the top edge of the 32 page books so they can be hung up and leafed through The personal interactions and direct communication with visitors and artists are very important to Florian Zietz Each individual sketchbook is still hand made today Anyone wishing to fill in one themselves can order an empty copy for 25 euros let their fantasy run wild and send it back to Florian Zietz who shares the impressive works with many people around the world a sketchbook for everyone If you can write your name you can sketch too Every person is an artist Zietz emphasizes His tip for the unde cided Nobody should have inhibitions they should just get into it The results of the filled in sketchbooks are impressive All manner of people have immortalized themselves in them from toddlers to octogenarians Anyone can join in even you the beginnings The time was shortly before Christmas 2020 and the sec ond COVID 19 lockdown had brought life outside home to a standstill Florian Zietz was a senior art director at an agency in Hamburg where he still develops packaging designs to this day On Instagram he learned about the major project by New York s Brooklyn Art Library and the friend who sent this link to the sketching fan did not have any idea what she had set in motion Zietz was so fascinated that he launched sketchbook hamburg with in just a few weeks His side art project is participatory by nature and has been devoted to writing sketching gluing collaging and the personal stories behind this since the start all handmade The passionate designer created the company logo and logo stamp folded A3 sheets for the sketchbooks cut the paper to postcard size so it could be taken everywhere and stitched together ten copies using his wife s sew ing machine He gave away the first few sketchbooks to friends and neighbors who filled the blank pages with ink paint glued on paper and other materials and agreed to have their diverse and moving pictures texts and stories published In early 2021 the first filled in sketchbooks went online and there are now about 150 copies that can be mar veled at online The proud founder presents the originals at on site exhibitions for which he punches a hole on coloring a page clears the obstacle of an empty white page 23

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