Special Souvenirs from Lisbon

Yulya Besplemennova
Yulya’s blog
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3 min readDec 19, 2015

Souvenirs is always a bit of a problem — you want to find some nice embodiment of memory of a place to bring with you, but you have to spend time searching instead of experiencing the place. Their quality is often questionable if they’re affordable and if not — you have to choose who of your friends you love the most to bring them limited amount of things.

So this time in Lisbon I spent some long moments in front of a stand with the amazing local notebooks and just went away without anything. Especially as they seemed just incredibly overpriced (as most of amazing stationery recently). Instead I though how many materials I can get for that money to make my own special notebooks for people and 1) have fun in process; 2) give people something really special and personal.

Then I didn’t even had to spend much time making my own graphics , which I would love to do anyway, but instead I stumbled upon some super nice promotional materials for exhibitions in the Museum of Electricity and immediately saw its future life in a form of notebooks covers instead of garbage bin inhabitants.

So here they are: 10 first A5 notebooks from Lisbon 2015 series =) The cover of each has traveled with me directly from there and inside it opens with the front page of a little memory of a place in a photo format. 7 of them are reserved for friends, but if someone wants remaining 3, I just need your address ;) And more different series are coming in the future!

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