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What type of notebook would suit you best?
Does it need to slip into a pocket or always sit
in a special place?
Would a pen and paper, and some sticking and gluing,
get you more in touch, or might a digital tablet device
suit you better?
The more in-tune we get through notebook making,
the more our creativity will benefit, and vice-versa.
As the saying goes, ‘Have notebook, will travel.’ This summer, my travel
notebook comprised a folder with loose sheets of folded A4 paper to
make 297x105mm 112 Ways-size notebooks while on location. It also
included a tiny Canon dye-sub printer, a camera phone to take visual
notes and to drive the printer, a pen, craft knife, needle and thread.I like the idea of including a small display easel with the 112 Ways notebook
on page 50. The easel would be housed in black foam board and stored
with the notebook in its slipcase sleeve. Here the easel recess is sketched
out – I will later discuss the cut out with a neighbour who has a laser cutter
in her garden shed!EDDIE EPHRAUMS
To see more of Eddie work and services
visit envisagebooks.co.ukcan learn in the process.
Yesterday’s realisation was to
make not one notebook, but
several different types. I wanted
to start with a semi-traditional
bound notebook and to see what
other designs I could come up
with. One aim was to see how
different forms of notebooks
might influence the way I
approach photography, just as
different cameras greatlyinfluence the way I see. Once this
idea took seed, a whole host of
different notebook design
concepts popped into mind,
some of which I’ve included here.
In life, it’s incredible how one
moment we can be creatively
blocked and the next we can be
so alive with ideas. Notebooks
(as well as afternoon snoozes!)
provide the space for this
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