The beautiful notebooks above only hint at the amazing work inside them… but they also come with a sad story. Dan Eldon was a young photojournalist who was killed by an angry mob in Somalia in 1993, along with 3 of his colleagues. “Dan left behind seventeen bound leather journals filled with drawings, writings and … Continue reading Dan Eldon’s Journals
Here’s a few notebooks spotted in assorted advertisements and articles: From the New York Times obituary of theater critic Stanley Kauffman: From the Wall Street Journal magazine, designer Marc Newson’s sketchbooks, among other favorite things. Also from the Wall Street Journal magazine, a Moleskine seems to be a favorite tool of Nike … Continue reading Notebooks Spottings
A relic of the Beat Generation: “The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, acquired the archive of American poet Peter Orlovsky (1933–2010), an important figure in the Beat Generation. Orlovsky was fellow poet Allen Ginsberg’s companion for more than 40 years, and his papers reflect … Continue reading Peter Orlovsky’s Notebook
This week’s addict wrote a guest post at pensetc about her love of notebooks: “1986. A “Wuzzles†notebook and pencil. My first session at The Brownies. I took notes. 1987. A blue, A5 hardback lined notebook. Torquay, Devon on a family holiday. I wrote poetry. 1989. My cousin’s pale green typewriter from the late sixties … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Danielle
This week’s addict is another find via the excellent Sharing Our Notebooks site. Cynthia is a writer, illustrator and art teacher who has been keeping sketchbooks for years and often looks back at the old ones to find inspiration for new work. Here’s some of her sketchbooks: Read more about Cynthia and see … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Cynthia Iannaccone
This week’s addict blogs at Mixed Martial Arts & Crafts, where she posted this photo of all the notebooks she is currently using for various purposes, including an idea capture journal, writing journal, and a page-a-day diary/logbook. She says she also has “a ton more that are all used and a few that are empty … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Vanessa
I liked the look of the notebooks in the image below, from a rare book dealer’s listing of the “Kupferberg and Topp Collection”: The Kupferberg and Topp Collection reflects Tuli’s literary, musical, artistic, and political career, as well as Tuli and Sylvia’s publishing work with Birth Press and theatrical work with the Revolting Theater. … Continue reading Tuli Kupferberg’s Notebooks
There was an interesting feature at Flavorwire on the writing tools of famous authors. Unfortunately, most of the examples just include a photo of the author rather than the writing tools themselves, but here’s a notable exception: It’s J. K. Rowling‘s plans for writing Harry Potter, on a sheet of looseleaf paper. Wow. See … Continue reading What Famous Authors Write With
A couple of links about Moleskine’s Postal Notebooks: A review at Inktronics: Special Guest Post by Bogon07 Moleskine Postal Notebook The review is hand-written in the notebook itself, over several pages including the one below: The bleed-through looks pretty bad with those fountain pen inks, so using other types of pens or pencils is recommended. … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Postal Notebook
Peaches emailed me lots of photos of her collection, and some musings on the various brands of notebooks she’s tried… but I think she’ll keep trying even more: “I still haven’t found the 100% perfect notebook, which would have thick, off-white plain paper and be a hardback just under A5 size. The closest I … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Peaches