“Patchwork Diary” is a diary for the night. Makuake pre-sale begins. Organize your feelings for the day and promote quality sleep/Ito Notebook
*Ito Notebook Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 20, 2024
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“Patchwork Diary” is a diary for the night. Makuake pre-sale begins. Organize your feelings for the day and promote quality sleep/Ito Notebook
Ito Notebook Co., Ltd., which has been engaged in notebook
manufacturing and OEM for 70 years (Head office: Nagoya City: President and CEO: Ryohito Ito)
Prior to the release of the night-only diary “Patchwork Diary,” the company (hereinafter “our company”) will begin pre-sale at 10:00 a.m. on August 21, 2024 (Tuesday) on the support purchasing service “Makuake.”
* Patchwork Diary is a night diary where you write down your feelings for the day at the end of the day. *
The purpose is to encourage you to organize your emotions by writing down things you enjoyed and feelings that were confusing, which will lead to better quality sleep.
■Project page (“Makuake”, a support purchase service for unique items and experiences)
Project name: Solve your day’s confusion by sorting out your emotions. “Patchwork Diary” diary to help you sleep peacefully
Publication period: August 20, 2024 (Tuesday) to October 15, 2024 (Tuesday) *Shipment will start at any time after the project ends [URL] https://www.makuake.com/project/yumekirock02/
[Features of Patchwork Diary]
There are no restrictions on how you can write on the diary page, which allows you to map the events and emotions of the day using the size of the circles, and you can record your emotions with letters or colors.
Diary page with connected circles with a diameter of 1.2cm
Circle the feelings you have written about today’s events.
* [Patchwork diary commercialization background] *
According to the “Sleep Guide for Health Promotion 2023″ released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in February 2023, the results of the National Health and Nutrition Survey in 2019 indicate that people who sleep on average for less than 6 hours a day The proportion was 37.5% for men and 40.6% for women, particularly for men in their 30s to 50s and women in their 40s to 50s. Also, in the research report of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) in 2021, *
The average sleeping time of Japanese people is the shortest among the 33 member countries. *
In response to this current situation, Ito Notebook has set the concept of a product to be released in 2024 as “writing to improve your body and mind health.” By recording and visualizing daily events and emotions, we aim to assist in self-management and reflection, and support the realization of a healthy lifestyle.
* The purpose of the patchwork diary is to write down the events of the day before you go to bed at night, to resolve your “fuzzed feelings” and to have a peaceful sleep. *
The Patchwork Diary was devised by four students from the Faculty of Economics at Nagoya City University, and commercialized by Ito Techo. * [Origin of the name of Patchwork Diary] *
Patchwork is a technique in which fabrics of different patterns and colors are cut out, combined, and sewn together to create a single work. It was named “patchwork diary” because the process of completing a diary by filling in small round frames with the strength and weakness of the day’s emotions and the completed diary pages are similar to the patchwork technique.
* [How to use patchwork diary] *
*You can fill in the form in any way that suits your lifestyle* Usage example 1: Write down your emotions and events today and connect them with lines. By doing so, you can create circles of various shapes. You can enjoy seeing what kind of circles you can make.
write and connect
Usage example 2: Use it like a regular diary. Mark a circle with a diameter of 1.2cm to represent your emotions that day. Write down any events or reflections next to it.
It’s okay if you don’t like long sentences.
Usage example 3: You can also enjoy using circles to draw
illustrations and stamps. If you record only one word, there is no pressure to write, which leads to continued use of the diary. There is no pressure to write. You can have fun using it by stamping or pasting stickers.
* 【specification】*
Product name: Patchwork diary
Price: 1,870 yen (tax included)
Size: A5
Body weight: 300g
Text paper: cream book paper
Cover: paper hardcover
Bookbinding: Thread binding
Number of pages: 128P
Page breakdown:
Door x 1P
Introduction x 2P
How to use x 2P
Diary x 120P
Word list x 2 pages
Colophon x 1P
Circle diameter: approx. 1.2cm
* schedule*
2024/8/20 Project start
2024/10/15 Project finished
Shipping will begin as soon as the project is completed
* Makuake pre-sale details *
■Super early bird discount 15% OFF
Quantity: First 150 books
Contents: Patchwork diary x 1 item
Price: 1,590 yen (tax included)
■Early bird pre-sale 10% OFF
Quantity: First 150 books
Contents: Patchwork diary x 1 item
Price: 1,683 yen (tax included)
Executor: Ito Notebook Co., Ltd.
Ito Notebook Yumeki Rock EC site sales scheduled for October 25th [About Ito Notebook Co., Ltd.]
Founded in 1933 by the grandfather of the current owner as a private business. In 2008, with the organizational change to Ito Notebook Co., Ltd., Akihito Ito was appointed as the third representative director. At the time of business succession, the factory division was relocated from the head office and factory (Higashi Ward, Nagoya City), which was 100 tsubo in size, to Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture.
Komaki 2nd Factory (2nd Base) will also start operating in April 2022. We manufacture 10 million notebooks a year on a site of 1,800 tsubo in total. Business growth rate 9.20% (4 years).
Since 2021, as one of our regional contributions based on the SDGs Declaration, we have been developing and selling notebooks through an industry-academia collaboration program with Aichi University, Ichinomiya Commercial High School, and Shotoku Gakuen Junior High School (Musashino City, Tokyo) to expand the base of notebook demand. .
In 2023, Aichi University Career Support Center, Aichi Prefectural Ichinomiya Commercial High School Seitoku Gakuen Junior High School (Musashino City, Tokyo), S-Kare (Student Innovation
Abbreviation for College. We worked on the development of a new notebook product with an intercollegiate competition between university seminars that we are aiming to commercialize.
A total of 60 planner plans have been proposed by December 2023, and four of them have been commercialized.
Trade name: Ito Notebook Co., Ltd.
Representative: Representative Director Ryohito Ito
Address: 461-0034 Head Office: 3-42 Buzen-cho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Aichi TEL: 052-936-2363
Business details: Manufacture and sale of various notebooks, manufacture of general books, manufacture of vinyl products
Capital: 10,000,000 yen
URL: Ito Techo official website https://ito-techo.jp/
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