During a recent visit in Lisbon, Lundgren+Lindqvist happened upon a set of delicate, handmade notebooks from the brand Namban. Some research showed that the Namban brand was run by two local architects. To Lundgren+Lindqvist, the perfect notebook is the one that you always carry with you and the Namban notebook, with its soft, flexible cover and pocket friendly size proved to be just that – a constant companion. After using their notebooks for a while, the designers contacted the founders of the brand to investigate the opportunity for co-designing an special edition of the notebooks for ll’Editions. The result is the ORD-BILD notebooks, released in an edition of 25 sets – each containing two notebooks and a hand numbered brass token, housed in a staple bound, flat foiled box.
The hand embossed cover of the notebooks features a typographic composition consisting of the words ’ORD’ (word) and ’BILD’ (image), hinting at the intended use of the notebooks. Together, the words make up the compound word ’ORDBILD’. the Swedish equivalent of ’wordmark’. For the cover and inlay, the designers used two different papers, dark grey for the cover, light grey for the inlay, from Takeo, Japan’s leading paper distributor.