The notebooks

Three lines of notebooks
leave this studio.

All on the same 105 g paper, all sewn by hand, and always a few new ones on the shelf. What you see here is a sample; the living shelf is on Naver ↗.

Contents · the three lines

i. Illustrated notebooks

hello, my name is robey. i live in these.

Each keeps one scene from his walks: a real place in Seoul, painted in the studio, printed on the cover, sewn with the scene’s own color of thread. His letter travels sealed in the box, never printed. The painting and the object, side by side:

Scene 001, the painting: Robey beneath falling petals by a stone wall — 001 · red thread

Petals at the Window

i rested by a window while the petals fell.
On Naver ↗

Scene 001 as a sewn notebook — 001 · red thread

Petals at the Window

i rested by a window while the petals fell.
On Naver ↗

Scene 002, the painting: Robey with a small orange balloon — 002 · orange thread

The Orange Balloon

a balloon that did not want to land.
On Naver ↗

Scene 002 as a sewn notebook — 002 · orange thread

The Orange Balloon

a balloon that did not want to land.
On Naver ↗

Scene 003, the painting: Robey reading at the foot of a towering library — 003 · navy thread

The Little Library

the shelves reached the sky. i stood there a long time.
On Naver ↗

Scene 003 as a sewn notebook — 003 · navy thread

The Little Library

the shelves reached the sky. i stood there a long time.
On Naver ↗

Waxed orange linen thread through a sewn spine, in close-up

Printed covers and page blocks on the bench, ready for sewing

A handwritten dedication in ink, in close-up

Sewn, stamped, signed. Every copy leaves the same bench.Plates ii to iv

ii. Practice notebooks

In preparation

Each takes a Korean word worth living with, and turns it into pages that make room for it: a little thinking, a little gratitude, a little staring into space. The word and the object, side by side:

멍

Cover art · photograph to come

The notebook
to come

The first word

멍 · Mung

the art of staring into space.

Hear about it first

···

The next word · being chosen

The notebook
to come

The second word

Still in the idea notebook

robey is practicing, below.

iii. Monjo notebooks

For work

Plain, white, the mark and nothing else. The same paper and the same sewn spine, in work clothes. The pair and the rulings, side by side:

Two plain white Monjo notebooks stacked on navy linen — Black thread

Monjo, plain

Plain, lined, or grid. A5 and pocket A6.
On Naver ↗

The three rulings, plain, lined and grid, fanned on navy — Black thread

Monjo, plain

Plain, lined, or grid. A5 and pocket A6.
On Naver ↗

Your mark

A company notebook worth keeping.

Companies put their own logo on that white cover, printed and sewn in this same studio. Message the studio on Instagram.

right there,
on the white cover.

All three lines: 105 g paper, kind to fountain pens · sewn, never glued, opens flat · A5 and pocket A6 · plain, lined, or grid · FSC certified

The shelf keeps growing.

the next scene is found. leave your address, you will hear first.

Every current notebook is on Naver ↗, from ₩25,000.
Naver ships within Korea only. From abroad, message the studio on Instagram to order.

every cover is a real place. i never say where.
some people find them anyway.

fin