The nice folks at Brandbook.de offered to send me some samples, and how could I resist? They do a wide variety of customized notebooks for various clients, but you can’t buy them in stores. Here’s a few of the recent projects they’re most proud of: The first one was made for the Art Directors Club … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Custom Notebooks from Brandbook.de
Here we are with another Carnival of Pen, Pencil & Paper. It’s an interesting selection this month– I think the notebook people need to step it up a bit as far more of our submissions tend to be about pens! But there’s a great variety of pen articles that made for interesting reading, so I’m … Continue reading Carnival of Pen, Pencil & Paper #18
BengKia discusses using wire-bound sketchbooks, Monologue notebooks and Moleskines: The advantages of a stitched sketchbook over a spiral-ring sketchbook are a few. I have found that the spiral-ring binding is prone to being bent out of shape when stuffed in a bag and once the binding rings are deformed, it makes opening the pages difficult. … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: The Switch from Wire-Bound Sketchbooks
This week’s addict is someone whose sketches I’ve posted here before. He sent me these photos of his collection– it’s great to also see their “home”– I’m thinking “where your notebooks live” could be a topic for a whole series of posts! Here’s what Rowland has to say about his addiction: I’m on ‘serious Moleskine’ … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Rowland Jones
Another clipping from the New York Times Style Magazine (Dec. 4, 2010)– my eyes went right to the sketchbooks in the middle: Here’s a close-up: Yes, she’s beautiful and smart and a talented artist, but aren’t you most envious of the fact that her husband makes her leather-covered notebooks!?
Some nice-looking pages here: Another Moleskine Comes to an End. See more posts about Moleskines at Serenastyle Blog, including this lovely overstuffed notebook: I love how the pasted-in items have made it so chunky, yet the edges are still so tidy!
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”
I like this collection of faces, all done in a reporter-style Moleskine: See more at chaosboy industry – Milan, Italy – Moleskine sketches collection.
I was quite excited to see these Moleskine pages by Australian artist Rod Luff– I”m not sure exactly what kinds of materials he’s using, but the intense colors are amazing– some of his pages look like the kind of rich, intense oil paintings you’d only expect to see being done on an easel, not in … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Rod Luff’s Painterly Pages