These notebooks by an Irish designer are too cute to save for St. Patrick’s Day: Read more at Fash Mob » Buying Irish – notebooks by Ursula Celano.
This notebook is one of the gems of my collection because I’ve never seen anything else quite like it. I must have bought this in the early 80s, at one of the various five-and-ten stores in my area. It’s just a generic mass-produced notebook. But this cover just fascinates me! There is something so weird [...]
Here’s one for soccer fans: an Arsenal Football Club Moleskine. I’m not sure if it’s literally a Moleskine brand notebook customized with the team’s logo and a red bookmark and elastic, or a lower-case M generic moleskine notebook. At $16.99 for a 5×8.5″ notebook, it seems too cheap not to be a knockoff. I suppose [...]
I think this is my favorite Moleskine partnership yet. It actually has a piece of Lego in the cover. My nephew is obsessed with Legos, so this might have to be his next birthday present! Read more at Daily Desired: A Lego-Compatible Moleskine Journal to Devise Secret, Brick-Based Schemes.
I went through a phase in the late 1990s when my notebook obsession was relatively dormant, because my lust for handheld data receptacles of a certain size and shape had displaced itself onto the Palm Pilot and its various descendents. PDAs were my addiction then: I bought (and resold) about 15 different models over about [...]
Here’s something that will ring a bell for many of you, as it did for me. It’s amazing how you can lose track of your tidying up when you get lost in the memories that old notebooks conjure up! So here it is another new year, and here I am once again, picking up and [...]
I spotted Wild & Wolf’s Qwerty line of products in a local store and just loved the idea: notebooks and other products with old style typewriter motifs! I contacted the company and they were kind enough to send me not only a sample Qwerty journal, but another funky notebook as well. Let’s take a look: [...]
Country singer Hayes Carll talks about how certain kinds of notebooks make you think you’ll fill them with great stuff… sounds like he’s a notebook addict! Do you keep a journal now? I’m pretty bad about it. I have a certain embarrassment over my own writing. It’s odd, because it’s the thing that no [...]
Catching up on my correspondence again! Allegra Newman writes to tell us about her book, 365 Things to Write About: “[The book] offers exactly 365 people, places, object, and ideas on blank, lined pages where people can write their responses. My writing partner and I created it as a different way to jumpstart our brains [...]
Wow, if this isn’t a hot current events post, I don’t know what is! Ok, there’s a lot more at stake in North Korea than what kind of notebooks Kim Jong-Il’s henchmen are using, but I’m fascinated nonetheless. If this is some home-grown North Korean brand, it could be the most challenging notebook ever to [...]
