8/28/2023 0 Comments Seawhite sketch books![]() Seawhite graph paper pads – new additions to the range for summer 2015 – packaging (covers) designed by Toop Studio. We spent about 10 years there, and then decided to come back to Sussex again – to Partridge Green, and that’s when the business really took off. It lasted into the early 1980s – the site had to be developed, so we went to Worcestershire to carry on making them. This is back in the mid to late seventies.Īnd how long did you work from Waterloo Street? There was only about three of four of us. Well, there was Julian, who still works in our Sales department today, myself and my father and my brother Nick. We were already supplying PVA glue and plastic for vacuum forming to several educational establishments – and we did also supply paper to a few of them, so it was a natural progression to start offering bound sketchbooks. I’m probably the least artistic person in the company. So why did you move from adhesives to sketchbooks? Were any of you artists? The first ever Seawhite sketchbook (right) was based on a hardback plastic encapsulated auto manual.Īnd then the book bindery got into trouble, and we were selling a few more of these sketchbooks by then, so we bought the company. I think the first customer we had actually was the Sir John Cass School of Art, which is now part of London Met. One day my father said to them ‘could you make us a book with blank paper in it as a sketchbook’ – which they did – and he went to London and sold it to people like Central St. So our connection was we supplied adhesive to them. ![]() Yeah, in the 70s, those hard-backed manuals, I remember. They used to produce car manuals – do you remember when people used to do DIY on their own cars? Shaun Tobin (MD of Seawhite): Well Seawhite is a family company. We started in Brighton in 1973 as an adhesive supplier. My father was supplying PVA glue to a book bindery in Waterloo Street in Hove. Shadric Toop: So tell me how it all started then… Or find a cool yet creative way to see 21 different ways sharpie markers can be used.Seawhite Black Paper Pads – Cover designed by Toop Studio Looking for more inspiration? Check out our blog for an array of creativity with our guide to the best-coloured pencils to help your designs pop on paper. ![]() Discover our great range of notepads & books or for budding artists, our drawing pads are an essential artistic staple. Searching for a different type of pad? At Ryman® we have a great range of pads & notebooks to help you explore your ideas on paper. Shopping for someone else and looking for the perfect gift for a budding artist? Give the gift of a sketch pad! Kit them out with some high-quality art pens and drawing tools. Anyway, sometimes the beauty is in the mistakes! At Ryman® UK’s competitive prices, you don’t have to create masterpieces and be a perfectionist every single time. So whether you're a professional artist or you enjoy getting creative in your spare time, have a look through our collection of art sketchbooks. Our sketchbooks are also available in a variety of sizes, including A2, A3, A4 and A5. It’s versatile across inks, watercolours, pastels, paints, and pens, so you can explore your creativity with the correct tools and mediums for you. Our range includes these choices, but also paper quality from between 110gsm right the way up to 300gsm, so your artist sketchpad can support the most creative mediums you sketch, splat, and draw across it. They usually contain blank pages, bound together either by spiral binding, hardback, or soft binding. A sketchbook is where your reality can be translated into beautiful soft line art, like sketching in a peaceful outdoor spot, or where you can create your own reality through design and imagination. The paper is thick and high-quality, meaning that pencils, pens, and watercolours glide over it without marring the layers and sheets beneath. Sketchbooks, otherwise known as sketch pads or drawing pads, are used most commonly by artists, architects, and students.
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