I forget how I stumbled across this book, but I love the cover: The Amazon page for The Vinyl Cafe Notebooks doesn’t have much info, but it turns out Stuart McLean is a Canadian author who has a radio show called The Vinyl Cafe. Find out more here.
Here’s another cute commemorative Moleskine, perfect for any fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s timeless classic Le Petit Prince (or The Little Prince in English): There’s even a charming video: For sale at Moleskine Asia now and at Amazon as of May 1, 2011.
Don’t you love the cover of this book? How could that not make a notebook fan want to read it! It certainly sucked me in, and the publisher was kind enough to send me a review copy. (Which actually has a slightly different cover, with a much cooler old-school fountain pen instead of the purple … Continue reading Book Review: Writers and Their Notebooks
Chapéu is Portuguese for “hat.” The folks there emailed me and asked me to check out their site, and I’m glad I did. Check out their fun designs! They do notebooks, agendas, and illustrated books, all for sale via their website.
Here’s a book that’s at the top of my wishlist: Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers. You can see more of the book in this article and slide show.
Here’s an exhibit I plan on checking out in the near future: “The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives,” at the Morgan Library in New York. The exhibit includes these lovely items: A diary jointly kept by Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: John Ruskin’s chess diary: You can see more images in … Continue reading Morgan Library Exhibit: “The Diary”
Brittany, who describes herself as “a thirteen-year-old writer of middle-grade fiction,” offers some good ideas for everyone who has a hoard of notebooks and can’t think of what to do with them. Here’s idea #1: 1. Keep a dream journal.- I’ve gotten some good story ideas from dreams, or at least little bits of story. … Continue reading 10 Uses for Spare Notebooks
Moleskine Asia has some boxed sets for sale– I haven’t seen anything like this in the US except for a special set MoMA did to tie into the Bauhaus exhibit. The “Colour Box” contains these items: – large volant ruled notebook (one of the colours: blue/ green/ pink/ sky blue/ red/ black/ purple, set of … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Box Sets
This week’s addict is not just into her own notebooks… She’s also addicted to the journals of others, from Thomas Merton to Frida Kahlo to Kurt Cobain. But as for her own notebooks, here’s what she has to say: What does one write in? There are so many possibilities. I use two sizes of Moleskines … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: ALB Creativity
These look pretty cool: Paperback Notebooks at Better Living Through Design. The covers are made of old second-hand books, rather than just reproducing the art.