I don’t remember how I came across the website of Macha Selbach. She has posted lots of images from her travel sketchbooks, as well as other artworks. Some are bright and colorful, and others are simple monochromatic ink sketches that nevertheless capture beautiful light. Lots of different styles, and all beautiful! See more at: books … Continue reading Macha Selbach’s Travel Sketches
I picked up this vintage travel diary on eBay for about $7. I’m not sure exactly when it would have been manufactured, but it definitely dates from an era when travel was quite a different experience from what it is today! The diary begins with 17 pages of frontmatter, most of which consists of various … Continue reading Vintage Travel Diary
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
This week’s addict is a designer and illustrator who has filled a nice row of Moleskine journals: What’s inside is even better: beautiful travel collages! For the past several years, I’ve keep a sketchbook that I use for everyday notes, ideas, lists, sketches, as well as travel collages. I carry it with me everywhere and, … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Naomi Leeman
One thing I have been bad about on this site is following up on my notebook reviews to see how notebooks perform and hold up after being used daily til they are complete. My “everyday carry” notebook habits are pretty consistent and skew heavily towards the older Moleskines I’ve stockpiled over the years, but I … Continue reading My Daily Notebooks: Moleskine Alternatives
I wish there were more images of these travel sketchbooks in the Cape Gazette’s profile of a local artist in Lewes, Delaware: As Victor Letonoff flips through the pages of a small sketchbook, watercolor paintings remind him of his travels to Paris. As a page turns, a French street gives way to the Golden Gate … Continue reading Travel Sketchbooks by Victor Letonoff
Seawhite of Brighton is a British brand of art supplies targeted at the educational market. I’ve only seen their products in stores once, when I was in London. But I did find this sketchbook available on Amazon, and decided to give it a try.. As noted in my post Size Matters: When A6 Isn’t A6, … Continue reading Review: Seawhite Travel Journal
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this site, I thought I’d revisit some popular posts from the past. This one is from 2014. In it, I talk about an important shift in my notebook usage habits– from being fickle and switching notebooks before finishing them, to filling every page. You can see the comments on … Continue reading Revisiting the Past: More on Finishing Notebooks (2014)
I’ve been enjoying my cross-country trip so far! It hasn’t involved a whole lot of notebook sightings but here are a few so far. At the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, TN, I bought this Vinylux journal. I’d seen these before at a holiday fair in NYC and didn’t buy one, but … Continue reading Cross-Country Road Trip Notes
It’s been a while since any new product from Moleskine excited me much. But I was happy to see that they’ve finally introduced some updated versions of the City Notebooks. I have almost all the cities that were released when they first introduced these (in 2008, according to Amazon, even though the maps in some … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: New City Notebooks for 2018!