I love these scanned notebook pages containing the creativity manifesto of Frederick Terral. (Hard to say what brand of notebook it is, but I’m guessing it could be a Piccadilly): Good advice! Read more about other inspiring messages and manifestos for creative people at Five Manifestos for the Creative Life | Brain Pickings.
I love these gorgeous watercolor sketchbook pages from Catherine’s Costa Rica sketchbook: See more at birdspot » A few more sketchbook pages…
Tips for decorating a plain Moleskine cahier notebook with a cheery floral pattern: Read more at fellowfellow – DIY Watercolour Notebooks.
David Bogie shared a couple of great tips: first, this interesting notebook, used to record games of Go. I remember trying to play Go with my dad sometimes when I was a kid, or more frequently, Gomoku, which is much simpler. I certainly never got to the level of having to record my games, but … Continue reading Tips from Readers
This week’s addict is an artist who makes very funky dolls and other decorative arts. She left a post on my Facebook wall, linking to this lovely shelf of well-used sketchbooks: Check out the original post for a look inside some of these sketchbooks: Where Do Dolls Come From? – Deborah Grayson Studios.
Look Between the Lines is a fabulous blog with entries showing page spreads from the author’s visual journal, along with commentary about how they were conceived and executed. As a bonus, each entry includes a “challenge” to readers– an exercise to help kick off your own visual journaling! Here’s one image I particularly liked:
We live in a digital age, yet sales of good old fashioned paper are way up. Why? An article in the Guardian provides quite a good answer: We all love stationery (some more moderately and tastefully than others). But why? It seems to me to offer two great and seductive promises. The first is that … Continue reading Why We Love Stationery
I was browsing around on Flickr and found this image that mentioned that it was the person’s first Moleskine page. It made me wonder what mine was, so I dug around in my boxes of notebooks to find it… I started my first Moleskine sketchbook sometime in 2001, I think. The very first page is … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: First Page
Very cute! (if you don’t mind egregious misuse of apostrophes): Read more at richard holloway: tricky notebooks.
I came across an interesting story a while back about Huldra Press, owned by Marianne Dages. She makes letterpress cards and prints, as well as bound journals using recycled papers. “I started making books like this because I was always kind of afraid of starting a perfectly white, blank book,” she said. “So, my idea … Continue reading Huldra Press