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: 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. In addition, reusing and repurposing are key subjects in contemporary society and this concept is already part of the market, although in different shapes.

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

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"

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inside overview
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paper selection
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