Design Work Life is always a great source of cool visuals, including some fabulous sketchbook spreads from a variety of artists:   Mette Hornung Rankin’s conÂtriÂbuÂtion to The Sketchbook Project: Things That Stick.  See more at design work life » Things That Stick. Some work by Nick Iluzada:  See more at design work … Continue reading Sketchbook Envy at Design Work Life
I love this photo of a beat-up, falling apart, well-loved sketchbook. It belongs to Mr. Warburton, an animator and the creator of the Cartoon Network series Codename: Kids Next Door. See more drawings from inside at warburtonlabs: ANOTHER VINTAGE SKETCHBOOK.
Remember Michael Bierut’s 86 notebooks? Well, he’s up to 90 now. And they’re in an exhibition with a really cool poster! Read more: Michael Bierut‘s ‘30 Years 90 Notebooks’ at College of Saint Rose | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.
Gabriel Campanario is the Seattle Sketcher I featured a few weeks ago in this post. He’s also the founder of Urban Sketchers, and was interviewed for a Japanese book called 61 Ways to Put Your Life into a Moleskine: Yoko Nakamuta, who knows how much some urban sketchers love their Moleskines, invited me to write … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: 61 Ways
Love this! A notebook designed to look like an old VHS tape. See more at Video Notebook — ACCESSORIES — Better Living Through Design.
A few months ago, I met Karen from Exaclair at her BookExpo booth and got a sneak peek at some new items from Rhodia and Clairefontaine. A few weeks later, some lovely samples showed up in my mailbox! Let’s take a look. First off, here’s the new large Webnotebook with dot-grid paper. I love dot-grid … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Some Rhodia and Clairefontaine Goodies
A nice little post from the Seattle Sketcher blog on the Seattle Times website:Â Seattle Sketcher | Like the Starbucks logo artist, I cant stop sketching | Seattle Times Newspaper. I enjoyed reading this story by my Times colleague Melissa Allison about the artist who created the Starbucks logo, Terry Heckler. I can relate to … Continue reading “I Can’t Stop Sketching”
Isn’t this gorgeous? See more, including the (als0 gorgeous) final paintings she makes based on studies like this, at :: Mattie’s Online Painting & Photography Studio ::.
Here are our 5 winners for the sketchbooks. No one seems to have entered via linking back from a blog post, so I picked one winner from the comments, and two each from Twitter and Facebook: Comment #10 from Dan Twitter: @onymousol and @janelGr Facebook: Shaun Brooke and Diane Buck Thank you everyone! Send … Continue reading Stillman & Birn Winners
They come equipped with sketch pads, pencils, and patience. You’ll find them sitting in a group for hours at a time, watching the frenetic action of a public space and sketching what they see, their lines revealing the atmosphere and motion of a moment in time. They are urban sketchers… And some of them are … Continue reading Memphis Urban Sketchers