Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Paper Love UJ notebook with an illustrated cover
Project info
- Design
- Magdalena Tekieli
- Brand
- Paper Love
- Client
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków
- Project
- Paper Love UJ notebook with an illustrated cover
- Format
- 151 × 216 mm
- Pages
- 160
- Inside
- Envelope
- Paper
- Made without chlorine or optical brighteners, FSC and EU Ecolabel certified
- Endpaper
- Paper made from by-products of chocolate production: about 15% of the cellulose is replaced by cocoa bean husks, 40% post-consumer recycled fibre, GMO-free, FSC certified, made with renewable energy, with a 20% lower carbon footprint
- Publisher
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków
The motif on the cover of the notebook uses collage technique and is based on unique illustrations from old books from the Jagiellonian Library collection. The human figures originate from miniatures from the Balthasar Behem Codex, published in 1505, a collection of charters and statutes of the city of Kraków and its burgher guilds. The book is considered the most precious historic manuscript in Poland. The depictions of plants and animals come mostly from the exotic book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensis by Maria Sibylla Merian and from multi-volume works.
The cover looks like a page from an old book of curiosities: figures from the miniatures of the Behem Codex meet flowers, reptiles and insects from Maria Sibylla Merian's engravings. The collage is bound with a burgundy cloth spine, with two black ribbons to mark the pages.
On the cover, the gold foil crest of the Jagiellonian University stands next to Magdalena Tekieli's mark, separated by a thin line like the signatures of two authors. Inside are lined pages, and at the back an envelope for keepsakes.
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