Sometimes, a notebook is only as good as what you write in it with. A notebook can have the best paper in the world, but it still won’t be enjoyable to use with a crappy pen. Over the years, I’ve tried many different pens, but I’ve finally narrowed my choices down to a few favorites, [...]
Many readers will probably be familiar with Jenni Bick Bookbinding– they sell a nice variety of journals and albums that can be personalized. Now, they have a new venture called MoleskineAndMore.com, a site offering customized stamping of Moleskine notebooks! Moleskine does quite a few customized editions, but they’re usually with large companies or institutions like [...]
This week’s addict has written various blog posts thoroughly documenting how he keeps himself organized with a version of the GTD (Getting Things Done) system. And he’s filled a lot of notebooks doing it! I also loved this quote: Why do I insist on keeping a notebook? To quote Dwight Schrute, “I keep secrets from [...]
How about that: Battlestar Galactica notebooks. Not sure what’s up with that angled corner! But a cool gift for your favorite sci-fi geek! (I watched the original version back in the ’70s, but not the more recent series, so I’m not enough of a sci-fi geek myself to know which incarnation these refer to!) [...]
For a few years now, I’ve come across online mentions of these very cool Penguin notebooks, but had never figured out where to buy one in the US. But a few months ago, when I was attending BookExpo America for my day job, I happened to wander through the Penguin booth and stopped when I [...]
I came across an interesting interview with Drew Bryant, who works as a designer for a branding/exhibit design firm, but also loves to draw in his spare time. Here’s a few outtakes: What sparked your passion for drawing? Since I was a young child I have loved to draw. It really has came and went [...]
This sounds like a fun event… and it’s at one of my favorite NYC stationery stores. Maybe I’ll see you there! How many stories can be written with a box of 400 different words? How many can you create? Join author and host of the Happy Ending Reading Series, Amanda Stern, and MoMA educator and [...]
This week’s addict posted a photo of this lovely shelf on her blog: Cacy asks: Are you a pen-and-paper person? Or do you go straight to the computer and start tp-tp-tptptp-ing away? Me? I love a good notebook. What is it about the chaos of keeping my ideas in barely legible writing across a [...]
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 contribution 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 [...]
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.
