Notebook N.66 & N.88

Prestigious Notebooks for Your Legacy
Notebook N.66 and Notebook N.88 are prestigious, meticulously crafted journals and sketchbooks provided exclusively for free to Professional Edition A' Design Award laureates who attend our highly iconic and prestigious Gala Night and Awards Ceremony, La Notte Premio A', an event that itself is free to attend for all Professional Edition laureates who confirm their participation in a timely manner. Notebooks N.66 and/or N.88 are also available for those who order their A' Design Award Winner’s Kits, a treasure trove filled with recognition and exclusive memorabilia such as hardcover yearbooks, framed certificates and trophies. Commissioned by Museo del Design and A' Design Award & Competition, and brought to life through a thoughtful collaboration with the renowned Italian OMC² Design Studios, Notebooks N.66 & N.88 were born out of our genuine respect and admiration for laureates and their original ideas that help make the world a better place with superior products and projects that benefit and advance society, and driven by our commitment to making even the smallest details of your A' Design award experience truly special, we have created these notebooks to reflect your excellence. Recognizing that a majority of standard notebooks on the market lacked the elegance, portability and archival quality worthy of capturing your groundbreaking ideas as top designers, creative artists, star architects, and leading brands and engineers, we chose to create entirely new, compact yet luxurious notebooks measuring an auspicious 88 × 88 mm, with rounded edges on one side, square on the other side, in a distinctive square format, and with refined Italian aesthetics, to serve you wherever you go. Notebook N.66, featuring silky-smooth, archival-quality, acid-free, museum-grade 165gsm paper, was designed specifically for capturing written concepts, while Notebook N.88, enriched by sumptuous 300gsm acid-free, 100% pure cotton paper crafted via traditional cylinder-mould methods, was created to document visual sketches, paintings, and designs. Each notebook comes elegantly wrapped in luxurious Satin-finish wrapping paper and featuring a black paper with gold-lettered inscriptions, adding an elevated sense of ceremony and sophistication every time laureates open them. Museo del Design's Notebooks N.66 and N.88 embody subtle yet potent markers of your status, enhance creativity by being present when you need them thanks to their ergonomics and compact form, and preserve your giant ideas as legacy-defining artifacts for future generations and reinforce your daily confidence by continually reconnecting you with your jury-recognized creative excellence. Notebook N.66 and Notebook N.88 reflect our deep reverence for laureates' talent, serving as portable symbols of achievement, sophisticated conversation starters and timeless heirlooms that amplify professional distinction, making every interaction, idea, concept and sketch unforgettable. We created these notebooks because we couldn't let ourselves to gift you a standard notebook as an esteemed A' Design Award laureate, we wanted you to have well designed artificats that can carry the weight and grandeur of your ideas.

Sophisticated Creativity, Prestige and Power of Notebooks N.66 & N.88
Museo del Design's exclusive Winners' Notebooks N.66 and N.88 offer A' Design Award laureates a distinctive combination of elite signaling, creative efficiency and cultural sophistication. Crafted from archival-grade materials and featuring an elegantly unique square format, our notebooks are ready for your creativity and award-winning ideas while also serving as subtle status markers that spark conversations, facilitate elite networking and reinforce professional credibility. We have designed the Notebooks N.66 & N.88 to help you effortlessly document and create award-winning ideas, preserve your concepts, designs and thoughts for legacy-building and to provide you with a daily ritualistic reinforcement of your creative excellence and success.

• Elite Status Manifestation
  A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks serve as sophisticated conversation starters that allow laureates to naturally mention their award achievement when asked about Museo del Design's Notebook N.66 or N.88's distinctive format and refined aesthetics. According to Signaling Theory in economics, subtle luxury markers that require cultural knowledge to decode create more powerful status signals than explicit branding. When clients notice and inquire about these uniquely elegant notebooks, laureates gain an organic opportunity to share their A' Design Award story, building credibility through understated sophistication.
  
