Category Archives: Brands

Review and Giveaway: Daycraft Notebooks

Daycraft is a Hong Kong-based stationery company that makes a variety of notebooks and diaries. The nice folks there sent me a batch of samples of their colorful notebooks, which are quite different from anything I’ve reviewed so far. The one that most intrigued me was this, seen here with the plastic wrapping I’d just … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Daycraft Notebooks

Moleskine Monday: Tao Lin Sells His

An amusing tidbit from a Salon post about Tao Lin, an up and coming writer described as “the next big thing in urban hipster lit.” Among his unusual marketing stunts are things like selling shares in the future profits from his novels, and putting odds and ends like drawings, notes and unpublished story drafts up … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Tao Lin Sells His

Field Notes 50 States Boxed Set

I know I should probably show a little more love to Field Notes brand notebooks. Lots of notebook fans seem to adore them, and it’s very admirable that they’re designed and made here in the good old US of A. And it’s nice that their aesthetic celebrates a bygone era of promotional  memo books used … Continue reading Field Notes 50 States Boxed Set

Moleskine Monday: One Hundred (and three) Notebooks

Imagine buying 100 at a time! From a Flickr user: One Hundred (and three) Moleskine Notebooks I have just finished writing my book on Moleskine notebooks titled “Moleskine: How to make use of the “legendary” notebook”. I wanted to send a Moleskine notebook to each and every book reviewer and prominent reader of the book, … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: One Hundred (and three) Notebooks

Notebook Addict of the Week: A Penchant for Paper

Heather at A Penchant for Paper asks How Many Notebooks Are Too Many?: The true notebook addict would probably say that it would be impossible to have too many notebooks, but I am not so sure.  I have been feeling overwhelmed lately by the number of notebooks that I am currently using, as well as … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: A Penchant for Paper

Michael Bierut on 86 Notebooks

A couple of years ago, there was a great post on Design Observer about Michael Bierut’s notebooks: The post made its way around the blogosphere so extensively that I never bothered to link to it here. But more recently, a reader asked me if I had seen it, and it got me thinking again about … Continue reading Michael Bierut on 86 Notebooks