I brought a 2010 diary eventually, despite hundreds of styles we offer in our stores, I couldn't choose one I like so eventually I settled to make my choice regardless of the cover design, just the content. And I love Alife Design's content best, it has a vague resemblance of NAVA Design's font and layout which I also love. Yup, I gave up using Moleskine diary, couldn't find the layout design beauty out of it.
Much the same as how I did a 1Q84 book cover (in progress, finished book one), I used scrap paper bag, butter paper, MT masking tapes, stamps and photos printed on coarse paper to create a collage cover I like. It is durable enough for parts where butter paper is glued onto the surface.
The beauty of a collaged cover is that it ages well :). You don't have to worry too much about protecting its appearance coz you already accepted that battered look as a design. Fixing peeling corners is easy, just stick something on it by tapes.
The problem with Alife Design's diary is that it lacks a bookmark, but this can be easily fixed by gluing a ribbon to the spine. I chose to fix a soft leather strip on the back page which looks more like a real bookmark to me. I looooove this diary 😉
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thoughts
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