MD Notebook A6 Artist Collaboration - Grace Lee

In celebration of MD's 15th year anniversary, the MD team invited Grace Lee and 14 other artists to get creative with the MD Notebook and enjoy the way you can write everywhere, even on the cover. Then they created a special-edition MD Notebooks with the artists' illustrations and writing blind embossed on the covers.

With the artists given carte blanche on an A5 MD, the original artwork is debossed on an A6 notebook.

Grace Lee for Midori MD

Grace is an Australian-born, Tokyo-based illustrator. After studying visual communications and cutting her teeth in editing and print ad design, she moved to Tokyo in 2009. She has worked on books, packaging and campaigns around the world. She makes imaginative use of colors and shapes to create playful works that add excitement to people's daily lives.

About their artwork for Midori MD, Grace shares: "I rely on colour for my regular work, so this design served as a good creative challenge to strip everything back and go back to basics — just paper and pen. I thought about what I personally use notebooks for and most of the time it's for everything I listed in my design. It was a lovely full circle moment to write in an MD Notebook again as it was one of the first notebooks I used when I moved to Japan."

Have a look at Grace Lee's artwork and portfolio here.