FACT 109 – あけまして〜

that would be ‘akemashite’ for those of you who don’t read japanese. it’s casual style for Happy New Year~

speaking of the new year! i mades a thing! … actually, the previously mentioned sarita (who calls me occassionally for her bookbinding needs (^_^) ) requested a 2009 date book, and of course, with a Bond theme.






red silk + shiny vinyl spine cut into the shape of the bullet opening. frankly, the most time-consuming portion of the fabrication was getting the stupid printer to print my design out properly! ERRR! it took me a good two days of yatsu v laserjet printer to get it to work properly. … well, the fact that the printer’s about two years older than moses and doesn’t have any kind of duplexing or booklet printing or anything like that seriously didn’t help. (T_T)

i designed the thing is Scribus (yays for linux!) and then wrestled the printer to the ground, and finally managed to bind the thing. sarita wanted thinner paper, so we went with some 22 lb printer stuff, but i’ve got of course bazillions of other options.

the good news is, i’ve been inspired to produce a whole line of these thingies! yeah yeah yeah, a little late. move on. (>_<) i'll be printing it on 32 lb ivory paper, with your choice of colors for covers and black spines. it's coptic bound, so it'll open nice and flat for fitting in all those desperately important events, and the paper's super sturdy, so it'll last through repeated beatings (trust me, mine has). i've got several layouts, including the above (vertical weekly layout), one month over two pages, also one page per day. if you've got any other ideas about layouts you want, let me know, i'll work 'em out.

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