Scrawl, scribble, sketch, jot, doodle, muse & write on

"Zac Templeton is a Moleskiner. So is Hillary Thoren. No, they’re not relieving small furry lawn pests of their pelts. Along with other South Sound residents, they’re discovering a quaint and trendy low-tech way of taking notes and recording notions.

Pen and paper.

Imagine that.

Moleskine (pronounced MOLE-uh-SKEEN-uh) notebooks are the anti-PDA, simple and elegant cardboard-bound writing pads steeped in history and tradition. They allow every user his or her own personal font (har har), and they return keeping a journal to the art form it once was.

“I never leave mine at home,” said Templeton, 25, an assistant in the Office of Student Affairs at the University of Washington Tacoma. “It’s better than American Express.”

Templeton estimates he has gone through 15 Moleskine notebooks in recent months. A food and wine columnist for the school newspaper, he jots down story ideas and sketches table- and dinner-plate layouts in his pocket-size Moleskine..."

BILL HUTCHENS; The News Tribune
Tacoma, WA. 11.29.05

Read on.

Image: "Useful Item # 3"
By phototosbyarkady @ Moleskinerie/FLICKR.
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[Thanks to Joy Rothke]

Comments

[Chris Meisenzahl]

Nice Faber-Castell, I have the same one as a mechanical pencil.