{"id":100723,"date":"2022-05-23T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=100723"},"modified":"2022-05-23T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:47:22","slug":"belgian-artist-nina-blasband-creates-bullet-journals-for-horse-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/belgian-artist-nina-blasband-creates-bullet-journals-for-horse-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian artist Nina Blasband creates bullet journals for horse-lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Gelsey Plaza<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medill Reports<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colored pencils, crayons and watercolor palettes of every imaginable color. Gel pens, pastel markers, black soft-ink pens and jars of Ecoline liquid watercolors. Pages of sketches and drawings scatter the white drawing desk, which is covered with glitter, stamps, photo collages, vases, notebooks, journals and drawing tools. It\u2019s the serene yet chaotic workspace of young Belgian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ninablasbandbujo\/\">Nina Blasband<\/a>, 21, who illustrates bullet journals and other stationery by hand. Strings of lights dot the perimeter of the desk in her bedroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past four years, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been creating and selling $36 personalized bullet journals \u2014 known as \u201cbujos\u201d \u2014 on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninablasband.com\">website<\/a> to customers who use them to track their daily schedule, moods, goals, memories, accomplishments and stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an equestrian,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> creates her bullet journals for horse lovers. The animals need 24\/7 care and attention, so the horse journal section contains a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU8Fi6mt4a2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">health check<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CX02uw-NoTm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">budget<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CXeW5Alt4LT\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">drawn arenas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to detail exercises and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU8Fi6mt4a2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for pictures, quotes, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reflections and goals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s horse <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CZsDQpQgZ3h\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gazelle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an Arabian mare, inspired her to create additional horse sections at the end of each month. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was 13 when she was born, so we truly grew up together and have created a little world of our own,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. \u201cPeople think I&#8217;m crazy when I say that, but she has a great sense of humor and loves to smile on command.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100726\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.48.29-PM.png\" alt=\"Nina with her horse and rainbow notepad \" width=\"700\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.48.29-PM.png 700w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.48.29-PM-300x296.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blasband with her horse and rainbow notepad. (Blasband&#8217;s Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it&#8217;s a better way than having an agenda and then a notebook for notes from classes \u2014 and then one for all your homework and then one for all your grades,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. \u201cI just have everything in this single one bullet journal, and that&#8217;s a lot easier for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sketches from her home in Brussels, where she lives with her parents and two younger brothers. Her dad is a computer scientist who started his own business, greatly influencing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to take a leap of faith and start one too. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s mother was an interior designer before becoming a full-time mom, horse mom and dog mom. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> enrolled in her high school\u2019s art classes and learned through trial and error. She always wrote everything down but got bored of looking at the same agenda every week in store-bought journals. Then a lightbulb clicked for her: Why not design one herself and put as much color and imagination into it as she\u2019d like? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And why not sell a few too? That part was her mom\u2019s idea. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adele Boon, a longtime friend, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recalls how Blasband would bring her drawings to high school. Boon was always in awe. \u201cI don&#8217;t have a horse myself, so I use the equestrian spaces of her bujos as a dedicated space for my studies, which is super useful,\u201d Boon said. \u201cI like to be able to kind of separate my personal life and my student life.\u201d She studies European studies in Maastricht, Netherlands, so as a busy student, bullet journaling offers her a record of the fun and sad moments of her life \u2014 and even the mundane ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s journals lasts for six months, with each month illustrated in a different theme. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> favorite theme is flowers because they are beautiful, versatile and colorful, she said. Other themes include horses, outer space, city life, travel, ocean waves, sunsets and dogs. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> creates mood boards, Etsy-inspired photo collages full of ideas, in order to figure out the perfect patterns and color schemes for each month. Her favorite artistic medium is watercolor, as it creates a serene rainbow effect on paper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100725\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-100725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.49.20-PM.png\" alt=\"The March cover page is full of vibrant orange and pink blossoms. \" width=\"750\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.49.20-PM.png 750w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-20-at-7.49.20-PM-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The March cover page is full of vibrant orange and pink blossoms. (Blasband&#8217;s Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each page is different. It&#8217;s like a new surprise every day,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said Aline Dony, one of her customers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThe drawings are so beautiful with color, and it makes me happy when I open it. I prefer Nina&#8217;s bujo because it&#8217;s from Belgium, and all is homemade \u2014 just with a lot of talent.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After she paints and draws the whole bullet journal, she then uploads the designs to be printed. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It takes six to seven weeks after sending the journals off to print in Belgium to receive them back. Once the finished bullet journals arrive, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ships each order. The July-December journal must be sent for print by the beginning of March, so <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> must complete the journal\u2019s drawings and designs by the end of February.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One downside: \u201cI have the hands of an 80-year-old,\u201d she said. \u201cI only have a couple weeks to get all of the drawings done, so it\u2019s very intense <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u2014 l<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ots of repetitive movement, and it really hurts.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get into the groove during long hours of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CZDB52LpE6F\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">painting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> watches \u201cFriends\u201d in the background. She also enjoys listening to music while working under her string lights. \u201cIt&#8217;s all very, very cozy and fun, and it&#8217;s like meditation but work,\u201d she said. She will <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">listen to pop music or anything with a catchy beat when she must get many things done in a given timeframe, but she prefers to listen to slow and soft music when she is in the zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she puts up daily stories and schedules consistent posts at least three times a week. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want Instagram to reflect my brand and my products realistically but also be relatable to horse owners and artists,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. \u201cI do try to take a day (or) week to either do games or share other people&#8217;s content on my stories instead of creating to give myself a break and not feel like I have to share everything I do.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media is a powerful advertising tool, but it has made it possible for copycats to take <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband\u2019s ideas. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When individuals copy her drawings, she usually direct messages them and asks them to give her credit. But once, a newer brand wanted to expand and create stationery, so they DM\u2019d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asking to collaborate. She agreed but never heard from them again. A couple of months later, she saw the brand\u2019s \u201cBullet Agenda,\u201d and its write-up described <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s product perfectly. \u201cThat was a bit complicated and sad honestly, but (the brand) didn&#8217;t last long and aren&#8217;t selling anything anymore,\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> she<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. Fortunately, her business is flourishing, and her Instagram following offers a colorful and welcoming community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think everyone who says they don&#8217;t need paper and they have everything in their brain \u2014 I think they&#8217;re lying, and they&#8217;re the people that are always late and are always missing appointments,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blasband<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said. \u201cI promise that writing things down is the only way to make sure you have everything in order.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Gelsey is a magazine journalism graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gelsey_plaza\">@gelsey_plaza<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gelsey Plaza Medill Reports Colored pencils, crayons and watercolor palettes of every imaginable color. 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