I love coming across antique notebooks. This was a random find on RobMan170’s Flickr feed: The journal belonged to someone named William Lee who sailed from Hong Kong to England in 1894. There are scans of what seem to be every page of the notebook, including some drawings and the manufacturer’s info on the inside … Continue reading An 1894 Travel Notebook
LOTS of linkage to catch up on from the mailbag! Handmade leather journals by papersandtschai.com and on Facebook at Papersandtschai “Handmade sketchbooks, journals, pads and other gathered paper products with recycled materials, vintage materials and an eye toward durability” from nekoheavyindustries.etsy.com Elephant dung notebooks at new.poopoopaper.com. A notebook kept by someone … Continue reading Tips from Readers
Suw Charman-Anderson has an interesting article at Forbes.com about the best ways to use a notebook for creative endeavors. She refers to another series of blog posts called The Entrepreneur’s Notebook, which brings up a controversial approach: I’ve always used my notebooks for everything, whether that was notes from a meeting I was in, to … Continue reading Keeping Your Creative Ideas in a Separate Notebook?
Roz tests a Moleskine sketchbook with some unhappy results… but beautiful art! “Gouache test on Moleskine sketchbook spread. You can see that even with a controlled amount of water the pages will buckle. On the bright side you can do some fun and drippy things on the page, and you can use the “repelling” qualities … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Giving a Sketchbook a Try
This week’s addict emailed me from the Philippines: “Thought that I would send you some of my notebook images over the years. 3 are moleskine while the other 2 are Front Notebook & an old diary. I like the pocket square Moleskine notebooks but as you can see from the images they tend to “decompose” … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Peter
A fun New York Times article by Sloane Crosley. She’s been using the same Louis Vuitton planner and inserts for 22 12 years and counting: At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while … Continue reading Sloane Crosley’s Yearly Date With the Planner
I have to admit I had no idea what an Anole was when I found this, but I have now learned that they are a type of lizard, and Albert Schwartz, a professor of biology at Miami Dade Community College, was an expert on them, thanks to all the notes he kept in these: … Continue reading Albert Schwartz’s Anole Notebooks
I spotted this lovely brown notebook at a funky little gift shop in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood and loved the wingtip shoe pattern and texture on the cover: And inside, you get these beautiful endpapers: You can buy the medium size of these notebooks in other colors on Amazon but otherwise you may just have to … Continue reading Ted Baker Brogue Notebooks
Lex Wilson’s very cool typographic artwork in a Moleskine: See more at Moleskine Typography – Fubizâ„¢.