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Back to School: 14 Things for Design-Conscious School Kids 



Back to school, back to reality. It?s September. It?s that time of year when kids up and down the land don fresh, clean uniforms and shiny, polished shoes. Backpacks and satchels are bursting with books and stationery, their weight adding to that dragging of feet.Of course smart kids are those with a keen eye for design, secure in the knowledge that quality encourages commitment and improves overall performance and satisfaction. Why not teach kids that less is more and better, and that good design improves focus and quality of life.NOTEBOOKSNotebooks sort and store our ideas, thoughts, memories and feelings. Physical and tangible, a real notebook will always upstage any gimmicky smartphone app. A good notebook will be hardwearing and stylish?a thing of beauty that looks sharp on any table or desk.Notebooks by NuunaNuuna notebooks are made of Swedish premium paper, thread-stitched and bound in smooth bonded leather or jeans label material. Covetable and collectable, they are cool design items in their own right.Notebooks by Nuuna. Photos © Nuuna by Brandbook.Above image, clockwise from top left: Minimal in style, the YES and NO notebook might help answer questions and act as a voting card. YES marks the front and NO marks the back | A rather purist notebook, WRITE or WRONG?you decide | Kandinsky, the Russian painter and theorist, suggested ?everything starts from a dot.? Putting pen or pencil to paper, EVERYTHING STARTS FROM A DOT and drives away the fear of a blank page | ...
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