Work is ongoing to deliver the Workbook app to market. The latest build is being tested and the backlog to MVP being reassessed to clarify just how much work is left to get this labour of love to market.
The video below is from an earlier build. We’ll get a new one uploaded once available.
As of the time of writing, our attempt to digitise the Workbook into an iOS was suppose to launch before Xmas 2021. However, bugs and time constraints meant it was not to be. We are hopeful we can launch early in 2022.
Watch this space!
Not long after we printed our Original Designers Workbooks the lovely people at Computer Arts got in touch to say how much they loved them and could we send a few as they’d like to put them in the next issue. We were only too happy to oblige and a few weeks later this was on the newsagents shelves.
There’s an App for everything, apparently.
Well no there’s not, there’s not an Original Designers Workbook App — yet! So we thought we should rectify that and get designing and planning. And we did.
With clear ideas of functionality that will be invaluable to the creative industry our planned digital Workbook will let users create notes that they can search, track, share, edit and assign. We are now seeking a digital partner to help us get the Original Designers Workbook App to market on both iOS and Android who will share in the success of this unique and proven product.
There is more information on our dedicated ODW App page, with a couple of sneak preview visuals. If you are an iOS or Android developer and interested in a partnership agreement, please get in touch.
Last year, not long after we’d printed our 1,000 copies of the Original Designers Workbooks, we sent a few off to Grafik in the hope that they’d put them in their magazine. Alas they didn’t feel they would be right for the luscious pages of their international journal on graphics, preferring to featuring screenprints from the brilliant Anthony Burrill or some super sexy collaboration between Generation Press and Build. We understood. The ODW is a functional design—with a nice clear foil block on the cover—but essentially 200 of the 204 pages are identical. It’s not going to win a D&AD Black Pencil (well it would be amazing if it did, but we won’t put the Bolli on chill just yet).
What the Workbook does offer is a damn useful notebook/sketchbook. However, having used them in their offices for nearly a year and finding them utterly invaluable, they’ve put our Workbooks top of their “Objektified” list of the most desirable notebooks around.
http://www.grafikmag.com/index.php?m=GR&sub=GRdetail&id=378
So thanks to Dan who wrote the article and we’re chuffed you find your Workbook so valuable.
Chris at Concrete Hermit in London’s trendy Shoreditch, one of the coolest design shop/galleries in London has agreed to stock our Original Designers Workbooks! Yay! So there’s now two locations in London to get your grubby designer paws on them.
We’re almost out of Black covered Workbooks — should we do a reprint next year? Get in touch and let us know, we’d also like to know if you think you’d like an A5 version of them?
As featured on page 21 of issue 164 of Computer Arts magazine.
http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/squared
Jon Hicks, a designer in England, really wanted to test out our Workbooks but alas the Design Museum was sold out of them when he tried to get one. We wish they would order more in advance of selling out, as they always sell out. Oh well, keep trying them!
We’re actually running out of Black ones, with only about 50 left…we have a few more of the other colours left.
The Design Museum in London are now stocking our Original Designers Workbook. With our own online store now running and the RIBA Bookshops also considering stocking them there are now more opportunities to buy a copy.
