Steampunk notebooks by Asiya Mahdi

Steampunk notebooks by Asiya Mahdi
Do you enjoy works of H. G. Wells, William Gibson? Did you imagine a whimsical world of Jules Verne and Paul di Filippio? Do you need a travel notebook for travel writing? For you – note pads with aesthetics “Steam Time Steampunk”. Genuine leather, gilding, silvering, aging, codex medieval embroidery. The material Asiya Mahdi uses – Eyelets, rivets, part of the Clockworks, buckle-buttons, mechanisms, and fantasy. She sees no rules and the use of vignettes. Mahdi is a talented designer and artist. Her artworks include Design, carving, embroidery, musical instruments, restoration, and Binding.

According to the artist, the most beautiful thing that falls to our lot – is mysterious. That mystery is the basis of feelings, from which grows the art. Ability to be surprised allows you to see the hidden seeds in simple everyday things and they grow in something new. Looking at other people’s work, we look at the world through the eyes of the master, through the prism of his perception.

“I have always admired the paper. They say that a piece of paper is your personal universe. It can be folded into origami piece, you can make notebook, mark up and bind the book … My work with paper has a small but complex universe. Here every little thing maybe not noticeable at first glance, came out of thought, and carried out on a unified concept. I started making and binding books long ago. At first only for myself, then as a gift and now for sale”.

Steampunk notebooks by Asiya Mahdi

“Personally for me – it’s such a strange pleasure when everything in the book has been done deliberately. In particular, typeface and vignettes, footnotes and painted illustrations, book marks, the title and cover of course! The most amazing thing is that for many years the techniques of book publishing has not changed, and I’m using the same techniques as the masters, who worked by candlelight”.

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