The New York Times did something rather neat in their last weekend paper of the year. They reproduced in miniature some of the front pages with the biggest stories of the year. I was excited to see that these mini front pages were just the right size to fit in a notebook!
I carefully cut them all out and taped them into my 2018 Nolty diary, in the weeks that correspond to their dates. Taping them at the spine allowed me to still flip past them to see whatever I had written on the pages underneath. (Some weeks had two newspapers to tape in, so I overlapped them.) The newspaper pages are slightly larger than the Nolty pages, but they still fit within the cover overhang.
I love how this turned my diary into a record of some of the year’s big events (even if a lot of those events were rather depressing). I do sometimes write about current events in my journal, but I don’t tend to log them in the Nolty diary– this makes me feel like maybe I should start! It will be interesting to look back at it someday. I hope the Times does this every year, but if they don’t, I may have to see if I can find a way to print out certain front pages in this size…
Oh, I saw this on your IG, but I didn’t really understand that the Times had done that… I thought you reduced them on the copier! And in the tiny phone image, I thought you had drawn a bunch of interesting patterns with multicolored inks… and it wasn’t until I saw it enlarged on my laptop that I realized it was just your writing that had been digitally smudged! ;-) I’m an idiot. Cool effect, though!
OH… want. Is there a way to find these again? Do you, by any chance, have a link? Would love to do this, too. Thanks.
Cool!