Debossing your Moleskine

No, its not taking your notebook off management's hands. Eric Au, a Master's Candidate in Industrial Design at the University of Calgary has come up with this very cool M Mod:

"I have been a user of moleskines since about 1 year ago. I found that they were great b/c I could cram alot of stuff into them and at the end of each one, would be filled and ultra thick with information and design. I am an industrial design masters student and since joining the formal design community, I found it useful to make things very personalized, but keep them designer-ish. So I set out to make a debossing effect on the front cover."

" After careful thought, the best solution would be using some old typewritter fonts that would be used for a Canon electric typewritter that had exchangable wheels for different fonts. I aquired some through a very nice resource centre friend and staff. I carefully taped down the letters to form my name and the word design since that would be the purpose of this moleskine and each successful one from now on. Then taped the pattern of letters on the cover and tapped them with a hammer to depress the letters in the soft oilskin."

"The results were impressive and I enjoy it immensely. I will be doing these with maybe themes since I have a few sets of fonts. Stuff like differentiating the differences between the multiple moleskines I currently employ as my devices. I use the large and small grid ones."

"I hope this provides another way to personalize the front of the moleskine, but keep the clean and classic look of the book. For those who understand typography and care, the font is Orator size 10. Enjoy!"

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Homework help:

"Debossing: an inverted form of embossing in which a relief plate is placed under the sheet of paper as it is run through a press. That area of the paper is thus lowered, rather than raised.

Embossed print: a print in which a three-dimensional effect is achieved through the pressing of the paper into the crevices of the plate or wood block."

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[Sophie Brown]

Call me slow, but I still think I'm missing a step in how this was accomplished.