moleskinerie

Random YouTube Find : Justin Murphy

Moleskine Cahiers with their easily customizable covers are popular with our younger readers and crafters. 

Like comfy jeans on the weekends, the Moleskine Cahier is casual yet durable. A journal for all occasions -- It's soft, light and fits in every pocket. A flexible cardboard cover houses the acid-free paper pages, while the thread stitching is visible on the spine. The back cover has a spacious pocket for notes or clippings, and the last 16 pages of each journal are detachable.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CAHIERS HERE.

Biennale of African Art, Dakar, May 2010.

 

The 25 selected notebooks from myDetour 5x5 will be exhibited in Dakar during the Biennale of African Art, in May 2010. Giorgio Milano is invited to Dakar. He was selected in Naples.

Learn more about the notebooks at Moleskine.com

Visit the Biennale de l art Africain website.

Robowhat in Japan

 Last of Australian artist Robert Scholten's uploads from his sketches on a recent trip to Japan. A bittersweet note:

"This batch actually marked the start of a new book. One of my aims with this book is to make more of an effort to be more experimental. These pictures mark the end of my stay in Japan. I was really quite sad to leave as I had a great time and there are some friends I might not see again..."

View all the sketches at Robert's blog, ROBOWHAT.

©2009 RS All Rights reserved

OPEN SESSION: The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion

Welcome to OPEN SESSION:  The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion.

Moleskinerie invites you, our visitors to share your thoughts on a special topic.

Today we want to know what kind of Moleskine user you are.

The Media Collective has a quiz for that. View the complete graphic at CORE-TOON and share your results with us.

Image: ©2009 Core77 All Rights reserved

Artist: lunchbreath

VIEW ALL OPEN SESSIONS HERE.

Moleskine in Honduras

Moleskine snaps from Central America via John in Nashville. Thanks!!

"I was in Honduras this week during the elections, and went up into the mountains to visit a family and take them some food. They gave me a cup of hot milk with sugar in their finest piece of "china". Here's a picture as it sits on my Moleskine."

 

Thick Moleskine Leather/Felt Cover

Many of the covers we've seen are made for the regular Moleskine. This one, available on Etsy from Antjes in Munich looks thick enough to accommodate the diaries and planners.  

Here's a description:

"Handcrafted/Sewed Moleskine Sleeve, made of calf leather and woolfelt. Closed with a leather band and a buckhorn button. 

The colour of the felt and the size is customizable. All kinds of Moleskine and other Notebooks are possible. One Penholder ist inclued. So, it solved the problem of the missing penholder with the moleskine."

Product link

(Thanks Jesse!!)

A Moleskine cover named Matt

Usual product naming protocol over at Millican bags, calling them after local heroes they admire. The leather Moleskine cover above is "Matt", a designer. 

" Hand crafted in England using bridle leather from the only remaining traditional oak bark tannery in Britain. The oak bark comes from renewable sources in the Lake District...."

Meet Matt and the rest

(Thanks to Danielle for the link)

J. Herbin on Moleskine

A happy discovery as reported by Inkophile, a combiination of the right pen, nib and ink that was just right on a Moleskine.

"The result was excellent. Not only is the writing nearly feather-free, the combination of ink color and ivory paper is soft and very appealing. In addition the mid-century pen coupled with the vintage looking journal is elegant and retr0 cool.."

Read the full review

OPEN SESSION: The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion

Welcome to OPEN SESSION:  The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion.

Moleskinerie invites you, our visitors to share your thoughts on a special topic.

Today it is "WHITE MOLESKINE"

For the first time, Moleskine has created a white-covered Moleskine. Your thoughts.

The first entirely white Moleskine notebook -- created exclusively for yoox.com, 240 pages, Hardcover, 2010 in English. 

Product link

(via Johnny Gamber)

VIEW ALL OPEN SESSIONS HERE.

"Molezine"

Andrea Joseph sent us an email about her latest project. 

"a little zine. My, er, 'Molezine'. I scanned and condensed one of my Moleskines into this tiny little booklet. Covers and all..."

Though technically not a Moleskine notebook, the precious scans from Andrea's stunning sketches are worth a mention. For your gift list, perhaps?'

Check it out.

Web Find: Art of Backpacking

Nice find on the Internets, the Art of Backpacking. Chockful of helpful advise from a couple of globetrotters. From their "About" page: 

Who is Art of Backpacking? What is the Art of Backpacking? We’re Mike and Teresa and we developed this site after our first trip backpacking abroad. It became a place to share our adventure with the world and now it is a place to inform others about the wonderful journey that is backpacking. It’s cutting travel costs, but not cutting the exciting elements of adventure. Our mission is to help you travel in style; to distinctive places and to have fun doing so!

Mention of a favorite notebook here.

News sketches from Robowhat

The latest sketches from Robert Scholten, an artist in Melbourne, Australia after a recent trip to Japan. Interesting use of different elements in the sketches on this batch, including stamps and lots of ink. About the scan above, he writes: " Hanging out, enjoying early morning coffee somwehere in Namba. Across from us were Pachinko parlours, with lines of people already queuing up. I was also fascinated by the pattern of tiles on the ground..."

MORE AT ROBOWHAT

©2009 Robert Sholten All Rights Reserved

Eternal love, or glitter.

We stumbled upon this quaint post by Victoria Hart, on her new Moleskine. Here's a snip.

"I’m afraid it’s probably quite a letdown – I’m no art student, and my Moleskine isn’t a place for me to show off some creative talent...it’s simply a book in which I write little stories, memories, and inspirational quotations...with the occasional photo...oh and not all of it is my own writing, some entries are other people’s that I’ve stumbled across online and fallen in love with. ..."

On the contrary, we think it is truly expressive and beautiful.

LEARN MORE

©2009 VH All Rights Reserved

A wider perspective: The Moleskine Panoramic Diary/Planner

Cheerful video to introduce the panoramic diary from Moleskine. 

Turning the planner horizontally you have the whole week on two pages, the Panoramic Diary gives an ideal overview of the week's appointments and your personal "to do" list. A space for contact information and notes together lets you write down information and thoughts, the soft cover makes it a comfortable every day diary.

You can check out the whole range of diaries and planners here.

Gone to the dogs

And I mean that in the most adorable way, as seen at BassetHound Town, home of Chaps and Emma.

Pets are favorite subject of sketchers and writers. This repost is from '06:

I came across this funny post while doing site housekeeping:)

"Moleskine 2005 Planner eaten by my Dog
named Sophie Lee Ramos    

While dog sitting (and house sitting) for my ex-girlfriend her Beagel, Sophie Lee, decided that my brand new 2005 Moleskine daily planner would make a better chew toy than organizer and got to work on bringing forth her artistic vision.  Thanks to her, you now have the rare chance to own this collectible, which for a week, served me well and faithfully kept me on time.  Included are several notes, maps and diagrams from my recent Holiday trip to Boston that at one time lived within the back pocket.  The Moleskine comes complete in a brown paper lunch bag with all original pieces in addition to the above mentioned extra, except for the address book, which has wholely departed this world for the next.      

The legendary notebook, as used by Van Gogh, Matisse, Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin. Incredibly popular, they have a good quality cream pages, and a handy pocket at the back, ideal for keeping loose papers. With a hard black cover, they make an ideal notebook for travelling. What was good enough for these visionaries could not stand up to a nine month old pup."

Rare Moleskine 2005 Planner 
half eaten by dog 
eBay Item # 6941979719

[Thanks Meg!]