The Hermetic Compendium

For the past year or so, I’ve been quietly working on a personal project—something I originally designed just for myself. I do a lot of sketchbook work and I wanted a sketchbook that was a bit more magic, a but more inspirational than just one from the shop - so I designed a sketchbook that feels like a magical object in its own right: realistic faux-grimoire hard cover, aged vellum-style pages, faded sigils, and just enough mystery to spark real creative fire...

Allow me to unveil The Hermetic Compendium — a beautifully crafted A5 hardback sketchbook, designed for magicians, mentalists, and theatrical thinkers who work in the strange spaces between logic and illusion.

Styled to resemble an ancient tome, its 100 vellum-style pages are subtly overlaid with faded diagrams, sigils, and pseudo-occult illustrations. These ghostly motifs aren’t instructions or dogma—they’re creative provocations. Hints. Frameworks. Quiet suggestions that invite you to make your own meaning.

Whether you're scripting a new effect, mapping out a routine, or chasing a half-formed concept through daydreams and sketches, The Hermetic Compendium gives your ideas a place to land. I often find myself tracing the shapes in the margins as I think—marking time in squiggles, then scrawling down a breakthrough on the next line.

This isn’t a prop or a gimmick. It’s a tool. A space for strange thoughts, elegant structures, and flashes of insight. Something that feels good to work in—solid, private, and richly suggestive.