAVY Corpsman in Vietnam and I can GUARANTEE you she'd saved more f*cking lives than any of you a**holes in a white coat.
Great! Now you gotta sanitize everything you just put on the ground...
Okay but now they’ll have to throw out some of those single use items because they’ve touched the floor and are considered contaminated in surgery.
I don’t see any items that look to be single use tools actually touching the floor. I see that there seems to be a lot of things that could be single use in drawers or baskets on the ground, and/or still packaged? Most single use tools are kept packaged for sanitary purposes, and it seems unlikely that they would open them all for this photo. It is possible that some of the reused tools are getting dirty on the floor, but I’m sure they will be cleaned after this photo, or before they’re used again. These are medical professionals we’re talking about.
Load More Replies...All Those Hex Keys That Come With Furniture And Only Get Used Once
I think a lot of museums of Modern Art would hail this as the next big thing!
The museum of witchcraft will also accept this.. coz of all the hexes... I'll see myself out .
Load More Replies...I keep them in my tool box. They've come in handy many times and a simple piece of tape with a label makes it much easier to take apart that bed/bike/exercise machine later when the wife inevitably wants me to do so.
Your supposed to tighten the bolts every 6months or a year so they arent entirely useless... Especially office chairs
Things need to be tightened from time to time. I usually tape the hex key to some part of the thing, or keep it nearby.
Here's What's Inside A Swiss Police Car
69 upvotes! DONT RUIN IT (edit: DAM IT
Load More Replies...I can see the toothpick but not the tweezers, nail file or corkscrew!
LEGO Ideas #028 Set 21320
nice i have this set! it's dinosaur fossils... the t-rex is currently hiding behind the kwik-e-mart :) trex-654ea...f495ca.jpg
My First Old Camera, Took Me 2 Weeks To Find A Composition I Was Happy About
I Grew Some Potatoes In Buckets During The Last Few Months, Then Knolled The Crop From Each Bucket
LEGO 007 Aston Martin Db5 - Knoll Time To Die
I have this. I thought there were more parts than that. Certainly felt like it when I was building it.
you might be right! there are a couple lego bond cars... there's a set with less than 300 pieces which i have and is definitely the one pictured here. then there's another with like 1200 pieces! so perhaps that's the one you put together!
Load More Replies...Sorted Some Similar Shells At The Beach A Few Years Back
I'm inspired to replicate with water color! The biggest compliment of all!😎🥰
He Calls It ‘Line Up’
It seemed as so my son used to line up his toy cars just as much as he played with them. Once he lined and arranged them on the bathroom vanity.
I remember spending hours organizing my cars precisely where I wanted them on my Richard Scary rug
Load More Replies...He even uses the lines on the rug to keep everything straight! Love this!
I used to do this with my mom’s perfumes and nail polishes. Sometimes, I’d arrange by colour. Sometimes, by size. But I always had a system. I’ve always loved order 😂
My daughter used to do this! We had tile flooring in our home at the time, and she would line up her toys across the whole room. If you rearranged some when she wasn't looking (put the lion in the tiger's place and vice versa for instance), she would immediately know which were switched and "fix" it.
my son was doing the exact same thing. this and pairing my shoes in my walk-in... =0)
Imperfect Knolling? I Just Like Arranging Neat Organic Things From My Yard!
All 7541 Pieces Of The Ucs Millennium Falcon!
I feel like organizing that would have taken more time than it would have to just build the thing.
Also they come in numbered packages, so you know at which step to use which parts. If you want to put it together now, you're going to be searching for pieces for hours 🙈 when I started with mine I thought I'd have to do something like this first, until I noticed the parts were in fact not sorted by form or colour but by "when to use"
Load More Replies...Not a good advertisment for the product tho. Because upon seeing it my first thought was...not worth a year of my life to put that together.
Most expensive Lego set in existence, if I'm not mistaken. Don't lose any of those pieces!
