Handmade diaries/planners - how to design your own bespoke diary

It has already become a tradition that every autumn I design and make bespoke diaries for my customers.  And like every year you can choose from several options and variants.

How can you design your own diary?

1) Decide on the type of diary

- weekly version (week on two pages)

- daily version (each day on separate page, weekends joint on one page)

2) Choose a type of font

    - 'old-school'                                                  - 'typewriter'

 

3) Choose format - A6 or A5

4) Choose language version

- English language (incl. UK bank holidays)

 

- Czech language (incl. name days and holidays)

- Slovak language (incl. name days and holidays)

5) Choose the type of binding

-  perfect binding  (hardback with covered spine)                    

- Coptic binding (hardback with open spine and visible stitching)

6) Design the cover
- choose from dozens of designs or create your own with your own texts, pictures, etc.

Have you finished designing your diary? Have you got more questions?
Send me an email at immaginacija@gmail.com and have your diary made asap :-)

The Frock Enquiry and The Ruin

In the last couple of weeks I have had the pleasure of working on two poetry pamphlets - one written by Susie Campbell (The Frock Enquiry), the other by JT Welsch (The Ruin) both edited by Claire Trévien of the Annexe Magazine.

I always enjoyed creating books or pamphlets from scratch, so having the opportunity to do the typesetting, cover design, printing, stitching and trimming the final booklet was a great fun. But also hard work.

I'm pleased with the result and even more that both the authors and editor are happy with it too.

I was really moved and impressed by the extra poem Susie wrote for me as a thank you for my work :-)

Get stuffed

God is gorgeous
     reads an umbrella
          in rainy Oxford afternoon

bald trees advertising the
     half-term desertedness

museum is jam-packed
     stuffed
fox and hyena
     gently reminding us of
what we might also do

God is godlike
no more or less

Puppy-like

I wish I could have been

     a virtuoso pianist

          at my 30th birthday

I wish I could have celebrated

     and eaten more sugar

I like sugar

     they say it's bad for you

          or your teeth

            c a r b o h y d r a t e s

they fear them in Norway

     a friend told me

    some fear gluten

         and fat

              and dairy

                   and tooth fairy probably too

people like fear

     they treat it nicely

          dress it well in winter

               let it get tanned in summer

fear is like a grateful puppy

     always stays with you

          never grows old or impotent

               never loses its hair or gets Alzheimer's 

I wonder if Alzheimer had a dog

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