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By: Isabel Dunstan
Date: 1st Aug 07
Product: Art
Theft: Theft is inevitable: Buy two
What:
Unfinished Notebooks by Studio Matador
Where:
Alphaville
Craft Victoria
Monk House
National Design Centre Shop
Online here
How much:
About $40
George Orwell speculated our paper-less society in Nineteen Eighty Four, "The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures." In a world where emoticons have replaced facial expressions, we reckon Orwell was onto something. But Unfinished Notebooks by Studio Matador encourage us to preserve the art of hand-written works by fusing the work of Australian artists with bare pages begging to be scribbled on.
Clynthn, Josh Gurrie, Kat McLeod, Mark Kayler-Thomson and Tobias Rottger have each scored prime real estate on their individual range of hard-board covers, bound by thread to allow the book to lie flatter than an LCD screen.
Dance the Madison to Alphaville and pick up Alpha 60's very own hot-off-the-press notebook. Then, once you're home you'll probably ditch your laptop, hoist nib to thumb and write furiously - revelling in the absence of spell check under-lines or berating paper-clips.