I wanted a blank a5 book to make notes in, but I actually couldn’t find one on sale anywhere around here. So I made one.

I cut a pad of a4 drawing paper in two, put all the paper together and glued the spine with wood glue, to keep all the pages together.

Then made a cover, drilled holes all the way down the side, and bound everything together with the japanese binding technique I learnt in my papermaking class.

The cover is made from a map of Tuebingen, the place in Germany where I was living for the past five months or so.

The binding string is a sort of plastic rafia that I found in my parents’ garage. It’s durable and looks pretty neat. Nice colour.

I started doing some quick sketches of things.

They are admittedly quite poor but I honestly have practically no experience drawing on paper. I’ve always worked with a tablet on the computer, since joining the Clock Crew. Happily though, i’ve found a lot of skills are transferable.

Will probably post more sketches as I progress.