Notebooks. Analogue tools for a digital world
Planning out this post in my Moleskin Notebook At a recent exhibition, hosted in the Queen's University Belfast Naughton Gallery, I was taken by the inclusion of the notebook pictured below in one of the gallery bookcases. It was one of 47 kept by the engineer Peter Rice (1935-1992). The exhibition, entitled Traces of Peter Rice, included dozens of photographs and models of many of the projects worked on by this gifted and talented creative. I needed to know more and purchased the accompanying book, Traces of Peter Rice , Barry, K. (ed) Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2012. Towards the end of the text J. Philip O'Kane has provided an essay, On first looking into Rice's engineering notebooks. It's a fascinating read that has preserved in my mind's eye an enduring image of a simple, black, A4 notebook. Notebook belonging to Peter Rice, engineer On the pages selected for display there are preparatory notes for a video-recorded lecture given to young ...