Pietje Bell About Blanks notebook featured in this month’s Linda Magazine! Dit bericht bekijken op Instagram About: Pietje Bell About Blanks notebook featured in this month’s Linda Magazine! @linda #aboutblanks #linda #notabook #notebook #sketchbook Een bericht gedeeld door About Blanks (@aboutblanks) op 2 Mrt 2020 om 7:27 (PST) […]
EU Circular Economy is a joint initiative by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee. The European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform listed About Blanks as Good Practice on their website. About Blanks makes sketchbooks and notebooks from old books and recycled materials found in closets, attics and at book fairs. The old […]
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The idea of what would later become ‘About: Blanks’ started in 2013. At that time, I was studying at the Willem de Kooning Academie and spent a lot of time in the central library in Rotterdam. One day, I discovered a stack of old books that the library wanted to get rid of for a […]
The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant wrote a nice article about our About Blanks Original Notebooks, made from old book covers. You can read the article (in Dutch) with the link below: https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/de-boeken-van-about-blanks-zijn-een-probaat-alternatief-voor-de-papierbak~be20e3f5/ […]
Beautiful reportage by Vtwonen on recycling and upcycling in design for your home. And yes our unique notebooks made from old book covers are in it as well! Dit bericht bekijken op Instagram About: Beautiful reportage by @vtwonen on #recycling and #upcycling in #design for your home. And yes our unique notebooks made […]
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A book becomes a blank book as thousands of letters make way for empty pages to which you can entrust your own life story. Kjell Betlem turns old books into beautiful new notebooks. Not a Book: a notebook How did you get this idea? “I was lost the moment I saw a stack of old […]
Earlier Sieb from Good Ideas Grow on Trees interviewed us about our notebooks: Do you know that inkling feeling of happiness when entering a store and coming across a product that immediately just reasons with you? For me that is what happened a few weeks ago when I came across the About:Blanks notebooks in concept […]
