About WRKBKS.co
Built for the
rest of us.
Not the pros with a system. The ones who’ve started too many notebooks and finished none of them.
The blank page problem
A blank notebook sounds great. Until you open one.
Suddenly it’s too open. Too precious to mess up. Too easy to start three of them and use none of them consistently. Notes end up scattered across four different books, a phone, and the back of a grocery receipt.
“If you can’t find the perfect book, make it.”
That’s WRKBKS in a sentence. Each notebook is purpose-built for one subject — structured enough to keep you on track, simple enough to actually use.
Who it’s for
Not for the seasoned pro. Maybe for you.
If you’ve had the same system for years and it’s working — great, you don’t need us. WRKBKS is for the chicken-scratch note-takers. The “I’ll organize this later” crowd. The people who’d genuinely track their golf game or their film rolls if the notebook just told them what to write down.
That’s the whole trick. We figure out the structure. You just show up with a pen.
The maker
Hi. I’m Dustin.
Designer. Photographer. The person who tracked 50 rounds of golf in a shoebox and decided there had to be a better way.
Credentials, if you’re into that sort of thing
- 20+ years in graphic design — agency, in-house, major brand work
- Ran a jewelry business making necklaces from vintage subway tokens — ended up in Real Simple magazine’s gift guide and on CBS’s Early Show
- Design credits include Newell’s Ball Blue Book, USA Olympic teams, Sochi 2014 branding, and Borders Bookstores
- Active film photographer with five rotating cameras and a developing backlog
The notebooks I make are for the subjects I’m obsessed with. Golf and photography first. More on the way — but only when I can build something genuinely better than what’s already out there.
Made in Indiana
Local presses. Personal packaging.
Every WRKBKS notebook is printed right here in Indiana. Not a faceless fulfillment center — local printing presses, packed by hand, shipped with care.