I was already familiar with Wendy MacNaughton’s work from her books, so I was happy to see her featured on the wonderful website In The Make, which offers fascinating behind the scenes tours of the studios of West Coast artists. Based on the photo below, I thought Wendy definitely qualified as a sketchbook addict! … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Wendy MacNaughton
Vadim Gordim has invented a pen loop called the Sidekick, available here. Jeff has invented a titanium notebook cover, available here. Dave wants you to check out his site NanamiPaper.com. They sell Japanese notebooks and the same Tomoe River paper that is used in Design-Y notebooks. Lara recommends you check out a … Continue reading Assorted Notebook Tips
Rendr Sketchbooks are a new product from Crescent Artists. Their main claim to fame is that the pages are 100% bleed-proof. Now that is a pretty audacious claim. The only sketchbook I’ve ever found to be almost completely show-through-proof and bleed-proof was the Stillman and Birn 270 GSM Zeta series, which has a very thick … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Rendr Sketchbooks
I have built up a nice little stash of notebooks in one of my desk drawers at work… the problem is that I keep being distracted from my job by having to open the drawer and peek at them…
This week’s addict is the blogger at the Well-Appointed Desk, who says: “I was pulling everything out of my bag this morning to get situated at work. One, two, three… four… five! I found five notebooks in my bag and realized that maybe I had too many notebooks going at one time…” Five notebooks sitting … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: The Well-Appointed Desk
A commenter named Thao had this question in response to my post about hoarding notebooks for the future: “My question for you is how do you repurpose a notebook after its initial use fizzles out? Like projects that never finish or die out and you’ve already devoted 10% of the pages to it. Do you … Continue reading Re-Starting a Fizzled-Out Notebook?
I quite sympathize with this person– it’s nice to get notebooks as gifts, but on the other hand they are very personal and what do you do if someone gives you one and you don’t know what to do with it? “When your family knows you’re a writer you get notebooks for presents, especially when … Continue reading “The Pressures of a Really Good Notebook”
Can you judge a notebook by its cover? Perhaps! I was very excited to get these samples from Halaby Aero. The first time I saw these notebooks at Paper Presentation in NYC, I immediately thought they were cool. I have no day to day use for any of the airplane-related info on the covers, but … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Halaby Aero Flightbook Notebooks
In honor of Labor Day, let’s talk about notebooks used at work, whether it be in an office, or on a construction site, or in a laboratory, or in a classroom, or wherever and however workers use notebooks. I had food service jobs in college and didn’t really use notebooks for that, other than to … Continue reading Labor Day: Notebooks at Work