  
• Creative Flow Optimization
  Notebook N.66's 165gsm museum-grade paper and Notebook N.88's 300gsm cotton pages, combined with A' Design Award's thoughtfully designed 88 × 88mm pocket dimensions, remove friction from idea capture, enabling seamless transition from thought to documentation. Cognitive Load Theory demonstrates that reducing extraneous cognitive load through optimized tools allows more mental resources to be devoted to germane creative processing. In practical terms, these perfectly-sized, silky-smooth notebooks make capturing your award-worthy ideas so effortless that laureates can focus entirely on creativity. Simply write down your ideas when they come to you, also because the Notebooks N.66 & N.88 are very easy to carry.
  
  
• Exclusive Community Symbol
  Only A' Design Award Professional Edition laureates possess Museo del Design's Notebook N.66 & N.88 (in addition to of course discerning audiences who buy the notebooks directly from the museum), creating instant recognition and connection points within elite design circles when winners encounter fellow laureates and discerning audiences carrying A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks. Social Identity Theory explains how shared exclusive symbols strengthen in-group identification and facilitate rapid trust-building among high-status community members. This means laureates instantly connect with other winners and design oriented audiences worldwide, opening doors to collaborations and partnerships.
  
  
• Innovation Time Capsules
  A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks feature archival-quality materials that ensure your sketches and concepts which are captured in Notebook N.66 & Notebook N.88 remain pristine for decades, building a permanent record of yoour creative evolution, and also functioning heirloom items. The Generation Effect in cognitive psychology shows that self-generated content is remembered significantly better than consumed content, making physical documentation crucial for long-term knowledge retention. Essentially, every idea laureates sketch today becomes part of their professional legacy, perfectly preserved for future books, exhibitions, or simply proving "I thought of it first, and I have written it down too."
  
  
• Daily Excellence Reinforcement
  Each time laureates open A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks included within Winner Kits, Museo del Design's Notebook N.66 & N.88 reconnect winners with validated achievement, maintaining creative confidence throughout professional practice. Self-Efficacy Theory demonstrates that regular exposure to symbols of past success enhances, refreshes and reinforces belief in one's capabilities, leading to improved performance in challenging tasks. In everyday terms, using your exclusive notebooks gives you a daily confidence boost, helping you tackle bigger challenges and pitch bolder ideas.
  
  
• Cognitive Organization System
  A' Design Award provides Notebook N.66 for written concepts and Notebook N.88 for visual sketches, creating a physical taxonomy through Museo del Design's specialized notebooks enhances idea retrieval and creative clarity, simply put, you don't need to remember things when you can just write them down, and even better, if you write it down you remember it better. The Method of Loci principle shows that spatial organization of information significantly improves memory recall and cognitive processing efficiency. This systematic approach means laureates can find and develop their best ideas faster, turning scattered thoughts into organized, actionable concepts. Notebooks are different from typing in a computer or a mobile device, with haptic feedback and sensation of touch, as well as moving your hand, you are more involved in creating these texts.
  
  
• Ritual Creation Tool
  A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks feature gold-lettered black paper wrapping that laureates ceremoniously remove from Notebook N.66 & Notebook N.88, establishing behavioral triggers for enhanced creative performance. Classical Conditioning principles demonstrate that consistent ritual behaviors paired with creative work can trigger flow states and enhanced performance through learned associations. By creating a special moment each time laureates start using these notebooks, their brains learn to switch into peak creative mode automatically. Moreover, because the notebooks are easy to carry, you can simply take them everywhere and make it yet another ritual to immediately write down your ideas, capturing award winner ideas of tomorrow today.
  
  
• Cultural Capital Builder
  Museo del Design's collaboration with Italian OMC² Design Studios for A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks communicates sophisticated taste through Notebook N.66 & N.88's refined aesthetics and craftsmanship appreciation. Bourdieu's Cultural Capital Theory explains how aesthetic choices and material culture signal social position and facilitate access to elite professional networks. When laureates choose tools that reflect fine Italian design excellence, they signal to clients and peers that they operate at very high levels of aesthetic sophistication, in simple terms our notebooks help you communicate your elegance.
  