Czech Police Riot Unit
We're Living By A Very Remote Estuary/Beach And This A Knoll Of Our Recent Evening Walks At Low Tide
I know this seems crazy. But this could be just about any country in the world. I don't see any seashell there that could be used to identify the country.
Well I can tell you it's not the Netherlands or France or England or Germany or any Scandinavian country. But for the rest...
Load More Replies...After The Dutch Police Car, Now A Military Medical Boxer From The Royal Netherlands Army
Am I the only one who’s bothered by the fact that the vehicle is not exactly straight in the photo? 😅
it's very very close. I believe you're getting a bit of an optical illusion from the slope of the hull.
Load More Replies...Wtf is a medical boxer? Is boxer a word for a vehicle? Bc it sounds like you're going to get beat up for getting wounded to me...
Finally Got Around To Knolling Our Junk Drawer
Congratulations! You just destroyed the magic inside the junk drawer...
Anyone whose junk drawer is this clean worries me as a person. Id be terrified to reach into the back corners of ours. Things might live there that have destroyed ancient civilizations. They have no name. No form. No purpose. They just are.
Wait the batteries are gonna roll around when the drawer is closed
This is so cool. Can't wait to see what my junk drawer will look like laid out like this This is so cool. I want to go dump out my junk drawer and spend the rest of my Sunday night making this kind of arrangement. Can't wait to see what it's going to look like!
Another Swiss Emergency Service: Dog Police Crew Setup
This also needs the scissors, the Phillips head screwdriver and the knife!
The Contents Of A Transavia Airplane
They even took the f*****g seats out 🤣
Load More Replies...My Dice Hoard
Oh good, you made sure to put the proper number facing up as well. That's how all mine are. ...side note: i need a few more sets now.
Because I always get happier at lurid colours, who else here would take the fluro yellow set without hesitation? All the rest kinda blur together for me.
I'd probably go the red/black set on the left end. Or the turquoise/black just above the teeny tiny d6 in the middle.
Load More Replies...The Contents Of A Preschool Teacher’s Apron Pockets At The End Of An Average Day
This is adorable! Kids sometimes do give you the most random “gifts”. Not a teacher or someone working with kids, but once my friend and I were at a homemade goods market at a stall with kids items talking with the owner who had a young boy. We adults were busy talking and throughout our conversation the kid kept handing out random stuff to us (from his own mom’s stall 🤣). When we came home we were clearing out random items from our pockets. I had a balloon (not blown), a toffee, some individual stickers, and a 3D handwork glue-on piece (idk if it’s called something, just random small objects kids can use in art work).
I’m In College, And My Grandmother Occasionally Sends Me “Care Packages.”
You have an amazing grandma! I still remember the one time my parents sent me a care package and how excited I was to see each item inside. I am attending university abroad and sending packages from home is extremely expensive (the postal cost is more than the total cost of the items inside) so I asked my parents to not send anything again unless unavoidable.
My grandma does too, she will find gluten free oreos and crackers and put them on one side and fill the other with chocolate!!
Would your grandmother send me a care package? Got to love the Nana's!
My kids are 2, 4 and 6yo. I am already starting to plan when I will start sending them care packages and how often and what to put in them.... lol. I know it's super early. But I'm also the type of person who starts to prepare for Christmas in June (when fleamarket-season starts). I just need to buy one more present and write Christmas cards and I will be pretty much done with prepping. Then it's just the fun hygge-stuff like baking cookies and setting up the kids to make creative Christmassy things. Oh... I wanna talk about Christmas now... sorry for the rant... will go and find my bf now. 🎅🤶
Me With Gear And Equipment For The Armed Forces Of Ukraine Donated By Redditors Over The Month Of September
Contents Of A Dutch Police Van
I love the fact they have bikes. Fastest way to get around sometimes, especially in the Netherlands.
A Venezuelan Immigrant Mother. Taken From The Un Refugee Instagram Account
At least one is, not sure about the other.
