Calepino News

LIMITED EDITION ALTERATION – CALEPINO X LA CASSE

 

CALEPINO was born with the objective of offering these notebooks that were used
once in many workshops.
So, for the production of the first limited edition of his pocket notebooks,
it was natural that Calepino worked with a team from this background.
  
For this limited edition, named “ALTERATION”,
this is LA CASSE, a graphic design studio from Nantes,
that imagines and customizes the set of 3 notebooks with Calepino.
Print manually in letterpress,
a true craftsmanship printer for a single object.

 

In this artistic collaboration, Calepino and the workshop from Nantes played
with the french word “casse” (originally, the storage box for typographic characters)
to compose four different lllustrations:
The “casse”TAGNE, the “casse”QUETTE”, the RAS”casse” and the CAR”casse.
 
Only 500 sets of 3 books are available for sale.
The three different covers and carrying case are manually printed sheet after sheet.
The inside pages of the books are printed with light gray lines.
A single fabrication numbered, no re-release.
Everything is hand packed in an illustrated slipcase for the occasion.
 
When these 500 sets of 3 books are gone,
there won’t be more. To reserve your / your copies, follow this link ::
http://en.calepino.fr/s/20259_134424_pocket-notebook-alteration

 

 

The movie that describes the production process for “ALTERATION” can be watched here:
http://vimeo.com/user11558530/fabrication-alteration
Video created by Gaetan Chagneaud, music “Another’s Sorrow” composed and played by Anne Berry (Album release soon). Pictures from Moon & Souenellen.
Thanks for their time, Merci à eux pour leur temps, their kindness and their investment on this project.
Thanks to La Casse & the team from the Musée de l’imprimerie, to François & Allais team, to Jenn & Mike, to Moon & Souenellen, to Placid & Muzo.

Briefs for May

A first brief to reassure those who are waiting the limited edition “ALTERATION” in collaboration with the graphic workshop La Casse.
The release and the sale is still scheduled for this month of May. To be honest, the 500 pieces are already printed and bound. We are just finishing the manual numbering of the boxes, the pictures, the video, and I’m preparing the announcement of the pre-sale for the newsletter subscribers, who will be mailed, for sure, before the end of the month.

Not bother to send emails to book a copy before the official release: it is not possible. Instead, leave your email in the newsletter form to be notified in priority.

 

A second brief to announce several new addresses where you can now find CALEPINO:

 

In addition, four projects of Calepino custom notebooks have just been finished. Special productions for French brands, for an international magazine in partnership with a New York artist, and an event which takes place next week in Nantes. The presentation will be on the blog soon.

ALTERATION – Teaser

 

CALEPINO collaborates with the french graphic team from “La Casse” for the creation and manufacture of the first Calepino limited edition.

“ALTERATION” is the first edition of the pocket notebooks that are created manually in letterpress printing.
Sheet after sheet, each cover is unique.
Each case is numbered.
500 copies only

 

Pre-sale to subscribers soon: calepino.fr/newsletter

Leaving the workshop in May 2012.

Project A……… : following

A quick note to give you some news before the weekend,
and also I must confess to maintain the suspense.
 
Always working hard on this project ……. A.
The new project in collaboration between Calepino and a workshop in Nantes.
The manual printing step is nearly completed.
There are still many steps before its release. But that advance rather well.
For now, it is more difficult to show too many pictures without revealing already the subject.
But be aware that it is about fish, hat, fight and old cars … hope it helps right?

 

Project A……… : D-Day

Today.
10 AM.
Workshop.
Nantes.
Vandercook n°4 OK.
Cardboard loaded.
Manual printing.
La Casse is ready.
The projet A…….. is on track.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

In passing…

Very little news on the blog lately. But it does not prevent Calepino to work hard. Big week in perspective. While some of you are on holidays, Calepino started a colaboration with the graphic studio LA CASSE to produce a very special edition … Some photos by Thursday to keep you informed from the workshop.

 

Moreover, as you may have read elsewhere, after Dallas, New Yok and Washington, the notebooks are also available online in the U.S. through the webshop VettedShop.com. Beautiful packshot pictures made for the occasion.

 

Calepino et Vetted.com

 

Discover also an article on the blog of Monsieur Marcel (in french) and an interview on La Belle Echoppe (in english).

In March, Two=Three

From now until the end of March only.
Buy two of anything from Calepino
and we’ll ship you three of what you purchased.
The third one’s on us.    

Use the promo code TWO=THREE on the cart page.  

Valid only for orders on the website,
until the 31th of March 2012.

Calepino Fountain Pen Test

A member of Styloplume.net, a forum for enthusiasts of writing inks and fountain pens, decided to test the quality of books and writing with pen and ink on Calepino’s recycled paper. The entirety of this test can be read directly on the forum: Test Calepino fountain pen (In french).

Thanks for his feedback, hoping that there may be others. If you need the translation, let me know.
And you, did you use fountain pen on your Calepino? your feedback?