Journal
NFT
You, Me and NFT.
Dear friends,
As this year comes to a close, we wanted to make something special for you. Choosing between a calendar, a postcard, a gift card, we realised that wasn’t the thing. We were looking f...
Investors Area
2022 Year Plans. Note for Investors
Dear friends, colleagues and partners,
It’s Fiodor here, founder at Soumkine.
You all know us as makers and creators, obsessed with great design and impeccable quality. This year we mastered paper...
Monthly Digest
Monthly Digest. October Issue
This month we finally relaunched the production of stapled notebooks that was discontinued in 2019, exactly two years ago. Kudos to those who have stayed with us all this time. Thank you guys, we w...
Behind-The-Scenes
The Story Behind Zero-Waste Collection
It looks a bit like a fiction story that turned out to be reality.
The story begins in 2016 when the very first zero-waste notebook first saw the light. A notebook with zero percent wasted space ...
Behind-The-Scenes
Soumkine's Paper Test: Fountain and Ball Pens
The quality of paper was never an option at Soumkine. It has been a built-in default feature in all our notebooks from day one. Today we're proud to introduce you our new 100 gsm paper, as smooth a...
New-In
Featuring Universal Planner 5th Gen: What's New
You may call us hopeless perfectionists, but we believe in the beauty of artistic excellence and the power of small details. Today we are proud to share the best product we've ever made – the 5th g...
How-To
6 Ways to Use Soumkine Universal Planner
Today we take a deeper dive into the virtues of our Soumkine Universal Planner system through N. 407, an A5 size notebook with 160 numbered pages of gridded paper on high-quality Italian paper. Whi...
Behind-The-Scenes
Why it takes 72 hours to make a Soumkine book
The process of making a notebook may seem like a no-brainer. However, it takes us almost three days to produce a Soumkine book. It requires a lot of patience from us, as well as from our dear clie...
How-To
Working from Home in 2021: Nine Lessons since the Pandemic
By Dyana Wing So
The challenge of working from home has evolved. If 2020 was about adapting to the new normal, 2021 is about building on lessons learned to make work more productive, balanced, and...
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