  
• Portable Prestige Platform
  A' Design Award engineered Notebook N.66 & Notebook N.88 with compact 88 × 88mm dimensions ensuring Museo del Design's notebooks accompany laureates everywhere, creating intrigue through their distinctive square format and refined aesthetics. The Mere Exposure Effect shows that frequent visibility of unique design objects increases curiosity and positive associations in professional contexts. Because of our notebooks' rather interesting and uncommon square proportions and museum branding spark questions, laureates create natural conversation openings about their design philosophy and achievements.
  
  
• Content Generation Asset
  A' Design Award's Winners' Notebooks provide rich origin stories about Museo del Design's commissioning process for Notebook N.66 & N.88, delivering endless material for laureates' social media, case studies and thought leadership. Narrative Transportation Theory demonstrates that compelling origin stories create emotional engagement and enhance brand memorability among audiences. Every time laureates share the story behind their exclusive notebooks, they create engaging content that reinforces their award-winning status and design philosophy. Moreover, when you want to impress clients and consumers, you can instantly start writing down ideas next to them, creating intrigue and curiosity. You can use the sketches you have made on your Notebook N.88 and share them at social to create more content and attract people to your brand.
  
  
• Professional Differentiation Device
  While your competitors may use generic notebooks, A' Design Award laureates wield exclusive Museo del Design's Notebook N.66 & N.88 whose distinctive square format and sophisticated minimalism communicate refined Italian taste, but most importantly our recognition and respect for the designer's ideas which must be perfectly documented. The Von Restorff Effect in psychology shows that distinctive items in a homogeneous context are remembered more readily, enhancing professional memorability. In a sea of rectangular notebooks at meetings, laureates stand out with their unique square notebooks whose evident quality, special bounding, leather-style cover make a difference and make you memorable to clients and colleagues as professionals who value exceptional design details.
  
  
• Legacy Documentation System
  A' Design Award's selection of museum-grade preservation quality for Notebook N.66 & Notebook N.88 transforms daily notes captured in your notebooks into future exhibition materials and historical records. Indeed, Museo del Design may potentially organize exhibits featuring notebooks, and may accept full notebooks of sketches as a deposit for our permanent achieves. Endowment Effect research reveals that people value objects more highly when they contribute to personal legacy, motivating better documentation practices. Knowing your sketches will last forever inspires laureates to document more thoughtfully, creating an invaluable archive of their creative journey for future generations.
  
  

