Half Size Notebooks

We like notebooks, we even tried to start a company analog.is around notebooks. Recently, we’ve been making a different style of notebook and given a few to friends. The feedback has been great, so it’s time we write a bit more about them. There is a company in Japan KOKUYO who makes Campus notebooks. They have won Japanese Stationary awards for their projects. It was probably here that we first saw half sized notebooks. Their’s are smaller B6 sized notebooks, similar to an A5 notebook. What made these unique was that instead of the spine being on the long side and opening portrait orientation like the books we’re used too, it was bound along the shorter side and opened landscape. Imaging taking one of those detective pocket notebooks with the spiral-bound top and turning them on their side. This is an evolution of usage. Kokoyou observed that students were studying in front of a computer with a full-sized notebook sitting awkwardly to the side. They created notebooks were shorter,…