Our last artist to profile from our recent Moleskine Portraits event is Emilie Baltz.

Emilie presented the very popular “Faces” project which you can see the results from in our Facebook album here: http://on.fb.me/portraits_faces

Emilie Baltz – Making Food, Pictures, and Things
- Who are you and what do you do?
I am Emilie Baltz. I make things that make people smile. I use a variety of media, mediums and industries as outputs for my work. My interest lies in human expression and consumption. I am obsessed with Junk Food and believe that the relationship between ideals and reality creates a tension that moves culture forward.

- Are Moleskine notebooks a part of your life and creative process? If so, how do you fit them in?
Moleskine notebooks are part of my everyday, every-moment life. I am a furious note-taker/list-maker and ridiculous scribbler.  My Moleskine is half organizational-tool and half dream-making machine.

- You are presenting a project at Moleskine Portraits in NYC on January 30th…what is it about?
I am secretly referring to my project as “Put Your Face In It”, a photo booth experience in which patrons can place their face directly into an extra-large Moleskine notebook. Visitors are invited to draw their own “hair” on the surrounding paper, or choose from a series of illustrated images created by New York City-based illustrator Cully Long.

- If you collaborated with someone on your project, how did your collaboration work?
Cully Long is a NYC-based artist who has a series of Subway Sketches I love. Our collaboration stemmed from a conversation about navigating through the city, the people you encounter and the ability to capture their expressions. My photographic work often revolves around human expressions, and Cully’s work equally focuses on this thematic. We thought that fusing our two mediums in such a way, literally creating a “frame” for expressions, both drawn and photographed, was a natural (and engaging) way to create a unique series of portraits that spoke of the diversity of New York City.

- What inspires you?
I am inspired by truth, laughter and people who allow themselves to fall in love.

- Do you prefer plain, ruled, or squared paper?
Plain, please.

www.emiliebaltz.com

The previous featured Artists:
Phillip Stearns
Brian Quinn
Amanda Stern and Nathan Sensel
Daniel Perlin and Dana Karwas

Moleskine Portraits
Monday, January 30th 2012
Exit Art, New York, NY
#MoleskinePortraits

Moleskine Portraits explores the many ways to capture a portrait using Moleskine objects. Text-portraits, sound-portraits, taste-portraits, photo-portraits, and more.

The previous featured Artists:
Phillip Stearns
Brian Quinn
Amanda Stern and Nathan Sensel

Daniel Perlin and Dana Karwas – Art, Tech and Sound

-  Who are you and what do you do?
We are are media designers who work across disciplines, creating spaces, objects and experiences. We collaborate regularly, including designing WHAT IS MISSING? with Maya Lin Studios for the Beijing Center for the Arts. We have created spatial and media design for clients such as Esquire, Knoll, Showtime, Acconci Studios, Rem Koolhaas/Sanford Kwinter, and the Whitney Biennial of Art. We both have graduated from and have taught at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Curently, they maintain Perlin Studios and Wika Studio, focus on the convergence of media and interactivity in everyday life.

-   Are Moleskine notebooks a part of your life and creative process? If so, how do you fit them in?
Daniel - Absolutely! Ideas show up and strike at any moment. I have relied on squared pocket notebooks for years, mostly when I am on the road or in meetings.

Dana - Totally. We use a notebooks to get our ideas down fast and sketch.

-  You are presenting a project at Moleskine Portraits in NYC on January 30th…what is it about?
Daniel - We talked about ways of shaping everyday experiences of motion into play. In this case, we a transformed two Moleskine bags into musical instruments

Dana - We were thinking about how the traveller is a kind of performer, and how we could make that performance musical and expressive,  and offer the chance for collaborative or solo performance.

-  If you collaborated with someone on your project, how did your collaboration work?
Daniel -  It worked rather well, we hope (Laughs). The collaborative process is critical to us, as we both thrive and push our ideas best as a team.

Dana - We both share some duties, especially the design of the experience, though I handled more programming this time, and Daniel was composing the sound a bit more. We tried to make something that we would both enjoy playing.

-  What inspires you?
Daniel - Um, Everything…Particularly listening.

Dana - The people and ideas that are around me.

- Do you prefer plain, ruled, or squared paper?
Daniel - Depends on what we’re making, but I am more of a squared type…

Dana - Plain for me, to sketch ideas.

http://danielperlin.net
http://www.wikastudio.com

Moleskine Portraits
Monday, January 30th 2012
Exit Art
New York, NY
#MoleskinePortraits

On the evening of Monday, January 30th in New York City, Moleskine is hosting a special event – Moleskine Portraits, an evening of interactive portraits-making.

