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
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
A nice little post from the Seattle Sketcher blog on the Seattle Times website:Â Seattle Sketcher | Like the Starbucks logo artist, I cant stop sketching | Seattle Times Newspaper. I enjoyed reading this story by my Times colleague Melissa Allison about the artist who created the Starbucks logo, Terry Heckler. I can relate to … Continue reading “I Can’t Stop Sketching”
Another beautiful Moleskine notebook gallery on the Behance site, this one by Anna Rusakova. I love the collage/scrapbook elements and the detailed art. See more at my moleskine on the Behance Network.
David Fullarton is one of my favorite notebook artists. He usually works in engineer’s notebooks, but now he’s given Moleskine a whirl: I was never a big fan of Moleskine notebooks. They always seemed so damn precious and overpriced with their pretentious history printed inside and that fancy-dan knicker elastic to keep your place. But someone … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: David Fullarton
I love catching people using notebooks on the subway. This man was drawing with a pencil in what I’m pretty sure was a Moleskine.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a wonderful children’s book by Brian Selznick, told in words and gorgeous pictures. Part of the story revolves around a notebook full of sketches of a mechanical man: The notebook is a key part of the plot- I won’t spoil the rest!
I found this image at a blog called Robobop that unfortunately no longer seems to be active. It was from a post about Moleskine drawings during a trip to New York City. I hope the blog comes back someday, I’d love to see more!
Weekly Moleskine features Moleskine art from various contributors each week. They are open to submissions. I rather liked this one below, by Joe Veen.
I forget how I came across this week’s addict, but I loved this post about all of her sketchbooks, with photos and comments about her art works and methods: Above are some photographs of the notebooks/sketchbooks/journals I have around the Apt. The open book in Photo #1 is the oldest book I still have, it … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Kat Walk Designs