notebookism

Inspiration: A Field Guide to Weeds

A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. This project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the reader’s attention to the overlooked.

A Field Guide to Weeds
By Kim Beck
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc. 2007
Cloth cover, sewn-bound, 96 p., 17.5 x 11.8cm, edition 750
ISBN: 978-0-89439-026-5

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Drawbone By Ming Tong

This “Drawbone” highlight pen by Ming Tong.  A “bone” shape highlight pen that can be joint together to form a longer bone.

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Blank Page # 107

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Banana Leaf Notebooks

You can't get greener than these:)

" Re-Leaf Studio, based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is a green design studio dedicated to green design product specializes in paper making from natural materials. We believe that sustainable design is the solution for the future, and also the world and humans are the one. Therefore, we try our best to design products from natural, reused and unwanted materials to reduce material consuming..."

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Thanks to C. Suksai.

Notebooks for Left-handed, Right-handed and Ambidextrous People

Now here's a concept:

Observing peoples posture when writing, most of us would twist our body and notebooks which becomes quite uncomfortable, especially when the paper sizes get bigger, or when the space around you is small. Also it would not do your spine any good.

For my notebooks, I redesigned traditional looks and made the ruled lines slightly slanted in right angles and direction, through research, for the right-handed, left-handed and ambidextrous people. It becomes easy to write even when you put your notebook straight in front of you and also would help you to correct your habit.       

© Copyright Jeeyun Chung 2008

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Project: Plans Unfolding

PLANS UNFOLDING is a new software program for creating a pocket-sized paper organizer and planner customized for the layout and content that you want. Choose from among several standard page types supported by the interface, or create custom page designs and share them online. Use background images downloaded from the image gallery or use your own photographs. Print the output on a color printer, make a few folds and one cut, and you have a convenient booklet with every one of its 16 pages accessible.

Learn more.

[Thanks to Jeff Burke for the link tip!]

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To-do list holder

A nifty little project from Stephanie Levy's A Little Hut:

"When it comes to lists I'm still more of a pen + paper kind of gal. I needed a little something to keep the small ones more organized. A scrap of linen, a small piece of chip board that I had in my scrap drawer, some ironing and a glue gun was all that I needed to make this to-do list holder. I wanted something firm to write on and compact enough to tuck into a handbag. The sheets I will write on will be index cards or cut down sheets of paper from my recycle stash..."

Learn how

[Craftzine via Erasergirl]

Text and image © 2008 Stephanie Levy All Rights Reserved.

Blank Page # 107

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Every Wednesday at Notebookism we open a "Blank Page" -  your chance to ask, answer and discuss anything notebook-related.  Keep it nice, keep it relevant.

Blank Page, an Open Thread.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Хак атласа дорог Москвы.Moscow roadmap book hack.

Hello!

I'm Nikolay Novikov from Moscow, Russia.

While we all here're waiting for Moleskine Moscow citynotebook, I made few steps in this direction and want to introduce my "Moscow roadmap book (atlas) hack".

I bought small (in A6 format) automobile atlas of Moscow.

While maps were printed very good and clear, cover of the book was terrible - wery soft, with bad design, etc.

So I made these small changes.
This took about 3.5 hours of work.

You can see it in my Flickr photostream:
http://flickr.com/photos/noizze/sets/72157606674342988/

Description in English:

Mosckow atlas hack

1. New orange hard cover.
2. Plastic cover for multiply path marking.All marks making with marker,
for erase You can use usual paper or cotton wool.
3. Rounded corners.
4. Four color silk stripes as bookmarks.
5. An elastic closure.
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WBR, Nikolay Novikov

[Spasibo, Nikolay!]

Book: "Drawing from Life"

I can't start this blog without mentioning one of my favorite books...evar:)

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal As Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.

Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers—an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few—illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore.

For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to—or tried and failed—it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art (Paperback)
by Jennifer New

Amazon link

I can't start this blog without mentioning one of my favorite books...evar:)

Who hasn't, at one time or other, kept a journal? The impulse to record our daily lives on paper is nothing if not universal. Still, only a few of us have the discipline to make it past the first few entries, and fewer still manage to create diaries whose insight and visual beauty can inspire anyone but their authors. Drawing from Life: The Journal As Art is an exploration of these exceptions—books of obsessive wonder filled to their borders with drawings, sketches, watercolors, graphs, charts, lists, collages, portraits, and photographs.

Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers—an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few—illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore.

For those who already keep a journal, Drawing from Life will be an inspiration. For those who have always wanted to—or tried and failed—it might just be the motivation needed to get past that first week.

Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art (Paperback)
by Jennifer New

Amazon link