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Download free: "Windows into Creativity" postcard

Click on the image above to download the pdf file and print your own postcard.

As part of the Moleskine constellation of sites, Moleskinerie is excited to introduce our latest initiative; "Windows into Creativity".

The Windows into Creativity Project
Windows into creativity is a project that celebrates how our notebooks can become a platform for your imagination and creativity. This unique project extends Moleskine’s main brand pillars – identity, imagination, movement, memory and unique experiences to select art supply stores across North America.

Mass Creativity
This extraordinary project, which includes an eye catching window display, is meant to inspire you to continue to create beautiful art. To further encourage the spread this idea of mass creativity, each of the following stores will have a limited amount of customized Moleskines to give away to visitors.

Inside each Moleskine, you will find a special postcard containing a cutout ‘window’. This postcard is our invitation to you to show us the view from your window! Simply hold this postcard up in front of your most creative stories, inspirations and ideas and send them to windows@moleskine.com. These images will be uploaded to this gallery

You can also print our own postcard. Simply download the .pdf file below:

Download WIC_artsupply_Postcard_toprint.pdf

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Visit Windows into Creativity, a project that celebrates how our notebooks can become a platform for your imagination and creativity. This unique project extends Moleskine’s main brand pillars – identity, imagination, movement, memory and unique experiences to select art supply stores across North America. 

 

Moleskine in Kiev? Try Antresol

We've received a few queries from those traveling in Eastern Europe for the nearest Moleskine dealer. The Kyiv Post points us to a coffee shop in Kiev for those who need the notebook in Ukraine.

All literature sold at Antresol is managed by a so-called “librarian,” an assistant sitting at the entrance near the book shelves. He or she will help you to choose something from fiction, science, books for children, and books in foreign languages. There are also some Ukrainian magazines lying in a pile on the cashier’s desk and on the bar, so you can always get updated on the latest events in the capital. ...

Antresol is one of few places in Kyiv, where you can purchase Moleskines. These popular notebooks, usually with a black cover and a rubber string to fasten the pages, have become a real fetish abroad. In Ukraine, they are seldom met and are quickly sold out. When I dropped by at Antresol not long ago, I found only a narrow assortment remaining: small diaries for Hr 88 and large ones for Hr 110-150, and city notebooks for Hr 135. However, the shop assistant assured me that a new Moleskine collection is expected in November.   

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Photo: © 2008 Yaroslav Debelyi

[Thanks Chris!]

View the First Annual Moleskinerie Exhibit.Discover and join our Moleskine communities on LiveJournal, MySpace,  Moleskinerie FLICKR, FACEBOOK and Meal Moles. Finally, join "Open Session", The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion. Have a fun weekend. See you on Monday!

Moleskine in Manila

Philippine photographer Tina Zamora shares her favorite Moleskine moments with daughter Bea and at the most recent WeWillDoodle event in Manila.

"I love using Moleskine notebooks in the goings on of my life..."

Who's the youngest Moleskine user you know?

WebFind: Anna's Japan Blog

Here's a site we found to compliment that trip with your new Tokyo or Kyoto City Notebook. Anna's blog is a travel blog with a focus on culture.

"My site is new but has loads of content about Japan.  I am..working hard on it."

Visit

Your recommendations for similar sites on Japan?

Yet another compendium of Moleskine hacks and mods

Penter Yip of "Familiar Strangers" has put together a list of some amazing modifications made on our favorite black notebook.

"If dogs are human’s best friend, I dare to say Moleskines are artists’ and designers’ best friend. Rumors says Picasso, Matisse, and Hemingway were using their Moleskine to sketch. It was select as the best designer’s sketchbook in LifeHacker. I bet many of you guys are having one in your pocket. Here in this post, TFS will discover how to customize the moleskine to better suit for designers.

Read the full article.

Image: Hydro74

Moleskine Japan

Moleskine City Notebooks in Japan has a beautiful micro site. Its all in Japanese so anybody out there who can tell us more about where those footsteps lead to?

