Here’s another brand of cool, retro-looking notebooks. Love those marbled edges! And the labels! And the corners! They’re handmade in Portugal and come with various color spines. You can buy them online here. Via emilio braga notebooks | Design*Sponge.
Have you ever wanted to make your own hand-bound notebook but weren’t quite sure how? There are people out there who will teach you: Simple Handmade Books at Brooklyn Brainery: Inspired by our recent bookbinding class, we’ve been making lots and lots of notebooks lately. So for this month’s Sunday party, we’ll show you the [...]
I got an email a while back from a reader named Hope, who along with her husband runs this Etsy shop specializing in hand-decorated journals, cards and postcards. Among their products are Writersblok and Moleskine notebooks with some cool designs: Check out the wares at Blackbird and Peacock.
Remember Deafmessanger? I reviewed one of these handmade notebooks from Prague a while back and loved it, but they were only sold at a few small shops in the US. Well now I am happy to report that my friends at LoveNotebooks are now distributing these beautiful journals, and sent me a sample to give [...]
I love it when I get emails that begin like this: “My name is Cassie, and I’m a notebook addict. I’m sending you some pictures of my collection.” Here’s what Cassie has to say: I love, love, love notebooks. I’ve been scribbling ever since I could hold a pen, and keeping a journal seriously since [...]
Comfortable Shoes Studio is a seller of handmade journals, notebooks and paintings on ArtFire. I forget how I stumbled across them, but I am glad I did, as they have some very nice-looking notebooks! These little jotters are $7.99 for a set of six, which seems like a good value: Various designs are available. Here’s [...]
Here’s an interesting look at someone who’s made several Japanese album-type sketchbooks using a roll of watercolor paper and some wallpaper samples for the covers: See more at Concertina Sketchbooks » Creative Fidget.
Here’s a neat tutorial on how to make cute little notebooks out of library cards: Find out more at paper n stitch – Make These: Little Library Card Notebooks – A daily dose of handmade, design, and style inspiration.
“Deafmessanger” is Kucin, an artist living in Prague. He sells his notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks and postcards in lots of locations around Europe, as well as at Bluestockings and Spoonbill and Sugartown here in NYC. He contacted me a few months ago and offered me a sample journal to review– when I took a look at [...]
Check out these great looking notebooks on Etsy: b a s t i a n o notebooks on Etsy. Unfortunately, it looks like the shop is on hiatus at the moment, but the Etsy page gives contact information and it sounds like more notebooks will be for sale again at a later date.
