The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy Hardcover – Clean, February 19, 2013

Saw a page from this book in a meme about sorting flowers. Managed to find it from there, and decided to order a copy for myself. Amusing and creative book. Some of them make you think a little, or are done using the magic of Photoshop. Looking at the title, for instance, you may not notice that the dots are removed from the bowl and aligned neatly by the fruit on the far right. Some of the "clean ups" are comically arbitrary. Why are these pieces of flower considered as a unit, while these are broken down and sorted further? Eh, I dunno. Many of these cleanups are far more amusing than visually satisfying (thinking especially of the chicken coop, and one more that would sort of be a spoiler).Anyway, worth the chuckle. And my current role as a software engineer focuses on code health, including code cleanup, so I like keeping this book handy as a humorous antithesis to my occupation.

This book is such a fun read and a wonderful coffee table book. It also makes a great gift. The illustrations are fabulous, and the extra details will surprise and delight you. Chances are you will never look at the world the same way after reading this book even if you run more towards the chaotic side of life than the OCD side. It will also spark fun conversations about your own OCD tendencies. My only warning.....just be careful you don't start organizing your partners french fries the next time you eat out!

This is a great gift.

Saw a news article about the artist and could not resist buying this book, which delivers surprising and pleasing images. Since it makes oyu think about the uses of order in our society, it's thought-provoking as well as pleasurable - the point of art, I guess. Only downside: it's very short.

My only wish is that he did more of them. The photos are so clever and so inventive that I was smiling almost unrelentingly as I paged through it. It is, however, quite short. But if you consider yourself slightly anal or obsessive-compulsive (guilty!), this is a wonderful book and a great gift. I plan to give out quite a few copies to friends.

Very interesting organizational way of creating art. I first saw Ursus Wehrli's YouTube TED Talk (Tidying up Art) and had to check out more of his work so I bought this book. The work in this book is a collection of his earlier pieces and they are very fun. I would like to see more of his current art pieces and the works in his TED Talk published in a book.This book and Ursus Wehrli are definitely worth checking out!

This book is so me. My husband bought it for me as a gift and I keep it out on the coffee table because it is a great book (it's balanced by a book of similar size on the other side of the coffee table of course). I like things to be organized and this is a fun exaggerated version of life at its most organized. Great book for that anal retentive person in your life. :)

A neighbor shares this with me and the next day I tracked it down on Amazon. It comes in the original German version as well(I ordered that one too). I think that it is nice to see that other people do some of the same things I do.....Yes, I line my fries up, and also eat all the imperfect Oyster Crackers first......just a few things my husband pointed out, that I was not aware of. This is a funny and fascinating book.