This week’s addict is Katerina Sakkas, an artist and writer from Sydney, Australia. She’s been using Daler Rowney sketchbooks for 20 years, filling them with drawings and ideas: Simple and sturdy with their canvas-textured hard covers and heavy-weight, off-white paper, Daler Rowney’s Ebony journals have served me faithfully for 20 years, as a place to … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Katerina
This week’s addict shared a photo of his collection with me via Twitter several years ago and yet it somehow languished in my to-do list until now! (At least I think so… after 10-plus years of blogging, I can’t even remember all the Notebook Addicts I’ve posted about!) Here’s Stephen’s collection as of 2015. I … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Stephen
This week’s addict displays this lovely scattered pile of completed notebooks on Instagram: I love all those raggedy edges and stuffed covers! And I want to see the pile of blank notebooks too! Check out Mara’s Instagram feed for even more, including sketchbooks she has handbound and the beautiful art she creates inside them: @mararhum
Happy Phantom is a notebook addict with a happy dilemma: which of these beauties to use next? I spy Moleskine, Leuchtturm, Paperblanks, maybe Midori, and some other brands I don’t recognize. See more of Happy Phantom’s notebooks (and fountain pens!) on Instagram.
The geek girl pop culture site The Mary Sue talks about a Twitter post that went viral, revealing some very widespread notebook addiction amongst their staff and commenters: A few days ago, a Tweet went by that made me smile: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you already have six blank notebooks … Continue reading Notebook Addict(s) of the Week: The Mary Sue (And Hundreds of Thousands of People on Twitter)
This week’s addict is on Instagram as @schreibaerin, where her beautiful photos of nature and landscapes are often joined by photos of her extensive notebook collection. These are some of my favorites! The Waverley Scottish tartan notebooks: Some fun color themes, including Moleskine, Paperblanks, Leuchtturm and others. Fun shapes! Her collection, or at least part … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Martina Herbst
What a lovely display of notebooks and pencils, from the Instagram account of xanelachic. I recognize a couple of brands from Portugal, similar to ones in my own collection: Serrote Letterpress (the white one that says “caderno”) and Emilio Braga (the hardcover with contrasting spine and corners at bottom left). Source: Xanelachic’s original post on … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: xanelachic
This week’s addict is Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian. I’d read an article about him that mentioned he’d used over 200 Moleskines so far, so these must be just a few of them, featured on his Instagram account:
Tina was a Notebook Addict of the Week back in 2014, when she showed us her collection of hand-bound sketchbooks. She is still a dedicated Urban Sketcher, and has also done quite a bit of traveling. This time, Tina shares her collection of travel journals: [Above] is a photo of the whole collection: several Moleskines … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week (Again): Tina Koyama
I found this week’s addict on Instagram. Ironbark Journals is an Etsy seller of hand-stitched travelers notebook covers, but the photo below is her personal collection. So. Much. Leather.