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 [...]

I bought this notebook almost 3 years ago and only just recently got around to unwrapping it. I almost didn’t buy it– though I immediately coveted it when I saw it at A.I. Friedman in NYC, it was priced at $17.60, discounted from an even more ridiculous $22! It’s just a pretty standard pocket size [...]

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..

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.

It’s taken me forever to get around to reviewing these notebooks, despite having basically had someone else write it for me! Below are some comments and photos from Ted, a former addict of the week: Got my order of Calepino today. Basically the french Field Notes. Right down to some of the wording on the [...]

I don’t even remember how I stumbled across this, but it looks pretty cool, even if you’re not a die-hard Indiana Jones fan: The guy who created this also offers similar products for the Hobbit and other films and TV shows, and can rebind journals in real leather, with an aged look and rubbed corners. [...]

This is one of my favorite reader-submitted photos ever– meet Tholakele, a 5-year old from South Africa.  On a trip to Paris, left the toy department at Le Bon Marché empty handed and instead picked out a notebook and pen and ink set for herself, which she tried out the minute she and her mother [...]