This week’s addict displays this lovely scattered pile of completed notebooks on Instagram: I love all those raggedy edges and stuffed covers! And I want to see the pile of blank notebooks too! Check out Mara’s Instagram feed for even more, including sketchbooks she has handbound and the beautiful art she creates inside them: @mararhum
Happy Phantom is a notebook addict with a happy dilemma: which of these beauties to use next? I spy Moleskine, Leuchtturm, Paperblanks, maybe Midori, and some other brands I don’t recognize. See more of Happy Phantom’s notebooks (and fountain pens!) on Instagram.
This week’s addict is on Instagram as @schreibaerin, where her beautiful photos of nature and landscapes are often joined by photos of her extensive notebook collection. These are some of my favorites! The Waverley Scottish tartan notebooks: Some fun color themes, including Moleskine, Paperblanks, Leuchtturm and others. Fun shapes! Her collection, or at least part … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Martina Herbst→
What a lovely display of notebooks and pencils, from the Instagram account of xanelachic. I recognize a couple of brands from Portugal, similar to ones in my own collection: Serrote Letterpress (the white one that says “caderno”) and Emilio Braga (the hardcover with contrasting spine and corners at bottom left). Source: Xanelachic’s original post on … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: xanelachic→
This week’s addict is Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian. I’d read an article about him that mentioned he’d used over 200 Moleskines so far, so these must be just a few of them, featured on his Instagram account:
This week’s addict is another Reddit user, who posted the image below of his tidy and consistent collection: Notebooks. It’s not fancy, but each month I put it on the shelf and grab a new one. I used to have nice notebooks, but then I tried to standardize and reduce the barrier to drawing. I … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: e2g4→
Tina was a Notebook Addict of the Week back in 2014, when she showed us her collection of hand-bound sketchbooks. She is still a dedicated Urban Sketcher, and has also done quite a bit of traveling. This time, Tina shares her collection of travel journals: [Above] is a photo of the whole collection: several Moleskines … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week (Again): Tina Koyama→
I found this week’s addict on Instagram. Ironbark Journals is an Etsy seller of hand-stitched travelers notebook covers, but the photo below is her personal collection. So. Much. Leather.
This week’s addict is another Reddit find. You can see an inventory by brand in the comments on the original post. (A lot of Moleskine and Muji, as well as Fabriano and some others.) I love those two fabulously overstuffed ones on the top! some of my notebooks! Most are unused.
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…