@DIYSara @alpratt I bought some more Uniball Signo RT 0.38s. They are wonderfully fine and smooth! JetPens is wonderful. # anyone else having dreamhost problems? my site is down again… # JenPens order arrived! Lotsa pretty colors… # RT @doanepaper What’s the best spiral bound notebook size? 3×5 and 8.5×11 are my faves. # RT … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-18
This is from the New York Times website: After news of President Lincoln’s assassination reached New York, in all arteries and capillaries of the city, shopkeepers designed makeshift shrines to the martyred president. An anonymous diarist walked for miles, drawing sketches of as many storefronts as he could (evidence suggests, but does not confirm, that … Continue reading Lincoln Memorial Diary
I like the covers on these, and am tempted to try to make something similar: apparently they’re held together with just a hair elastic and a bamboo stick. At Screen Prints Blog.
At From the Living Room, some musings on “My Notebook“: It used to be that my notebook was the most important thing in my handbag. It used to be that I would get through a notebook in a matter of months. I have a box full of used notebooks, each with the date they were … Continue reading Changes in How We Use Notebooks
The new extra-large Moleskine Folio line is now in stock at Amazon. Listing for all the 2010 planners and new City guides are also showing up, though they’re not in stock yet. You can see all the new items here. There are several pages to scroll through, so use these links if you are just … Continue reading Just Ordered Some New Moleskine Folio Items!
I discovered William Powhida’s work via Design Observer. These are not actual notebook pages, but very realistic drawings.
Spotted on The Sartorialist: A nice notebook is always the most important accessory!
This is very cool, a bookworm’s dream! I wonder if Amazon realized that their re-design of the Kindle would make it the same size as the larger Moleskines! According to the measurements on Amazon, the Kindle2 is 5.3 x 8 x.36 inches. A large Moleskine is 5.2 x 8.2 x .7 inches. So you’d have … Continue reading Moleskine + Kindle2 = Neat-o!
I snapped these photos during a recent trip to Philadelphia, where we stopped in to check out the Betsy Ross house. I have no idea what this notebook really has to do with Betsy Ross, but it was on display in a case there. It belonged to an artist/inventor named Charles Weisgerber. I have a … Continue reading A Notebook at the Betsy Ross House
I noticed the other day that I seemed to be rampaging through my latest notebook at a faster than usual pace. Have I just had more to write about? More to draw? More things to do and ideas to jot? I’m not sure, but part of the reason is definitely that I copied several pages … Continue reading From Old to New…