{"product_id":"about-blanks-notitieboek-small-nr-4","title":"About Blanks Notebook from an Old Book Cover | Small | no.4","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout Blanks makes notebooks out of the cover of an old book. The text block is taken out and the cover is refilled with blank sketch paper. An old book that would otherwise be thrown away is reused and given a new purpose. Because every cover comes from a different book, there is only one of this copy — in size as well: this one measures 18 by 12 centimetres and is 1.5 cm thick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cover of this copy is grey cardboard with a small scene in gold: a windmill, a farm and a house. The book is Nederlandsche hofjes by D.P.M. Graswinckel, a volume in the Heemschutserie — small books on Dutch heritage published from the 1940s by Allert de Lange in Amsterdam. A hofje is a Dutch almshouse courtyard, tucked away behind the street front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eFrom an old book to a new notebook\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld books nobody reads any more are taken apart: the text block comes out, the cover stays. It is rebound with blank sketch paper in a light cream shade, from responsible sources (FSC). The paper is blank, without lines, so it works as a notebook to write in just as well as a sketchbook to draw in. The traces of its first life and the memory of the novel it was stay visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eMade in a sheltered workshop\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Blanks notebooks are made in a sheltered workshop, where people with a disability or poor job prospects are employed. Each book is bound there by hand. That also means no two books are exactly alike, and small irregularities come with the product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrand:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/about-blanks\" title=\"View the entire About Blanks collection\" style=\"color: rgb(128, 128, 128);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Blanks - View the entire collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCover material:\u003c\/strong\u003e reused grey cardboard book cover with gold printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaper:\u003c\/strong\u003e blank sketch paper, light cream (FSC)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H 18 | W 12 | D 1.5 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMade in:\u003c\/strong\u003e the Netherlands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eEvery book is one of a kind\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery cover comes from a different book, so no two About Blanks are the same. The first two photographs on this page are of this very copy, so you can see exactly what you are getting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAbout Blanks\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Blanks comes from Rotterdam and turns on a single idea: reuse what is already there. Old book covers get a second life as a notebook, filled with paper from responsible sources. The brand sees the scarcity of raw materials as a reason to be more inventive with the materials we already have, and the books themselves as a reason to start something new — an idea, a note, a drawing. No two books are alike, and that is the whole point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"About Blanks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56687282061656,"sku":"ABOUTBLANKS-S-4","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0505\/9044\/9818\/files\/About_Blanks_29_Designmarket_B.jpg?v=1770631744","url":"https:\/\/designmarket.today\/en\/products\/about-blanks-notitieboek-small-nr-4","provider":"Designmarket.today","version":"1.0","type":"link"}