Closed a5 Interview Journal standing on a plain surface, a tiled illustration field on the cover, a cream label plate near the middle, a narrow binding strip down the spine.

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Interview Journal

One page for the interview, and the page after it for what you did not ask.

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Specification

Type: Journal
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 100
Leaves: 50
Sheets: 25
Signatures: 5 × 20pp
Spine: 5.72 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 7.14 mm · 20.25 pt · 9/32 in
Rows per page: 24
Dating: Undated

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Every interview gets a page of its own: who, when, and what they actually said, in whatever order it came out rather than the order you had planned to ask it. The page facing it is ruled and empty, for the question you thought of on the way home.

The pairing exists because the best question in most interviews arrives after the recorder is off, and there is nowhere to put it if the record already closed on the last answer given. Ruled pages further back hold the longer write-up, once the notes need turning into something readable.

It will not remember what someone said better than you did. It only gives the version you wrote at the time somewhere to survive.

What is inside

Interview: 60pp; One page per interview, followed by a ruled page for whatever you did not ask.
Notes: 30pp; For the longer write-up once an interview needs turning into something readable.
Reference: 10pp; The owner page and reference tables at the back.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Interview Journal laid out as cards: an interview page, a follow-up ruled page, a notes page, a divider, and the owner page. — Five pages taken from the print file: an interview page, its follow-up ruled page, a notes page, a section divider, and the front owner page. The pairing is the whole idea: the follow-up page catches the question that only occurs to you once the interview is already over.

Detail card listing the Interview Journal contents: paired interview and follow-up pages, a notes section, and reference pages. — A long run of paired pages: one for the interview itself, one ruled page after it for what you did not ask. A separate notes section for the longer write-up, and an owner page with reference tables at the back.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Interview Journal — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Interview Journal — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Interview Journal — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Interview Journal — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Interview Journal — World map

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