Plain Lab · notebook
Two-Point Perspective Pad
A ground grid converging on two vanishing points, thirty-five rows to the page at a 4.94 mm pitch.
Price
from Rp 58.000
Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.
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Specification
- Type
- Notebook
- 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
- perspective2
- Ruling pitch
- 4.94 mm · 14.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 35
- Dating
- Undated
Build it
Rp 58,000
Two points on a horizon line decide where every line in the drawing is allowed to go. Drawn freehand, the lines that are supposed to meet at one of those points rarely do. A ground grid fixes both points first and rules every line toward one of them.
That grid runs 4.94 mm to a row, thirty-five of them from top to bottom, tight enough to block in a small object before a single freehand line goes over it. Ten plain pages sit behind the eighty gridded ones, for the measurements and notes a converging line cannot carry.
The two points only fix where a line is allowed to go. They do not decide what gets drawn between them, and a badly judged object still looks exactly as badly judged as it would on blank paper.
What is inside
- Sketch pages
- 80pp
- Ground grid converging on two vanishing points, at a 4.94 mm pitch, thirty-five rows to the page.
- Notes
- 10pp
- Plain pages for measurements a converging line cannot carry.
- Reference and furniture
- 10pp
- Conversion tables, emergency numbers, and the pen test leaf that closes the block.
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 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?
The PDF of this book.
We do not sell the design or the PDF. Download it free, with no conditions at all, not even tracking. What we sell is the book, a real object that is genuinely useful and can help your life.
Download PDF PDF · 100 pages · 0.4 MB
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- One-Point Perspective PadAlso in Plain Lab
- Storyboard NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Hex Grid NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Semi-Log NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
How does the grid work?
Every line rules toward one of two vanishing points on a horizon line, rather than being drawn freehand toward a guessed point.
How fine is the grid?
4.94 mm, thirty-five rows down the page.
Are there plain pages too?
Yes, ten, for notes and measurements.
Is it dated?
No.
How big is it?
A5, 148 x 210 mm, 100 pages, 5.72 mm across the spine.
A shadow is always affected by the colour of the surface on which it is cast.
Price
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