During a recent visit in Lisbon,

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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./u00a0To

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, 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/u2019Editions. 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 /u2019ORD/u2019 (word) and /u2019BILD/u2019 (image), hinting at the intended use of the notebooks. Together, the words make up the compound word /u2019ORDBILD/u2019. the Swedish equivalent of /u2019wordmark/u2019. For the cover and inlay, the designers/u00a0used two different papers, dark grey for the cover, light grey for the inlay, from Takeo, Japan/u2019s leading paper distributor.