Arbos Mecum Draft Journal

Arbos designs journals to stimulate the desire to draw and write while also being the perfect place to write down your thoughts and ideas. All Arbos products are made entirely from eco-sustainable materials.

The Arbos Mecum Draft Journal is made in Italy from recycled materials and pays tribute to one of the great typographers and font inventor in history: Giambattista Bodoni. Arbos uses the Bodoni font and the Bodoni binding technique in the Mecum draft journal. The Bodoni binding technique gives this pocket-sized draft journal a superflat opening so you’ll get 30% more writing space than a normal notebook! You can easily slip the Mecum Draft journal into your back pocket, purse, jacket or backpack. It features a recycled leather cover made of Ricuoio®, a material made with offcuts from natural leather and mixed with natural fats, tannins and natural rubber latex. The notebook cover is available in Havana Tan or Black. The Havana Tan Cover has a Red elastic strap to secure your notebook pages while in transit. The Black Cover has a Grey elastic strap. Each draft journal has 160 blank pages of 100% recycled 80gsm paper. There is a patented cardboard pocket at the back for storage and each journal has an exclusive elastic looped pen holder bookmark attached.

Notebook Specifications

Size: 4” x 6.25”
Sheet Count: 80 (160 pages)
Paper Style: Blank

About the MECUM Collection

The MECUM project offers notebooks as useful tools for writing that can meet the demands of a rising environmental awareness of modern man. These are contemporary notebooks, but bearers of by-gone values starting from the name itself. Mecum comes from the Latin cum me and refers to something that you always carry with you. The expression echoes the famous words spoken by the Greek philosopher, Stilpone (4th century BC) to Demetrius Poliorcetes who had just conquered and destroyed the city of Megara. He asked the philosopher why he was leaving the city without taking anything with him. “Omnia mea mecum porto”, (I carry all that is mine with me) replied Stilpone. No better words can define how many people nowadays, through choice or necessity, “set off” taking only their knowledge with them, the desire to learn and to achieve something.

About Arbos

Arbos was founded in 1988 in the province of Vicenza and specializes in the production of paper and recycled material articles for use in the office, as gifts and in hobbies. Arbos demonstrates its firm commitment to environmental protection and the promotion of culture throughout its products. Their slogan is: creating “stories” before creating products. Arbos uses 100% recycled paper from European certified production for the pages of all its products. The paper is produced by Arjowiggins in compliance with the most stringent environmental criteria. The paper mill never uses chemical substances to whiten the pulp during production. When Arbos says “beautiful Italian stationery”, they stress their commitment to the environment, their passion for paper and their love for Italy!