While doing a quick project at Umea Institute of design, I came across an interesting fact: aluminum can be recycled indefinitely and 66% of current recycled aluminum dates as far back as 1886.

I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if you could have an object like a notepad for flying made of aluminum recycled from a historic plane. That’s how this idea started.

The concept for the notepad was to be fully enclosed with a lid that would flip over to the bottom and a cam lever on the right that would lock it into place. At the top is also a storage hole for an integrated pen.

Here are some renders of the concept. It is a simple faceted design, which includes a laser engrave of a historic war bird to connect the material to the history. The mechanical latch and matching pen also draw on the mechanical past history of the aluminum.