Tips for decorating a plain Moleskine cahier notebook with a cheery floral pattern: Read more at fellowfellow – DIY Watercolour Notebooks.
David Bogie shared a couple of great tips: first, this interesting notebook, used to record games of Go. I remember trying to play Go with my dad sometimes when I was a kid, or more frequently, Gomoku, which is much simpler. I certainly never got to the level of having to record my games, but [...]
I agree! These are from a post at Design Crush: See more at Design Crush » I Like Notebooks and I Cannot Lie.
Maps and notebooks, always a great combination! design: Contexture Design manufacture: Made in Canada materials: 100% recycled paper; reclaimed map cover. Staple-bound. dimensions: 5.25″ wide x 8″ tall; contains 48 pages Price: $15.00 Available from: Branch See more at Mapbook — ACCESSORIES — Better Living Through Design.
This is something I’ve thought about doing for a while: keeping all your favorite recipes easily indexed in an address book: If you’ve been cooking for awhile, you probably have an arsenal of go-to recipes, dishes you can whip up from memory, but sometimes — especially when it comes to baking — you need to [...]
This week’s addict is an artist who makes very funky dolls and other decorative arts. She left a post on my Facebook wall, linking to this lovely shelf of well-used sketchbooks: Check out the original post for a look inside some of these sketchbooks: Where Do Dolls Come From? – Deborah Grayson Studios.
Bookstores in Moscow have an unlikely stationery fad: notebooks with the brutal dictator Josef Stalin on the cover. In his generalissimo uniform with a chest full of medals, Stalin now proudly stares from notebook covers on a shelf of the Pedagogical Book House store in downtown Moscow less than a mile from the Kremlin. Customers, [...]
Look Between the Lines is a fabulous blog with entries showing page spreads from the author’s visual journal, along with commentary about how they were conceived and executed. As a bonus, each entry includes a “challenge” to readers– an exercise to help kick off your own visual journaling! Here’s one image I particularly liked:
We live in a digital age, yet sales of good old fashioned paper are way up. Why? An article in the Guardian provides quite a good answer: We all love stationery (some more moderately and tastefully than others). But why? It seems to me to offer two great and seductive promises. The first is that [...]
I was browsing around on Flickr and found this image that mentioned that it was the person’s first Moleskine page. It made me wonder what mine was, so I dug around in my boxes of notebooks to find it… I started my first Moleskine sketchbook sometime in 2001, I think. The very first page is [...]