Extraordinary Notebook N.66 & Notebook N.88 for Your Grand Ideas
A' Design Award and Competition provides Professional Edition laureates with the coveted and complete A' Design Prize which contains over 188+ benefits, services, tools and physical items that are designed to support laureates communicating, leveraging, utilizing and using their excellence in design, as confirmed by our grand jury panel of established academics, influential press members, and experienced design professionals, where each entry first goes through a preliminary round for presentation standardization and then each work is voted anonymously on pre-established criteria following blind-peer review process, and then scores are normalized to select truly the world’s best designs in a meritocratic way, helping laureates achieve a true independent verification of their good design which can be useful for gaining business and commercial advantages. Among these advantages which include our grand number of public relations, promotions, advertising services for laureates, in addition to tools that the laureates can use to enhance their own publicity and advertising efforts, A' Design Award presents Professional Edition laureates who join the gala nights and awards ceremony (It is free to join our gala night and awards ceremony if you are a Professional Edition laureate and if you confirm your participation timely – A' Design Award & Competition sends an exclusive invitation to all eligible Professional Edition Laureates to attend its gala night and awards ceremony) a very rich “Physical Components of the A' Design Prize” which we generally refer to as the “Winners’ Kit” at stage, if you are unable to attend our awards ceremony you can also order the kit for delivery, if you are a Professional Edition Laureate. Within the A' Design Award’s Winner Kit, there is a microcosmos, a world of items that await you. Among the items included in A' Design Award’s Winner Kit, of course we believe the most important items are the hardcover yearbook of best designs of the year, the printed and framed certificate of excellence (as well as additional team member certificates – based on account type), and then of course the A' Design Award’s Omega Particle award trophy in black luxury box, which create the holy trio, added to these, the A' Design Award Winner Kit brings you many other gift items such as the Gold Desk Flag, Pens and Notebooks. We wanted to gift notebooks because designers, artists, architects, creators, brand managers, engineers have unique brains that constantly come with ideas, ideas that are worthy to remember, ideas that are worthy to note, ideas that worth investing. Given this, we had started including pens and notepads in early winner kits from since 2008, our aim was that the laureates use our notepads and pens to write down their award-winning ideas, as well as to use them to take notes in our events, exhibitions and happenings. While we do that, we, the organizers of A' Design Award was not very pleased with the current status of available merchandise on the market, for us the notebooks and notepads that were available were too big, and would not fit a pocket, however if it does not fit a pocket, and if it cannot be carried together with you easily, then why to have it in the first place? Given this, A' Design Award in collaboration with Museo del Design commissioned the Italian OMC² Design Studios to develop notebooks that could better serve winner architects, designers, engineers, creatives, managers, CEOs in style. We wanted to create a notebook first that is prestigious to have, so we designed it to have a leather style black cover with minimal detailing, we have made the edges rounded so they can be easily inserted to your pocket, we made the binding unique so that it can open easily and give you access to its pages so that you can write your ideas and thoughts easily, moreover we made sure to use high-quality archival museum-grade silky smooth paper that is simply a pleasure to write, giving you a haptic feeling of uttermost elegance, refinement and elegance. We have designed the Notebook N.66 for taking notes, and the Notebook N.88 for making drawings, sketches and paintings. We have kept it compact so that it can be easily carried and not heavy, we have also used 88 × 88 mm pages for both the Notebook N.66 and Notebook N.88 to bring you luck, prosperity and affluence, as well as to ensure it can fit when the cover space is included within a container that is 10 × 10 cm, which is important for being able to store the notebooks, indeed we have also developed a box that you can use to keep your filled notebooks. Then we have designed its packaging in great detail so that they could be kept clean and ready for your use whenever you need it. We put our love, our feelings into these notebooks to give you memorabilia that is worthy of your magnificent ideas, we wanted you to have a notebook that is designed for you as someone who helps make the world a better place with superior products and projects that benefit and advance society. We have created these notebooks to reflect your excellence and to permanently record your ideas, concepts and designs, which would help us in future to make the world a better place. We have created these notebooks to help create awareness and understanding of your good designs. We wanted to immortalize, document and savor your ideas with our high-quality notebooks. That’s why instead of buying notebooks from other brands, we created the Notebooks N.66 and N.88 ground up to serve your needs. Notebook N.66 and/or Notebook N.88 are included in A' Design Award Winner Kits as a token of gratitude, and we are happy to share them with you. We hope you use our Notebooks N.66 and N.88 to write down your world changing ideas, breakthroughs and future concepts, and we are looking forward to see your ideas realized, dreams come true. If you are not a winner, and you desire one of these prestigious notebooks, you can potentially obtain them from Museo del Design – the museum of design’s museum shop and select online retailers. Notebook N.66 features 165 gsm pages while Notebook N.88 features 300 gsm pages. Notebook N.88 (MDD-N88-00198168389409 UPC-A ) uses acid free %100 cotton 300 gsm hot pressed satin smooth texture paper. Notebook N.66 (MDD-N66-00198168420911 UPC-A) also uses acid free, 165 gsm paper with smooth texture, slightly warmer in color to give an emotional touch.

Branding of Notebook N.66 & N.88
Refined with Italian Design, here is what each Notebook’s branding Feature, these are the Flavor Texts or item lore if you will that explains and gives hints on what's waiting for you, we have noted them on gold letters with black paper that you unwrap when you first use the notebooks, giving a sense of luxury and elegance that you truly deserve.

A' Design Award & Competition is pleased to gift eligible laureates with premium notebooks to capture your creative ideas at the peak of their inspiration with an easy to carry journal featuring museum-grade acid-free pages.