Analogue Beauty

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My workspace at the moment, a mixture of both digital and analogue worlds, and as usual, faintly chaotic: OCD librarian meets a pissed Loki head-on in a back alley. What's prompted this reflection is an email exchange between me and my old mate Phil, who shares a lot of my ink & paper-based peccadillos and obsessions: we both love analogue: notebooks, card-indexes, fountain pens, etc., etc., whilst both being firmly entrenched in the digital world: both of us early adopters, many, many years since. I sent him a link to what I consider one of my best finds in recent years: one of the loveliest pieces of pure graphic product design I've seen since the glory days of the late 1960s. As I said to Phil, I can't see this as being of any real practical utility to me, given that my approach to organising my stuff is unique to me: the modus operandi of a butterfly mind lends itself not to the tidy. But the purity of the graphic design and execution of this journal is just a joy for any of us schooled in that era. I intend to invest the thirty quid simply to own such a piece of art: I doubt I'll be brave enough to mar its pristine surfaces, though; but you never know ;0) ...

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