Visit.

"Moleskine indexing hack tool"

Inventoids has a post on a neat way to make those "inverted tabs".

"The side view shows the general effect. These inverted tabs are very easy for your thumb to locate. I’ve used them to split one notebook into 6 separate sections, for separate projects, all along the vertical side. For a more sophisticated setup a mix of tabs on the top, bottom and edge could separate 3 different types of sections, with individual sub sections along the length of the edge..."

Check it out.

[Thanks Barry!]

Share your favorite Moleskine hacks/mods.

Sighting: "Emotional Arithmetic"

 

Moleskinerie friend John Gamber shares a recent notebook sighting with us:

"Emotional Arithmetic focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. Decades after their release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they meet again..."

Wiki

Official Movie Site

This movie is titled "Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning" on DVD. Anyone seen this?

Book Preview: An Illustrated Life

Danny Gregory's new book will be released next month and Elisa Bartels sent us this interesting video link:

"A quick flip through the pages of my new book, An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers..."

Video link

Book link

I see several Moleskine. Do you know any of the featured artists?

WebFind: Addictomatic

There's a new RSS search kid on the block:

"Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It's the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what's up, what's now or what other people are feeding on...."

Check out the results for, what else....Moleskine. Even Moleskinerie!

Open Session : The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion

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

Today it is: "The Scent of Paper"

As we say at Blank Page in Notebookism, keep it nice and keep it relevant. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Image: "Pocket Moleskine Notebook" by softsarah@ FLICKR

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Visit Windows into Creativity, a project that celebrates how our notebooks can become a platform for your imagination and creativity. This unique project extends Moleskine’s main brand pillars – identity, imagination, movement, memory and unique experiences to select art supply stores across North America. 

Patti Smith's Moleskine

Via Notebook Stories, 3x5 notebook tipped us off to this Guardian article:

"Patti Smith, now 61 talks to Amy Raphael about growing up, motherhood and the bereavements that have overshadowed her life.

....Smith’s room is dark. She opens the curtains a little, pulls her boots off and lies on the bed, head propped up on three pillows. Around the room are piles of novels and biographies, Moleskine notebooks in different sizes, her beloved old Polaroid camera..."

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View the First Annual Moleskinerie Exhibit.Discover and join our Moleskine communities on LiveJournal, MySpace,  Moleskinerie FLICKR, FACEBOOK and Meal Moles. Have a fun weekend. See you on Monday!

Keeping a Photographic Journal

Dana Canurschi emailed us from Romania to tell us about a photographic journal project by Jeff at Beyond Megapixels and his theme music:

"I selected some of my shots that I think could be improved in some way. I then shrunk them down in Photoshop so I could cram as many photos as I can in a 4R print. I'd print them out and cut them up, and then stick them on the notebook. (Lisa likes to say I'm scrapbooking, so I hum the theme to The Godfather while doing this to feel more manly.) Beside the images, I write down what could have made the photo better..."

More at Beyond Megapixels

© 2008 Beyond Megapixels All Rights Reserved

Do you use Moleskine in your photography?

Link Love: Koloist

Jeff and Lisa make their own photo albums, still others prefer the "proper" way - a real album. Heather Covault of Kolo wrote to tell us about their new blog called KOLOIST, They even linked M from there!

Thanks and more power! Hugzzz!

Check it out

New Yorker's Toolbox: John Hodgman's Moleskine

The New Yorker interviewed author John Hodgman, with a nice mention about our fave notebook:

"When deadlines loom, however, and long walks and nice showers are no longer an option, I will go directly to the keyboard and force myself to start writing words from scratch. That is very painful. But much less painful than, say, actually working.

This photograph is of the Moleskine I used when writing my most recent comic-book column for the New York Times Book Review, along with my computer, which is a Mac, obviously..."

Read the full post by Thessaly La Force in the New Yorker's Tool Box

Book link

Areas of my Expertise blog

Image and text © 2008 The New Yorker All Rights Reserved

[Thanks to JC in Vienna]