blankness possibilities and surprises

hello. today i am sharing with you a project that i've been working on for a while in collaboration with Plumb Goods, designers Mcfadden & Thorpe, and head project guru Tucker Nichols. the deal is this: we dreamed up a group of notebooks or sketchbooks or blank books or whatever you want to call them, hid all kinds of secret art things in them (which i am not showing here because we all love discovering and looking and finding) and then made them. and i am stoked on them.

here i will show them all to you and maybe you can go to the plumb site and look at the ones some other artists made, all of which are special in their own way. ok here we go:

 this is the WAKING WAITING WALKING set of three notebooks

one for when you wake up. 

one for when you are waiting for something. 

one for when you are walking around.

they ar all bound differently... 

like a regular book

like a journalist's pad

like a landscape

 and it comes with an accordian fold out book of a drawing i made about the notebooks

 here they are

that gold stamping came out rad

and each book or set of books comes with an interview card where i talk about stuff

katie took that photo in terri's backyard a year or two ago

and now this one:

 this one is the fake book one

you know me: i love fake books

so i made some real ones

 each sketchbook, a nice hardbound thing, comes with two double-sided book covers for a ttoal of four fake books you can look like you are reading or drawing in so you can look smart or dumb or whatevber these things are supposed to make you look like

 here they are

and here it is open 

it really is a nice feeling thing

and we made some inside art and some surprises. 

lots to look at i promise

 and look: another interview card

and then this one:

 this one is record size

and the idea is maybe to use it while you are listening to records

or you can keep it with your records

 and everyone loves inserts with their records so we made some

 here's the pad

 here's a fold-out poster

 here's a mail-order catalog

and here's another interview card 

with a photo by andrew hutchison 

from a show i did at big car in indianapolis indiana

and remember there are secret art things in each one

so please take a look

because we made these for you

and we hope you like them