Too Many Notebooks (Or Anything Else)? Don’t Kill Your Stuff—Transform It
Use the container concept to learn how to keep only what fits
When I was studying for my Bachelor of Design, everything we did relied on paper.
Typesetting, photos, plans, paintings, prototypes, presentations — all of it required varying grades and textures of pressed, stretched, and finished tree fibres. This was the late 1980s, when CDs looked like impossibly small, silvery vinyl records and Apple computers were nothing more than a novelty. Paper was king and we, its loyal subjects.
How could we have known that the tsunami of the digital revolution was taking its first quiet inhale?
Those deceptively still waters were still a curiosity to be explored by an adventurous few. On its way was a slow-motion digital deluge that would change not only the world of design, but every industry that transmitted information and remembered things by making marks on paper.
In those initial, heady days of digital discovery, being paperless wasn’t yet possible. Some people dove head first into the waves while others, unable to see the point, held back.
I mean, who could guarantee that those unholdable bleepedy-blips wouldn’t disappear right when we needed them?
