DIAGRAM, an electronic publication for (to pick some words from their submission guidelines) ‘representations, naming, indicating, schematics, the labelling and taxonomy of things… vivisection, urgency, risk, flamboyance… writing that demonstrates / interaction; the processes / of things, both inner and outer’; An Atlas of Radical Cartography, maps and essays ‘about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration’; A Shoal of Mackerel, an aritsts’ book publishing house based in Glasgow and Göteborg.
26 October 2009, 1:04am • art everything else paper things northerly language Comments (View)
Gift of the Trees
One-of-a-kind book object, wooden board piano hinge binding with twigs, pages contain pressed leaves and pencil drawings of tree fruit.
by Selkie Bindery
24 February 2009, 5:55pm • natural history objects paper art Comments (View)
2009 diaries
Today’s post brought a slightly belated gift to myself: a 2009 diary!
Before I unveil it, though, I’ll showcase what I found in my researching at the end of December. My criteria: approximately A6 size, week to view, with a pleasant page layout and a proper binding. This rules out all offerings from places like Paperchase — awful typography! — at once.
At first I was considering Muji; they had a brown-card-covered weekly diary which soon vanished never to be seen again, even on their website. Still there, though, was this set of quarterly booklet diaries in a frosted polypropylene slipcase.
On Etsy, dozi’s pocket planner:
Or Earmark’s Agenda:
And the so charming 2x6 diary, by Doma (distributed by Katy and June):
I also found, on my second round of searching, recycled leather diaries from Undercover:
…though these didn’t quite do enough to tickle my fancy.
What rose above all of the above in the end, from factors of price, practicality and (nevertheless) aesthetic loveliness, was TeNeues’ Charley Harper small ‘magneto’ diary. Heliotrope features the whole range of diaries and calendars; for technical reasons I can’t steal their pictures. Luckily, Amazon (where I purchased mine) isn’t so restrictive:
The cover is textured! The pages are ivory-coloured, and not glossy; the dates are printed in dark grey rather than black. The back has a section for addresses and notes, and a little document pocket. It’s the sturdiest of all the options I’ve considered — and my diaries tend to fall apart every year, barring 2006, year of the Moleskine weekly diary. The occasional pages with bird illustrations are a delightful bonus. Oh, I am certainly pleased. Here’s to 2009.
14 January 2009, 4:23pm • paper Comments (View)
The Twelve Dancing Princesses; Wild Flowers; Birds.
Su Blackwell cuts paper.
5 December 2008, 1:48pm • art paper natural history Comments (View)
