Design
All of our notebooks start with a simple question: what would kids like best? Then we put Odd Goose pencil to paper and start scribbling out ideas.
Materials
Each cover is designed with materials in mind. We dig through thousands of card and foil samples to find the perfect combo to make the style shine.
Printing
We smarten up our scribbles and get the casted in copper here in Britain. Each notebook style gets its own copper plate for printing. We print every one by hand in our studio with our traditional foiling press.
Assembling
Once the covers are printed, each notebook is counted and collated by hand, page by page. The paper and backing boards are cut down to size, and we fix every elastic by hand with our eyelet press. All our machinery is made in Britain and the EU.
Binding
Each notebook goes through the binding machine, one little stack of sheets at a time. First the holes are punched, and then the wire spirals are squeezed in place.
Design
All of our notebooks start with a simple question: what would kids like best? Then we put Odd Goose pencil to paper and start scribbling out ideas.
Materials
Each cover is designed with materials in mind. We dig through thousands of card and foil samples to find the perfect combo to make the style shine.
Printing
We smarten up our scribbles and get the casted in copper here in Britain. Each notebook style gets its own copper plate for printing. We print every one by hand in our studio with our traditional foiling press.
Assembling
Once the covers are printed, each notebook is counted and collated by hand, page by page. The paper and backing boards are cut down to size, and we fix every elastic by hand with our eyelet press. All our machinery is made in Britain and the EU.
Binding
Each notebook goes through the binding machine, one little stack of sheets at a time. First the holes are punched, and then the wire spirals are squeezed in place.
Notepads
➼ Designed by hand, we always like to include little custom drawn elements like hand lettering or smileys!
➼ We print the pages in batches then cut them down before collating them
➼ Each pad comes with a sturdy (nearly 1000gsm!) backing board that we foil print onto (of course)
➼ Pads are glued in small stacks using water-based padding adhesive.
➼ Finally, they are carefully separated with a scalpel and finished with a paper wrap!
Greeting Cards
➼ Our Colour-Your-Own greeting cards all feature custom hand drawn lettering, specially designed as outlines to be fun for colouring in.
➼ Drawn by hand at first, we create each lettering piece as a digital design. This is then made as a copper plate (with the design inverted!)
➼ The plates are printed on our traditional foiling press and the design is debossed into the card using metallic foils.
➼ Finally, each card is scored by hand, ready for your artwork!
Foil Printed Pencils
➼ Each design is carefully drawn so that it will work at a teeny tiny size (there's barely 3mm in height on the side of a pencil!).
➼ We get each design made as a copper plate, ready for mounting to the foiling press.
➼ Each blank pencil goes in a special pencil jig fitted inside the press and is carefully registered to match up with the plate.
➼ One by one, each pencil goes in the press with just the right amount of pressure and dwell time.
➼ If it's a design with 2 colours, we do it all over again for the second colour!
Erasers
➼ Each eraser wrap starts its life as a pencil drawing, whether that's an illustration or custom lettering.
➼ We design the shape of the wrap to suit the artwork and we die cut these ourselves using a range of colourful papers.
➼ Each eraser is printed from a copper plate - with a second print run for the back of the wrap!
➼ Finally, we fold and glue the wrap over each blank eraser.
