This graphic designer uses wood, metal, keys, cave drawings hand-made paper and a peek into your personality to customise designer notebooks
This graphic designer uses wood, metal, keys, cave drawings hand-made paper and a peek into your personality to customise designer notebooks
There is still hope for good old- fashioned journaling. Pen companies, diary makers and stationery brands are trying to increase the ever-shrinking tribe of pen pushers. Then there are people like Riddhi Desai who, on a whim, created personalised notebooks for close friends.
"I love hand crafting things. So, one fine day, I made some notebook samples and showed it tou00a0 friends. They loved them and asked for more. That's how I ended up making personalised books for all of them," says the 27 year-old art director at a design studio.
The bashful graphic designer keeps her customised hand-made notebooks so personalised that no two specimens she creates are similar, leave alone alike. Write in it. Gloat about it. Shamelessly display it on the shelf. Or flaunt it to work, safe in the knowledge that no one else will have anything quite the same.
Hardbound, all of them, some have wooden planks, raw silk and metal for covers bound with thin rassi at times.
Orange, mustard, lime and lemon-coloured papers peek out of one. Dreamy-eyed hand-painted frogs float past the storybook title in another one for a writer friend. Three installments of a Phad folk painting from Rajasthan are spread on the pages of a third. But there is method to the craziness.
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A key bookmark |
Nature-inspired notebooks |
"I use a questionnaire to understand the customer's requirement for the book and their tastes and preferences," she explains. Questions about paper type and look (it's mostly hand-made) are followed by trickier ones like "What do you want in life?" If the answers don't satisfy her, Riddhi will interview you on the phone and, maybe, ask for
your picture.
To buy a personalised notebook from Riddhi (priced Rs 1,500 onwards), send an email to riddhi@theblueskys.com
