Notebook Stories

Wow, this is amazingly cool: To celebrate the forthcoming Van Gogh at Work exhibition and the 160th anniversary of the great artist’s birth, the Folio Society and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, are producing the first-ever facsimiles of the artist’s sketchbooks, limited to just 1,000 copies. The four intact sketchbooks, which span much of Van [...]

I spotted these colorful notebooks a while back and loved the way they look together:     You can buy them via this UK online shop. via Grafika Notebook Set — Desk Accessories — Better Living Through Design.

The folks at Cool Material sent me a nice batch of their recently introduced “Word.” notebooks. These are a staple-bound notebook in the vein of Field Notes and the Moleskine cahiers, but with a unique page format. First impressions: I love the cover designs, in cool colors and camouflage patterns. They came packaged very beautifully [...]

Our friends at Lovenotebooks are celebrating the colors of spring! Lovenotebooks carries a wide selection of eco-friendly Paperthinks notebooks and stationery items in all these gorgeous colors. Paperthinks notebooks are made with 100% recycled leather covers with paper with 50% recycled content inside. This week, you can enter to win the Paperthinks prize package pictured [...]

Tlacuache Notebooks are made in Mexico. On their Facebook page, they recently shared some photos of work in progress– pretty cool! And here’s some of the finished products: I may need to take a trip to Mexico to check these out! See more at Tlacuache Notebooks..

Moleskine has really been expanding their range of themed “Passions” journals, each designed to help users keep track of various interests such as Restaurants, Books, Home Life, Cats, Beer, Chocolate, Coffee, Gardening, Wellness, and more. Now they are introducing the most passionate Passions volume yet: The Moleskine Passions Sex Journal! This is a family-friendly site [...]

Here’s one notebook I don’t think I need to own, a writer’s journal tie-in to the bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey books by E. L. James: “Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess: A Journal” is to be published May 1 and is a writer’s journal, seeded with quotes and inspiration from James’ trilogy. Some of [...]

Spotted at JetPens, a very cute notebook with an unusual plastic wire-o binding you can open and close to remove or rearrange pages: See more at Lihit Lab Aqua Drops Twist Ring Memo Notepad – 2.8″ X 4.7″ – 5 mm Graph – 40 Sheets – Black Cover – JetPens.com.

These look pretty swanky– Moleskine custom editions for Shanghai Tang with snakeskin patterned covers:   And the prices are pretty swanky too– $47-59 for a large size Moleskine! (13 x 21cm) See more at Product search feature on Shanghai Tang eshop | Shanghai Tang Website.

I think I first came across this notebook on the Blick website. It comes in several sizes, and I was excited to see that one of them was 3.5 x 5.5″, a rare size for sketchbooks. I went to the Blick retail store in Manhattan to see if I could check one out in person, [...]