SAVE THE OCEANS · SINCE 2017
Sustainable notebooks
from unprinted
surplus paper.
■ Mission N° 01 — Rescue
Hi, I’m
Emelie.
A few years ago, I founded Save the Oceans to support Sea Shepherd’s marine conservation work.
The inner pages are made entirely from unprinted surplus paper from print shops; the covers use Gmund factory surplus board. Without direct reuse, these sheets would go for paper recycling. Printing uses Risograph and letterpress techniques on Gmund Colors.
With every notebook, you support Sea Shepherd’s marine conservation work.
“For every notebook sold in the shop, we donate €5 to Sea Shepherd.”
THE EDITIONS
Five notebooks.
71% ocean.
Letterpress covers on Gmund Colors · Third edition: pale pink Gmund Cycle 120 g inner pages, approx. 60 sheets (120 pages) · 200 pcs
N° 01
Delphin
Blue on cream
N° 02
Octopus
Magenta on cream
N° 03
Wal
Red on cream
N° 04
Seepferdchen
Green on cream
N° 05
Schildkröte
Orange on cream
THE NOTEBOOK
One book.
Five ocean inhabitants.
Each notebook has a two-colour letterpress cover on Gmund Colors — Delphin, Octopus, Wal, Seepferdchen or Schildkröte. A coloured belly band frames the statement “71 % of the earth's surface are covered with oceans — take care of them!”
The third edition has pale pink inner pages made from Gmund Cycle 120 g, approx. 60 sheets (120 pages). All paper is rescued surplus: Gmund factory surplus board for the covers and unprinted surplus paper from print shops for the inner pages.
- ◆Cover: letterpress on Gmund Colors
- ◆Risograph endpapers
- ◆Third edition: pale pink Gmund Cycle 120 g · approx. 60 sheets (120 pages)
- ◆Magnetic closure
- ◆Ribbon bookmark
- ◆€5 per shop sale to Sea Shepherd
MAKING OF
How a book
is made.
From a stack of sorted rescued paper to the finished notebook — each book takes several steps to make. Selecting paper, letterpress printing, folding, stitching, trimming and attaching the magnet. Made in a workshop, not on an assembly line.
ORIGINS
Gmund
Award 2017.
In 2017, I submitted my school project for the Gmund Award for Uncoated Paper Printer of the Year. The prize was a whole pallet of surplus paper from paper production.
That paper became the first book blocks for the Save the Oceans notebooks — the beginning of everything now known as Papierretter.
Thanks to Gmund Papier.
Buy a book.
Support marine conservation.
The third edition is now available to pre-order in the shop — limited to 200 copies, with pre-order prices until 15 November 2026.
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