I’m a longtime fan of the Urban Sketchers website. Small notebooks aren’t necessarily the only way to do urban sketches, but they’re probably the most practical and frequent tool, so the site offers lots of notebook eye-candy, as well as some great art. Here are a few recent favorites: The site has also organized an … Continue reading Urban Sketchers
Check out this nice sketch blog, with some lovely little drawings of everyday things: 365 Journal Entries.
Some nice images from field notebooks shared by four people from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: Read more at Keeping a Field Notebook, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Love these Moleskine pages from a blog called Really Accessible Memory, or RAM for short.
I recently got an email from an Austrian designer named Konstantin Schmölzer, who asked me to take a look at his concept for a notebook. His idea is very cool: a notebook with multiple bookmarks that can link from an index page to anywhere in the notebook. Here’s an image of one of his prototypes: … Continue reading Konstantin Schmölzer’s Unique Notebooks
This website is a notebook-lover’s dream. Check out all the beautiful images at Carnets | The Swedish Parrot. You can also see more at his Flickr stream. Here’s just a taste:
I wasn’t familiar with David Mitchell’s books, but there was an interesting article about him in this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: Since the appearance of his debut novel, “Ghostwritten,†in 1999 — a fifth, “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,†is being published this week — Mitchell’s writing has been compared with … Continue reading David Mitchell’s Notebook
I liked the look of this slipcased set of notebooks: From the product description: The design of this set of three notebooks is adapted from works by the German artist Marcel Odenbach (b. 1953). The notebooks are packaged in a stylish slipcase, each notebook has a different cover and contains either 64 blank, lined or … Continue reading Odenbach Notebooks at MoMA Store
Here’s someone who has just finished one Moleskine sketchbook and is about to start another: I love what she wrote about using her notebooks: I carry my moleskine almost everywhere I go — it’s my calandar, it’s my reference book, it’s my crossword-puzzle-holder, it’s my playground,it’s my portfolio, it’s my storybook, it’s my notebook, it’s … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Old and New
I love this concept, and wish I had heard about it before now, as it occurs in April each year: International Fake Journal Month. Here’s the creator’s explanation: What Is International Fake Journal Month? Basically it’s a free pass to put anything in a journal that you might not otherwise put in. At least that’s … Continue reading International Fake Journal Month