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Tiny Books are

journals and notebooks big and small, postcards and sketchbooks, anything that can be filled with our thoughts, pictures and stories

a synergy of visual art, text and typography in the form of bite-sized editions replete with the poetry of the everyday

souvenirs filled with the light and scents of the land, and with the many aspects of Greekness, whether contemporary or age-old, seen or unseen

utilitarian or decorative objects meant to add a touch of beauty to our days

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Tiny Books

bite-sized picture books for people young and old

This is a series of small-sized illustrated editions conceived as minute doses of mindful inspiration to be injected into everyday life.

Each Tiny Book in the series hopes to bring together a different creative duo.

Ourovoros

Ourovoros is about how we relate to time and about our place in life’s unbroken cycle; about the fleeting glimpses we are granted in our small and fragile lives of that vast, unending journey.

Ceramic artist and painter Mina Geraskli illustrates a brief narrative meditation on the passage of time by writer Maria Skamaga.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 cm
No. of pages: 40
Language: Greek

Oikeia Entroma

Antigone Neta’s Oikeia Entroma (Familiar Terrors) is an entomology in verse, a poetic guide to the minuscule demons inhabiting our world.

“Our coexistence is a weird thing,” writes Orestis Netas in the book’s preface. “Rarely can one connect with them emotionally. Usually what surfaces is an instinctive sense of horror coupled with awe-beyond-comprehension. Only Antigone has managed to relate to them. How odd!”

Illustrator Thanassis Netas creates a series of drawings to accompany multifarious creative Antigone Neta’s poetic insectology.

Scan the QR code at the back of the book to listen to recorded readings of the poems.

Dimensions: 11 x 14 cm
No. of pages: 40
Language: Greek

the souvenir

the spirit of the land

On Greece and the Greeks

This is a series of medium-sized thematic notebooks aimed at lovers of Greece and the Greeks, native or otherwise, based here or in transit, and at all lovers of literature and the act of writing alike. Their simple yet sophisticated design incorporates a vision of Greece and its people conjured by authors and poets for whom Greece was both muse and home: Lawrence Durrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Henry Miller, Jacques Lacarrière. Their words celebrate Greece’s most unique and memorable qualities. These evocative vignettes sidestep the more common associations popularized by the tourism industry, in favor of the land’s iconic and timeless features. It is precisely that which makes the notebooks the ideal souvenir to take home or the perfect gift for the writer(s) in your life.

photos by Stamos Malachias

48 pages • 16 x 16 cm • soft touch coloured cover • 80 gsm writing paper in white or ivory • blank pages • pin bound

klarakia [sprigs]

Small-sized notebooks redolent of the scents of the Greek countryside: sage, wildflowers and rosemary adorn their covers, which feature earthy tones and highly textured recycled paper.

drawings in pencil by painter and illustrator Alia Zae

100 pages • glued open spine • 17 x 24 + 1 cm • covers in 250 gsm textured paper • 80 gsm writing paper in ivory • blank pages • rounded corners

the sketchbook

draw your heart out

Tiny Books love pencils and crayons, painting charcoals, felt tip pens and assorted markers, water colours and oil pastels, scissors, glue and all sorts of cuttings and, above all, they love the pictures that we make out of them.

Ourania Georgallidis, 1964
Technical pen on paper
Image reprinted from the original

Black spiral bound hardcover sketchbook • 27 x 27 cm
35 sheets of 190gsm Bristol paper

drawings of wildflowers and herbs from the Greek clountryside by painter and illustrator Alia Zae

Coloured spiral bound sketchbook • 42 x 29,7 cm, • 40 sheets of 190gsm Bristol paper • covers in textured 250gsm recycled paper

the notebook

το τετράδιο

polaroid

What a magical medium the polaroid is: you watch as the imprint of time takes shape before your very eyes. Photographer and graphic designer Stamos Malachias shares his nostalgic images with us to create a line of edgy notebooks with a lighthearted vintage air about them.

Photos and design by Stamos Malachias

48 pages • 14 x 21 cm • soft touch coloured covers • 80gsm writing paper in white or ivory • blank pages • pin bound

the jotter

impermanent titbits

Nothing beats a pretty notebook when it comes to jotting down ideas and other fleeting stuff: to-do lists, sudden insights, things to be grateful for, doodles, sketches of people sitting across from you on the metro, a fragment of everyday talk worth remembering. Visually compelling, sustainable and as light as a feather, the TB Jotter will take in any and all of the impermanent tidbits that compose the experience of the everyday.

Photos and design by Stamos Malachias

100 pages • open spine • 10 x 16,5 + 5 cm • playful covers in various types of premium textured paper • 80gsm writing paper in white or ivory • blank pages

the journal

Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.

Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook

narratives of the self

The Tiny Books journal has been created with writers, diarists and other creative intellects in mind. It is aimed at all those who not only find solace in creative self-expression, but also value the act of writing per se and its traditional tools. Its understated elegance hopes to give pride of place to the written word and to make content – your content – the center of attention.
The Tiny Books journal series is also conceived as a space to showcase the work of different Greek graphic designers and illustrators. Individual diaries in the series are to be designed by young up-and-coming creatives hopefully serving to introduce their work to a wider audience.
Last but not least, the series is an eco-conscious project using acid-free paper and recycled binding materials in line with contemporary sustainability standards.

matt lamination

300 pages • 14 x 21 cm • 3 sections • soft touch coloured covers • 80gsm writing paper in white or ivory • adhesive endpapers in vivid colours • bound by hand, flexible binding opens 360° • rounded corners

cover printed on premium recycled paper

11 x 22 cm
cover printed on premium textured paper

custom-made

by TinyBooks

Tiny Books work with cultural institutions, commercial stores or private individuals to create bespoke stationery and related paper products.

Contact us so we can work together on realising your exclusive project.

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150 pages • 14 x 21 cm
bound by hand • flexible binding opens 360°

notebook inspired by the dovecots on the Greek island of Tinos
48 pages • 14 x 16 cm • covers in premium textured paper • pin bound

about

Tiny Books is a project dreamed up by two longtime friends, a printer and a writer/translator, who share a passion for narrative and a special affection for beautiful, edgy editions.
They’ve always had a soft spot for journals and diaries as both repositories of human thought and utilitarian objects of art and design.
Their aim is to collaborate with fellow dreamers to cater to the many inspired thinkers, feelers and writers out there in all their wondrous diversity.