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So cute. The description sounds like a nursery poem:
"::4 bright booklets in a soft fold box::
letterpress printed cover
“sand dollar” pattern on all 4 books
1. blue-grey stock
3.625" × 5"
staple bound on a cute little spine
24 brightly colored text pages in each booklet
4 colors :: marigold, fuschia, aqua, lemon
organize by color!"
The Bright Booklets Set @ Supermarket
Pictured: A repurposed copy of the15th Annual Philadelphia Book Show, which is described as "a bit like a firehouse burning down, but irony aside, it contained pictures and descriptions of some of the most intriguing book in the show!"
HOBO ARONA rescues the left-behind books (most of which date from 1890 to 1960) of the world, turning them from forgotten texts into usable art - as journals, photo albums, sketch books, stationary, and boxes. Each piece is hand-selected for quality, quirk and uniqueness, making Hobo Arona's handiwork one-of-a-kind pieces that will preserve your whatever forever.
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"This baby is a limited edition of 1000 and runs from October 2008 through March 2010 (Is it 2010 already?). The sturdy chipboard backing is 5.5″w x 8.5″ tall, with stapled-tear-off months. If you’re going to stare at a calendar for eighteen months, it oughta be this one..."
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.
Chris Miesenzahl recently got hold of the Awagami + 1 Journal and posted his comments:
"Right off the bat this thing feels solid and professional, not cheap or flimsy...
The cover is hard, maybe slightly less flexible that the equivalent size large Moleskine..."
Read the full review with photos at his blog.
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Update 9.25.08
Nick Carr reviews the same notebook at Black Cover.
Breck shared his opinions of the Field Notes:
"You can see for yourself below how much pride of provenance DDC/CP take in their product. When manufacturers put this all out there, you know they believe in what they're doing. Sometimes the product is still junk (I'm looking at you, Tom's of Maine GingerMint toothpaste. Why wait all night to develop morning breath when you can just squeeze it straight from a tube?), but it's still nice to see sources and methods listed.
Other printing on this book includes absolutely perfectly proportioned and placed blocks to put owner info, record the dates of use, and offer or decline to offer a reward if lost and found..."
Nick Carr's latest post is a review of Quo Vadis's Habana notebook:
"the Habana strikes me more as a business product than one for taking on
your travels or sketching in, which makes sense. After all, Quo Vadis
got their start in simple, matter-of-fact agendas for the office. I
think there is promise in the notebook - I like the cover texture and
flexibility, and the excellent way in which the notebook can be opened
flat to any page including the first. I think it just needs a bit of
shrinking, especially the cover borders, and an upgrade in paper. I’m
pretty sure you have the ability to “bio-whiten” this to a range of
colors, and something a bit warmer and inviting would make a world of
difference. The goal should be to make you want to take the Habana to
Havana, not the conference room...."
Read the full article at Black Cover
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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.
Rob Walker's "Consumed" column in The New York Times Magazine featured Jessica Helfand's new book, "Scrapbooks: An American History into the digital age."
"Many of the images reproduced in “Scrapbooks: An American History,” by Jessica Helfand, date back 50, 80, even 100 years. Reproduced in color and spread across wide pages, they are treated as worthy examples of creativity. The anonymous scrapbook creators could hardly have imagined such a fate for their work. Whatever audience they had in mind, it surely did not include a design critic ruminating over this “evocative” and “largely overlooked class of artifact.” In the 21st century, of course, scrapbooking is a multibillion-dollar affair, with specialty publications and businesses serving a huge market of self-documentarians. By and large, their work has little aesthetic resemblance to what Helfand has compiled. And while contemporary “scrappers” may not be thinking about future historians, a good number are thinking about an audience — and it isn’t just the grandkids..."
[Cross posted at our partner site, Moleskinerie.com]
Rob Walker's "Consumed" column in The New York Times Magazine featured Jessica Helfand's new book, "Scrapbooks: An American History into the digital age."
"Many of the images reproduced in “Scrapbooks: An American History,” by Jessica Helfand, date back 50, 80, even 100 years. Reproduced in color and spread across wide pages, they are treated as worthy examples of creativity. The anonymous scrapbook creators could hardly have imagined such a fate for their work. Whatever audience they had in mind, it surely did not include a design critic ruminating over this “evocative” and “largely overlooked class of artifact.” In the 21st century, of course, scrapbooking is a multibillion-dollar affair, with specialty publications and businesses serving a huge market of self-documentarians. By and large, their work has little aesthetic resemblance to what Helfand has compiled. And while contemporary “scrappers” may not be thinking about future historians, a good number are thinking about an audience — and it isn’t just the grandkids..."
[Cross posted at our partner site, Moleskinerie.com]
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