Journey Jottings

Linda Fairbairn founded Journey Jottings in 2003 when she developed the idea of combining a ‘Map’ with a ‘Journal’.

The first Australia Map Journal was published in 2004 and having been subsequently redrawn is now in its 4th edition.

The unique Australia Mail-It Map, which was first published with the Central Australia version in 2005, went to a 3rd edition in 2008

The Scrapbook Pack first published in 2006,
has also now gone to its 3rd edition

Click on the above logo to view Linda Fairbairn's interview with publisher Career FAQs

2008 Journey Jottings is finalist in Australian Home-based Business Awards

City North News, Brisbane 11/09/2008

Federal Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, the Hon. Dr Craig Emerson M.P., presenting the Australian Home Based Business Award finalist certificate to Linda Fairbairn of Journey Jottings 18/08/2008

2008	‘Australia Mail-It Map 3rd edition’ finalist of the Gift Awards (Australian designed and/or manufactured)

‘Australia Scrapbook Pack’ finalist of the Memento Awards
‘Australia Mail-It Map’ finalist of the Memento Awards
‘Australia Map Journal’ finalist of the Memento Awards

The Courier Mail,
Brisbane 04/08/2005
Reporter: Emma Chalmers

Emma Chalmers

'Yesterday... finalists in the Memento Awards which honour outstanding souvenirs that form part of the $700 million Australia-made gift industry
[were announced]....

    'Awards manager Darren Jones of Creative Economy said the judges
were… drawn to the offerings of local mapmaker and ardent traveller
Linda Fairbairn.
    Her Journey Jottings – a series of map journals impressed the judges
with their high quality and creativity.
    “I think its got great appeal for the grey nomads that are travelling
around Australia in great numbers,” Mr Jones said.
    Originally a cartographer for the minerals and mining industry in
Western Australia, the Brisbane-based businesswoman has turned her
former profession into a new enterprise.
    The old-world-style maps cover several parts of Australia and feature
space for individual commentary.
    “I thought it would just be great to have a concise summary of your trip
that you would be able to share with other people,” she said.'

Podcast of radio interview on the Idlers with the Coodabeens 22/10/2005

Linda was interviewed in the final segment of this one hour section of the broadcast, to be found on the ABC website:

www.abc.net.au/coodabeens/stories/s1489420.htm

Hear the Idlers on Recording your Travels - and Ted Egan

Idlers audio.

I was recently on holiday in NT and came across your wonderful maps of the red centre – snapped up a few to fill in to send to my dad and sister back in England and kept one for myself as a diary/souvenir. My family were thrilled with them as it gave them a visual sense of where I’d been and what I’d done and was far more expressive than a postcard!

Emma, Tasmania

I live in Canada and have just returned from a month's trip to Australia.
In August, when we were visiting the Red Centre, I saw your Australia Map Journal posted on a shop wall. The map was obviously frequently read because it had developed a well-fingered "we are here" spot.
As a travelling, journalling map lover... the Map Journal has been a great pleasure to read and use, with its lovely illustrations and lettering, the fine paper that takes a pen so well, and the protective wallet to keep it safe in my backpack.
Now it is the first thing I turn to when I want to recall and share my trip memories.
Thank you for sharing your creativity and love of maps.

Debra Arnison-Sutton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I must say your little display stands are very well designed and constructed

Lyndal, The Language People

Most maps tell you where to go, Journey Jottings tell you where you’ve been!

Hand drawn in pen and ink these pictorial maps of Australia are printed on textured paper where open roads await the journey to be dotted with surrounding space for memorable moments to be jotted.

Summarizing your trip for personal reflection they also offer a spatial relationship for when showing the photographs, or a visual complement to written journals, forever connecting those holiday experiences with today.

Map Journals come tucked in a travel wallet leaving the back pocket free for ticket stubs and memorabilia, whilst the Mail-It Map comes with a coloured envelope for keeping family and friends posted en route.

Succinctly snap-shotting entire landscapes on a single sheet these maps capture places visited and arouse a satisfied sense of accomplishment when reminiscing.

Most maps are synonymous with navigation, but as Sir Francis Chichester said,

“To a man of imagination, a map is a window to adventure”.

Journey Jottings maps exude a feeling that somewhere an ‘X’ marks the spot… But its discovery lies in the hand of the traveller whose journey is encapsulated in this visual keepsake.

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