Did anyone else attend one of these events:Â Â Moleskine Words in N.Y. City? I did! I went over to A. I. Friedman, which is one of my favorite places to browse notebooks, and they had a table set up in the front of the store, with a throng of people around it already. A friendly Moleskine … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Moleskine Words in N.Y. City→
I came across an interesting interview with Drew Bryant, who works as a designer for a branding/exhibit design firm, but also loves to draw in his spare time. Here’s a few outtakes: What sparked your passion for drawing? Since I was a young child I have loved to draw. It really has came and went … Continue reading Drew Bryant Talks About Keeping a Sketchbook→
This sounds like a fun event… and it’s at one of my favorite NYC stationery stores. Maybe I’ll see you there! How many stories can be written with a box of 400 different words? How many can you create? Join author and host of the Happy Ending Reading Series, Amanda Stern, and MoMA educator and … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Moleskine Words Comes to New York City→
This week’s addict posted a photo of this lovely shelf on her blog: Â Cacy asks: Are you a pen-and-paper person? Or do you go straight to the computer and start tp-tp-tptptp-ing away? Me? I love a good notebook. What is it about the chaos of keeping my ideas in barely legible writing across a … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Cacy→
Design Work Life is always a great source of cool visuals, including some fabulous sketchbook spreads from a variety of artists:   Mette Hornung Rankin’s conÂtriÂbuÂtion to The Sketchbook Project: Things That Stick.  See more at design work life » Things That Stick. Some work by Nick Iluzada:  See more at design work … Continue reading Sketchbook Envy at Design Work Life→
I love this photo of a beat-up, falling apart, well-loved sketchbook. It belongs to Mr. Warburton, an animator and the creator of the Cartoon Network series Codename: Kids Next Door. See more drawings from inside at warburtonlabs: ANOTHER VINTAGE SKETCHBOOK.
Remember Michael Bierut’s 86 notebooks? Well, he’s up to 90 now. And they’re in an exhibition with a really cool poster! Read more: Michael Bierut‘s ‘30 Years 90 Notebooks’ at College of Saint Rose | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.
Gabriel Campanario is the Seattle Sketcher I featured a few weeks ago in this post. He’s also the founder of Urban Sketchers, and was interviewed for a Japanese book called 61 Ways to Put Your Life into a Moleskine: Yoko Nakamuta, who knows how much some urban sketchers love their Moleskines, invited me to write … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: 61 Ways→
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…