Another clipping from the New York Times Style Magazine (Dec. 4, 2010)– my eyes went right to the sketchbooks in the middle: Here’s a close-up: Yes, she’s beautiful and smart and a talented artist, but aren’t you most envious of the fact that her husband makes her leather-covered notebooks!?
Some nice-looking pages here: Another Moleskine Comes to an End. See more posts about Moleskines at Serenastyle Blog, including this lovely overstuffed notebook: I love how the pasted-in items have made it so chunky, yet the edges are still so tidy!
Here’s a book that’s at the top of my wishlist: Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers. You can see more of the book in this article and slide show.
Here’s an exhibit I plan on checking out in the near future: “The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives,” at the Morgan Library in New York. The exhibit includes these lovely items: A diary jointly kept by Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: John Ruskin’s chess diary: You can see more images in … Continue reading Morgan Library Exhibit: “The Diary”
I like this collection of faces, all done in a reporter-style Moleskine: See more at chaosboy industry – Milan, Italy – Moleskine sketches collection.
This week’s addict posts this photo of some colorful notebooks: She says: This is my current stack of new notebooks, as my in-use notebooks are all too grimy and worn-looking to make a decent photo. Of course I think grimy, worn-looking notebooks make great photos and wish she’d shared them! Read more at A Paperback … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: A Paperback Writer
Here’s a bit of inspiration, an article torn from the NY Times Style Magazine a few weeks ago about scrapbooks kept by designers and socialites. I love the idea of just collecting inspiring images and filling page after page with them…
I was quite excited to see these Moleskine pages by Australian artist Rod Luff– I”m not sure exactly what kinds of materials he’s using, but the intense colors are amazing– some of his pages look like the kind of rich, intense oil paintings you’d only expect to see being done on an easel, not in … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Rod Luff’s Painterly Pages
This week’s addict is Mr. Dan Kelly, a writer who blogs at Gentleman Unafraid and offers us this pile of journals– every one he’s kept since 1986, with consistent daily entries since 1995. That’s some discipline!
Brittany, who describes herself as “a thirteen-year-old writer of middle-grade fiction,” offers some good ideas for everyone who has a hoard of notebooks and can’t think of what to do with them. Here’s idea #1: 1. Keep a dream journal.- I’ve gotten some good story ideas from dreams, or at least little bits of story. … Continue reading 10 Uses for Spare Notebooks