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Blank handbound sketchbooks for your art-to-product era?
I turn your work into beautiful, high quality sketchbooks that you can sell or gift to your community.
Have the perfect design that you’re busting to see as a sketchbook cover?
Let me help you with that.
Illustrators ♥︎ Fine Artists ♥︎ Designers ♥︎ Workshop Hosts ♥︎ Surface Pattern Designers ♥︎ Small Creative Biz Owners ♥︎
Illustrators ♥︎ Fine Artists ♥︎ Designers ♥︎ Workshop Hosts ♥︎ Surface Pattern Designers ♥︎ Small Creative Biz Owners ♥︎
Step One
Send me a digital file/ scanned artwork (JPEG or TIF), 300dpi minimum. You can have up to five different designs.
Specify your paper type, weight and size (up to 21cm square)
Step Two
I’ll custom print your design on a cotton/linen fabric blend through an Aussie small biz and cover and hand bind your books
Step Three
Sell your journals on your website (RRP 49-99), gift them, or use them yourself
HOW IT WORKS
Designed by you, handbound by me. I create these books so that your art can shine. They lay-flat and are filled with blank pages that can handle the boldest ideas.
32 pages of artist quality paper
illustrated by you!
fabric printed on the Central Coast
lovingly handbound by Lou
You’re supporting small creative Australian businesses every step of the way
CUSTOM COVER COLLAB PACKAGES
THE 5 PACK
$250 AUD
What’s Included:
Five x 32 Pages of Artist Quality Paper
Cotton Linen Fabric
Durable Hardcover
Handbinding in Coptic Stitch
Delivery (Australia)
Cross Promotion
Email List & Instagram
Alumni feature page
Artwork Set Up Instructions
Artwork Quality Check
Wait time is 6-8 weeks
from submitting your design
THE 10 PACK
$410 AUD
What’s Included:
10 x 32 Pages of Artist Quality Paper
Cotton Linen Fabric
Durable Hardcover
Handbinding in Coptic Stitch
Delivery (Australia)
Cross Promotion
Email List & Instagram
Alumni feature page
Artwork Set Up Instructions
Artwork Quality Check
Wait time is 6-8 weeks
from submitting your design
Save $9 Per Sketchbook!
THE 20 PACK
$700 AUD
What’s Included:
20 x 32 Pages of Artist Quality Paper
Cotton Linen Fabric
Durable Hardcover
Handbinding in Coptic Stitch
Delivery (Australia)
Cross Promotion
Email List & Instagram
Alumni feature page
Artwork Set Up Instructions
Artwork Quality Check
Wait time is 6-8 weeks
from submitting your design
Save $15 Per Sketchbook!
Baseline paper options are Fabriano (200gsm Bristol, 200gsm hot press 100% cotton watercolour, 300gsm cold press aquarelle watercolour, 300gsm mixed media). Other paper options can be provided and will be quoted separately. Please get in touch with me to check that I can deliver what you’re after. Square books will be $10 extra per book. If you order via the link and add a note to your order, I’ll invoice you the difference.
Meet Lou…
I was a mechanical engineer in the Navy for 17 years but a chronic illness has taken me down a different path. Finding book binding (hello patterns and puzzles) gives me something meaningful to put into the world.
Plus, I get to make books that you sell to your customers, gift to special humans, or that you fill and proudly display on your bookshelves, to treasure forever. There’s a reason I look so happy.