User:FLEM/Notebook

A research log for the perfect no-waste-notebook

.TRASHBOOKSatelier concept

The main concept of TRASHBOOKSatelier was born while I was making a book as a Christmas gift for a friend: it was late and I could not go and buy anything so I used every type of paper I had in the house. Different papers, with different weights, different colours, everything kept inside an Amazon box’s cardboard. I realized how interesting was to create books from waste and finding ways to make it work.

I worked for a while on a series called Sketch(totrash)books, no waste editable sketchbooks, consisting of books made of waste. These sketchbooks are meant for artists to paint on the cover and make every single book unique and personal, helping the planet! At present, many of the sketch(totrash)books are made from waste offered by Boothsprint, a printing house in Penryn, UK. Most of their covers are made with delivery cardboard packages.

.current research

during the first semester at xpub I have been using an iperborea notebook, measurements: 10x20 I find it amazing but the fact that it involves cutting paper out, I didn't want to create a new notebook out of that idea without finding a solution that would not waste anything

I thought about folding instead of cutting and I actually came up with a nice solution:

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  folding both sides for lateral annotation

I thought it was nice to add additional notes on the side of the main sheets.

this option later suggested an additional possible feature: folding just on one side to create a bigger paper sheet, by opening it.

the idea is to create a notebook that permits the user to play it around and adapt it to their own needs.

at the moment, the current notebook has already shown a series of pros and cons:

+ it occupies less space but offers bigger pages
+ the additional lateral wings allow modularity: the user can move the wings to connect with multiple pages at the same time 
+ if the user forgets something the wings give more space to write
+ the wings can be used differently by everyone
- the fact that it's folded means it's thicker and it's difficult to write if it's too big
+ by using it horizontally the above problem is resolved
+ can have patterns/contents that move from the wings to different pages throughout the notebook [also at later stages if you are still working on the topic]
+ fold page wing to avoid the page to be moved by the wind (!!!)
+ offer different types of paper to people if they want to draw (or whatever) without ruining the binding and of a nice shape//vertical
- still can't write because it's too big 
- it can get wet --> make it waterproof

(see gallery for results)

see modularity: "the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use"

idea: triangle book

.materials

a4 multiple types of papers (white, cream, coloured, thicker, thinner etc..)
a4 wrong prints
amazon cardboard

.notebook analysis

.prototypes updates

20.09.22

I delivered to Supi the first notebook kit: An adjustable and editable notebook with included tape and papers for continuation

The idea is that this type of notebooks allows the user to build it up easily as their needs come over and adjusting and editing while using it and not being forced to stay in a standardised area for standardised notebook users.

21.09.22

Made a prototype for chae (a multicolumned notebook: could we fold it more?)

Officially opened the notebooks (temporary) archive

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workshops & M&Ms

.gallery

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  inside overview

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  inside overview

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  inside pocket

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  opened

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  ouside cover

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  paper selection

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  side view

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  notebook in the wild