Thought/Things: Getting away with it; notebooks
July 30th, 2010 | by gordon |The truth is, I think many designers don’t get away well enough by being designers. If anyone who wants to be a designer, either fake it well or make sure you have sufficient skills/brains/eye for detail/interest/indulgance/ into the world of graphic design. Part of your personality as a graphic designer will show in the things you carry and wear, even drive. Some things don’t come cheap unfortunately, but it might just help sell your services a little bit better…
One way to get away with it is to have cool notebook covers:
The book on the right is where I use the very traditional way of writing down quotations given by suppliers/printers:
A classic Charles Mossant advertising poster on the cover of a notebook will surely add some level of sophistication…
Rejected logos sometimes made cool covers:
And of course, the elegant Moleskin (kind-of in my case…):
Well, I might be wrong, sometimes, designers carry boring notebooks with brilliant sketches and ideas inside. But hey, its about what’s in the inside right?
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Of course, you can be strictly consistent in your notebooking, Michael Beirut style.