I stumbled across these notebooks via Notizbuchblog.de and love the concept! They are blank journals with various pages of full-color illustrations and information interspersed, so you can learn about a subject while making your own notes about it. The series includes Astronomy, Weather, Butterflies (due February 2018), Home, and Trees. When I first saw the … Continue reading Observer’s Notebooks
I found this via the Journaling Junkie Tumblr page, which offers a wealth of beautiful art journal images. This one is from another Tumblr user who goes by vmaddesso: That is a ton of journals! Lots of variety on the top shelves, and then all those labeled composition books on the bottom! vmaddesso says: A … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: vmaddesso
I love these images of Katherine Miller’s handmade sketchbooks: Katherine Miller is a printmaker and sculptor from St. Louis, Missouri. Through her print- and book arts-based work, she references the handwritten letter to explore themes of slowness, distance, embodiment, and emotional intimacy. In her sketchbooks, she collects things she doesn’t want to forget. She uses her sketchbook as a … Continue reading Katherine Miller’s Sketchbooks
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, was famous for always carrying a pocket notebook in which he jotted notes and ideas. After seeing this mentioned in various books, I was curious to see what kind of notebooks he used. A little research brought me to the website of The Henry Ford, which comprises … Continue reading Notebooks Used by Henry and Edsel Ford
What a great story! Bhintuna “Jya poo” couldn’t find the kind of notebooks she wanted in Nepal, so she started a company to make them. Bhav has now been in business for 3 years. When Bhintuna started looking for the kind of stationery that she often stumbled upon on the internet, she realised that the … Continue reading Bhav Notebooks from Nepal
I was in my local Barnes & Noble the other day and noticed something I hadn’t seen before: medium sized Moleskine notebooks with real leather covers instead of the usual faux leather. Moleskine does occasionally have some limited editions that use real leather– there were some really cool planners years ago– but it’s rare. I … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Leather Classic Notebooks at B&N
This week’s addict must have recently moved into a new home when this photo was taken, as she has just unpacked her journals and sketchbooks onto these shelves: it’s starting to feel more like home I look forward to having this same happy feeling someday, as I’ve just packed up most of my notebooks to … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Tuscan Rose
If you happen to be in New York in the next few days, you might want to check out the “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez” exhibition about the history of Louis Vuitton, especially since it’s free! Some of it is just advertising for the brand, but what makes it interesting is that it looks back at the … Continue reading Louis Vuitton Exhibition in NYC
A very interesting article about the history of the iconic Tsubame notebook, created by Watanabe Hatsusaburō. In the heady days of the early postwar era, Watanabe Hatsusaburō, founder of the Tokyo-based stationery maker Tsubame, had one thing in mind: to make a high quality, inexpensive notebook. In 1947 he launched the Tsubame nōto, a simply … Continue reading The History of Japan’s Tsubame Notebook
This is from a couple of months ago, a notebook that belonged to Agatha Christie was being auctioned: Crime novelist Agatha Christie’s handwritten notebook in which she plotted ideas for one of her detective novels is up for auction. The 1948, “regular, off-the-shelf†bound notebook, which features a hand-drawn ink sketch Christie made to illustrate … Continue reading Agatha Christie’s Notebook