Product Development of a Student Notebook in an Industry-University Collaboration 2

Abstract

In this collaborative research between SANKO Company Limited, a printing company, and students from Kyushu University, the second installment of the 2017 Good Design Award notebook series was developed. The second won the 2020 Good Design Award, too. Maintaining a sense of the first notebook series while incorporating new brand strategy requirements was found to be difficult. Modifications to students’ issues with existing notebooks were used to create three different product types (Figure 1). The 3mm LEAF 3⁄4 and the 3mm LEAF 2⁄1 are loose-leaf notebooks with a 3-mm line width in 3⁄4 and 2x B5 size. Combined with the 3mm LEAF 1⁄1 and the 3mm LEAF 1⁄4 sizes of the first installment, they open up a wide range of possibilities for studying. The FILENOTE has sleeves to hold class printouts and can be used as a regular notebook by tearing open the sleeves along the perforations.