Load More Replies...Comparing The Color Distribution Of Two Mini Packs Of Smarties
You are NOT getting 42 smarties in a mini box. No way, no how, batman.
No, Kylie, orange ones last, because they're the only ones with a flavour 🤪
Load More Replies...I need to understand what these smarties are. They do not look like the smarties we buy in the USA. These look better
In the US the sugary tablet candy has the naming rights to "smarties" but in other places, like Canada, smarties are similar to m&ms, candy coated chocolate
Load More Replies...Lithuanian Firefighters
Could be a rescue s chute if people are stuck in a high place or something, or it could just be decorative since I’m pretty sure that’s the Lithuanian flag
Load More Replies...Dissembled Salad
Not to nitpick but:"disassembled" salad. A dissembled salad is a salad that lied about. Nice layout tho
The Swedish Sar Helicopter Run By The Swedish Maritime Administration Are Also Participating In The New Trend
I Found This Monstrosity On Facebook. Lol
I Fish For Metal With Magnets! This Is All Of The Stuff From My Last Trip!
There's a guy on YouTube that does this in intercity waters and help solve crimes.
I'm more curious about how they got the crazy straws. Do they have a bit of metal in them or did they just get trapped between the other things?
I have used those to hold fishing poles. stick in the sand and put pole in holder part.
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1969 Piece LEGO® Nasa Apollo Saturn V #21309 Knolling. I Had Read That Knolling Is "Doubling The Fun". After This Experience, I'll Have To Respectfully Disagree... Can't Wait For The Next One!
Student's Dorm
So many screwdrivers and all sorts of random stuff. How many years have the occupants of this room been living there?? If you arranged some of my batch mates rooms’ contents out like this you’ll get about 70 pairs of shoes from one room (between two roommates). My roommates and I too would have an unholy amount of shoes and clothes.
Probably ones they lost over the years but were eventually discovered when cleaning out the room.
Load More Replies...If you beleive the movies of what goes on in those dorms... some very essential items are missing.
Backpacking For The Weekend (The Excessive Amount Of Cliff Bars Are For My Friends)
That is two pairs of socks with slightly different designs. The way the socks are tucked into each other makes it look like one. I fold my socks the same way. It saves space
Load More Replies...Only TWO bags of Jack Links? So, this is just an afternoon thing, then.
From My Son's Pockets
I should have gone to Hogwarts, I was forever bringing home snakes, toads, frogs, lizards. My mom was afraid to put her hand in my pocket for fear of what she'd find. 🤣🤣
I sort of worry about the three hefty padlock loops that have been cut by bolt cutters. You may have a serious thief nearby.
Cut pockets off of his clothes. Donate them to women in need. This is too much stuff.
My LEGO Clone Army
144, i believe. 36(3*12) on the left, 72(6*12) in the middle, and 36(3*12) on the right.
Leaving For Antarctica In 3 Hours!
Need several flares, a blowtorch, a flame thrower, a case of lighters, and 200 boxes of matches. Plus some blankets.
Singapore Civil Defence Force Shows What’s Inside Their Fire Engines!
Royal Malaysian Air Force, 18th Squadron F-18d Hornet
My Yellow Things
I Heard You Like Swiss Emergency Services: Here Is The Picture Of A Firetruck From The Local Fire Department Of Thusis
Contents Of An Amsterdam Ambulance (From R/Thenetherlands)
My Flute Collection
The Recorders on the left bring back memories from primary school. Lots of out of tune playing
Reminds me of when my son was 5 or 6 and I went to a school recorder concert of 12 little ones and the sound made me cry because it was so childlike it really touched me. So discordant and innocent. It was beautiful.
Load More Replies...Knolling Nerds
Israeli Air Force - Winner Winner
Maybe the mum is in the air force and it was take your kid to work day?!
Load More Replies...I Knolled The Heart Of A Romaine Heart
60 Years Ago, The Hague Fire Brigade Received A New Fire Engine
My Just-Cleaned Gear For Traditional (Trad) Rock Climbing
Four pairs of shoes in case one falls off during a climb?
