Below are my final notebooks fully bound, screenprinted and with belly band ready to hand to the first years next year. I'm over the moon with how they've turned out; the neon is so clean and crisp, and has printed perfectly with such tiny weighted lines. The belly band was a bit serendipitous because originally it was meant to be completely blacked out but because the toner is terrible on the printer in our studio, when I exposed it on the screen it didn't fully come through leaving behind a mottled effect which personally I think look a whole lot better than a plain black belly band, I think it adds texture and character to whole notebook.
These are just a few images of the inside of my book, I feel the inside of the cover just adds something special to the book and an added texture to make it less boring. The front page instead of having a 'my name..' it now says '....@students.leeds-art.ac.uk' because from my primary research I found that a lot of people struggled with the email address a lot.
This is the saddle stitch on my book with the bees wax thread, the holes are a little too large and slightly scruffy because of the size of needle I needed to use. Next time I will probably use a thinner thread so that the needle doesn't have to be as thick.
