Hobonichi Cover Akiko Miyakoshi: An Airport at Night (A6)
Akiko Miyakoshi's Hobonichi cover depicts an airport at night – a scene of diffuse light, stillness between movement, and that peculiar suspension familiar to travellers. Miyakoshi works with lithography, a printing technique that softens contours and gives grey tones a velvety depth. The image doesn't look like an illustration – it looks like a memory.
Features
- Design: Airport at Night – Akiko Miyakoshi's characteristic visual language: muted colours, atmospheric mood, lithographically soft contours that give the cover an almost painterly character.
- Fits A6 Planners – The cover is tailored to the Hobonichi Techo Original format (A6) and works equally well with Avec, Planner and Day-Free in A6 size.
- Butterfly Stopper – The distinctive butterfly clasp serves simultaneously as a pen holder and closure, keeping the cover shut in your bag.
- Back Pocket – A flat pocket on the back holds notes, business cards, receipts or small postcards.
- Two Ribbon Markers – Allow you to mark multiple places in your planner at once – handy when switching between monthly overview and daily pages.
- Double-Sided Design – Hobonichi prints covers in this series on front and back; both sides feature artwork from Miyakoshi's world.
Use & Tips
- The Butterfly Stopper accommodates fountain pens up to medium barrel diameter – slender pens with metal barrels sit particularly securely there.
- The back pocket works well for folded monthly calendars, sticky notes or narrow index cards used as dividers.
- To protect the cover from wear, you can slip a transparent cover-on-cover (sold separately) over it – it's specially designed for printed A6 Hobonichi covers with Butterfly Stopper.
- The ribbon markers can also be used as separators for ongoing and completed tasks if you use your planner as a bullet journal or combined planning and note-taking notebook.
- The design particularly appeals to travel diary keepers: an airport at night as a cover fits perfectly with travel notes, sketches and boarding card collections in the back pocket.
For Hobonichi Enthusiasts
Akiko Miyakoshi is a picture book author and illustrator known in Japan for works such as The Café at the Edge of the Night. For the Hobonichi Techo 2027 collaboration, the designs emerged from her lithographic practice – a printing technique where the drawing is applied directly to stone or aluminium plate. The result is imagery with characteristic grain and tonality, distinctly different from digital illustration. The night design carries this quality: the atmospheric light of an airport – terminal lights, runway in darkness – translates into a cover that feels calm without being empty.
Technical Specifications
| Model: | Hobonichi Cover – Akiko Miyakoshi: An Airport at Night |
| Format: | A6 (fits Hobonichi Techo Original, Avec, Planner, Day-Free in A6 size) |
| Design: | Airport at Night – illustration based on lithographic original by Akiko Miyakoshi |
| Closure: | Butterfly Stopper (serves simultaneously as pen holder) |
| Features: | Back pocket, two ribbon markers |
| Origin: | Japan |
| Contents: | Cover (planner book not included) |