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Patrol Ship Of Rijkswaterstaat (The Directorate-General For Public Works And Water Management) In The Netherlands Doing The #tetrischallenge [2048x2048]
A Friend’s Daughter Organized Her Candy By Category, Size, And Color
Was Told You Guys Might Enjoy My Satsuma
This is how my daughter eats them. She's the slowest eater I've ever known. But I appreciate her attention to detail, patience and curiosity about each and every little kernel!
I used to do this to oranges before I ate them, when I was a kid.
The States Of The U.S
Thought I’d Share My Typical Setup For Spinal Cord Surgery
Thank you for your dedication! Even just seeing the needle for the spinal block before my C-sections put me in awe once again of anaesthetists and surgeons everywhere!
What Anesthesiologists Put Inside Of You For Routine Surgeries
Everything on the right side is for intubation. It keeps the patient's airway open since some anesthesia also relaxes/closes off the airway.
Load More Replies..."Oh, but we just don't know what's in that covid vaccine so I think I'll pass!" s/
I Dismantled My Clock For Final Finishing. Decided To Make It Pretty In The Meantime
Now I really want to know what the 0-5 and 0-9 scales are for measuring. Tens of minutes might work, I suppose, but what an odd clock it would be.
For the minutes. 0-5 is for the tens, and 0-9 is for the ones. 👍
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From Reddit, the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XtlYbIvaeB4&feature=youtu.be
Indoor Rock Climbing Holds
I Created This Exploded View Of My Sisters Dead iPhone
Ready For Our Flu Shot Clinic!
The Contents Of One Of My 6 Year Old Daughter's Coat Pockets
20 Years Of Music, All In One Knoll!
Posted This In R/Gardening And Was Referred Here. Til About Knolling
Probably not - I have grown three different varieties of carrots and they all taste slightly different, with the smaller ones usually being sweeter. This is why we should refuse agricultural monopolies and monocultures - think of all the delights we are missing!
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Elite Xbox Controller Broke, Soooooo
Instead of finding and fixing what was most likely a small problem you destroyed a expensive controller 😔
Lots of people would have thrown it away but you're harassing the person who made art
Load More Replies...My Girlfriend Knolled Some Of Her Favourite Things, And This Is The Result!
Just Discovered This Sub. I’m About To Do The “Blues Dad” Equivalent Of Building My Own Lightsaber — Painting, Wiring And Piecing Together A Custom Stratocaster
Strawberry Seed Knolling
Contents Of A Dutch Police Motorcycle
Rest In Piece Gtx 770 Twin Frozr
Enjoy Some Novice Knolling That’s Not An Emergency Response Vehicle
One Semester Worth Of Pen Recharges
Don't do what I did if your Japanese notes get wet in the rain and dry them with a hairdryer!!! The Frixion ink was, of course, gone in seconds. What an idiot!
If you put it in the freezer they come back
Load More Replies...Ready For My Triathlon!
Trash Required For One Cup Of Coffee From Aloft Hotels
This is why I recycle as much as I can and use reusable cups/bags when I can.
Springfield 1911-A1
Quick Knoll While Bored In Meeting
Cleaning Beer Taps
Once found out a place I worked only did this like once a month. I found out and started staying after closing to clean the taps. Also did the soda fountain. 🤢
Come on BP. I thought you where better than this? Using 'OCD' as something quirky? Can't you say something like "look at these beautiful orderly pictures" without mixing in an disorder into it? Wiki: "Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function.[7][1][2]"
i love doing this with my collection of random things. I have like rocks and buttons and seashells and coins and like a ton of random little things its so satisfying
Come on BP. I thought you where better than this? Using 'OCD' as something quirky? Can't you say something like "look at these beautiful orderly pictures" without mixing in an disorder into it? Wiki: "Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines (compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function.[7][1][2]"
i love doing this with my collection of random things. I have like rocks and buttons and seashells and coins and like a ton of random little things its so satisfying
