A sketch begins as a mark on a flat surface, a temporary record of something that has not yet taken form. For Moleskine’s Detour exhibition, Nendo transformed that familiar stage of the design process into the finished object itself.
The pages of the sketchbook are cut and layered to form a small three-dimensional landscape: a terrain of paper rising from the book, with trees and contours emerging from the accumulation of its leaves. The transformation is deceptively simple. The notebook remains recognizable as a notebook, yet its pages cease to function solely as a surface for drawing and become space in their own right
Nendo describes the sketch as a kind of place—a point to which a designer can return while a project develops, and from which new ideas can emerge..
Notescape makes that metaphor physical. The space between the two-dimensional sketch and the three-dimensional object is no longer merely a stage in the process; it becomes the subject of the work.
Created for Moleskine’s Detour exhibition in 2009, the piece reflects a recurring quality in Nendo’s work: the transformation of an ordinary object through a remarkably restrained intervention. Here, a familiar notebook becomes landscape, archive and model simultaneously—a place contained within the object that traditionally contains the beginning of an idea.
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