This week’s addict is a designer who wishes he could find one notebook that met all his needs: One important characteristic I require is that the pages have to withstand watercolour paints, as this is the most common medium used when adding detail and colour to my sketches. The Windsor and Newton sketchpad does this … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Rusty Rocket
Here’s a neat idea for customizing your Moleskine daily planner: mark your own monthly tabs to make it easier to find a page quickly: Read more at Plannerisms: Moleskine Month Tabs Hack.
One of my favorite things is finding little-seen images from the notebooks of artists, writers and scientists. This one is a gem, as Edward Hopper is one of my favorite painters, yet I don’t recall ever having looked at any of the sketches for his works. I love how it seems to have been drawn … Continue reading Edward Hopper’s Sketchbook
Here’s another simultaneous multi-notebook user, though I didn’t think she was quite at the level of being an addict. Wendy is a jewelry and metal artist, and here’s what she had to say about her notebooks: “Why so many?†you ask. Each notebook was bought for a specific purpose, either a class, for use as … Continue reading “Notebooks, Notebooks Everywhere!”
Here’s an interesting concept– using a separate notebook for every project you work on. Depending on how you work and what kind of notebooks you like, it could be unwieldy or impractical, but in this case, we seem to be talking about graphic design projects in small Moleskine cahiers or Volants, and the user says … Continue reading One Notebook Per Project
More notebooks from the world of literature, this time from Henry Miller, the author of the sexy and scandalous (at least for their time) Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. I think I read both books when I was in college, but now I can’t remember a thing about them! But it does look … Continue reading Henry Miller’s Notebooks
This week’s addict is the author and illustrator D. M. Cornish, creator of the Monster-Blood Tattoo series. I’d never heard of these books, but they seem to have gotten some great reviews. I often enjoy fantasy novels for kids, so now I’m tempted to check them out! But what I’d really like to see are … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: D. M. Cornish
Quote of the day: “I bought ten blue notebooks from Walmart and I have filled five of them so far. It’s not OCD or anything, I’m just prepared in case it turns out that it’s the blue notebook doing all the work.” I’ve been meaning to check out the notebook offerings at WalMart… this has … Continue reading OCD or Being Prepared?
I haven’t updated my “using now” photo in a while– the photo that’s been there was of a Piccadilly graph notebook. After that, I went through a Moleskine graph notebook within a couple of months– this was one of the ones I got for 50 cents and it definitely had some quality issues– some of … Continue reading What I’m Using Now
Just in case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, I had to post this photo from an article in Vanity Fair, displaying the notebook collection of the late John Hughes, the creator of all those memorable 1980’s teen films such as Pretty in Pink. I first came across it at Pocket Blonde, and two readers also … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: John Hughes