Moleskine Portraits explores the many ways to capture a portrait using Moleskine objects. Text-portraits, sound-portraits, taste-portraits, photo-portraits, and more. Over the next few weeks, we will feature artists and designer who are contributing work to this one-night only experience.

View the featured Artist and designer who are contributing work to this one-night only experience.
The previous featured Artists:
Phillip Stearns
Brian Quinn

Amanda Stern – Author and Host of Happy Ending
Nathan Sensel – Artist and Arts-educator

Who are you and what do you do?
AS - I am Amanda Stern. Some close friends call me, “Frankie,” others just point and say, “You.” I’m a novelist and the founder of The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, a show I produce and host at Joe’s Pub in NYC. My first novel is called “The Long Haul,” and was published by Soft Skull Press. I’ve written 11 books for kids and young adults (published by Penguin and Hyperion, respectively) and published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a bunch of places including The Believer, The New York Times, Post Road, Five Chapters and Spinning Jenny.  I am hoping to finish my next novel before I qualify for AARP.

NS - My name is Nate and I’m an artist and educator. I dig art museums and am constantly trying to find new ways to get people involved in talking about and making art. I’ve been leading drop-in drawing workshops at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday nights called “New Ways of Seeing ” — they have a crazy awesome collection there. At the Whitney Museum this month, I’m teaching kids to cast small skulls out of sugar. I work with teenagers to write about art through an organization called High 5 Tickets to the Arts and I’m at MoMA almost everyday talking with people about portraits, abstractions, revolutions  and curry.

- Are Moleskine notebooks a part of your life and creative process? If so, how do you fit them in?
AS - Hell, yes. Short of eating off them, I use Moleskine for nearly everything. I have a thin one devoted to scenes and ideas for my second novel. I have another that’s just TO DO lists. I have one for my calendar and another for story ideas. I have light brown ones, black ones, red ones, uppers, downers – oh sorry, wrong list – I also have a Moleskine laptop case because I have Moleskine Hoarding Disorder.

NS - I love the smooth, heavy-weight paper in the classic hard-bound notebooks. I host figure drawing sessions at my studio in Brooklyn once a month and have a stack of these notebooks filled with drawings.

- You are presenting a project at Moleskine Portraits in NYC on January 30th…what is it about?
AS - Nate Sensel and I have put together an interactive portrait workshop that works for a handful of people and a mass of people.  It has to do with one’s then and one’s now, and identifying the patterns that make us ourselves. We’re incorporating word stamps, writing and sketching.

NS - It’s really about YOU. Our project will get participants making portraits of themselves through time with words.  Who were you in the past? Who are you now? And what moments were turning points in your life?

- If you collaborated with someone on your project, how did your collaboration work?
AS - Perfectly, thank you. Nate Sensel and I work really well together. It could be in part because we work in different, yet complementarymediums, but also because he’s very down to earth and not bossy, unlike his collaborative partner.

NS - I’m rather lucky to work with Amanda — she is smart, funny and only a little bit bossy.

- What inspires you?     
AS - New ideas, collaborations, making something from nothing, being shown new ways of seeing, great conversation, a long walk alone, a few songs, eavesdropping and people watching.

NS - Other people inspire me. The natural world has it’s place, but I need to hear what people are thinking. I feel most inspired when I think someone has been completely open and honest in their work.

- Do you prefer plain, ruled, or squared paper?
AS - Ruled. Always and only. If that makes me a Rulist, so be it.

NS - Plain. No fuss.

www.amandastern.com
www.nathansensel.com

Moleskine Portraits, Monday, January 30th 2012, 6-9pm, Exit Art, New York
Free with RSVP: http://bit.ly/rL4OZK
#MoleskinePortraits

Here is the amazing work of Luc on 24 hours of Le Mans. Passionate of the car race, Luc took all the information on the Internet and gave his personal interpretation by sketching and painting the most important moments of the race.
He published all of his beautiful work on his blog here: http://bit.ly/zWZmxk

On the evening of Monday, January 30th in New York City, Moleskine is hosting a special event – Moleskine Portraits, an evening of interactive portraits-making.
Moleskine Portraits, Monday, January 30th 2012, 6-9pm, Exit Art, New York
Free with RSVP: http://bit.ly/rL4OZK
#MoleskinePortraits

View the featured Artist and designer who are contributing work to this one-night only experience:
The previous featured Artists:
Phillip Stearns
Brian Quinn
Amanda Stern and Nathan Sensel

Brian Quinn – Food and Wine Impresario
- Who are you and what do you do?
I’m an event producer in New York City, basically as a result of many years of producing concerts around the world in the music industry (jazz), and then also starting a wine-based supperclub in 2009 (The Noble Rot) that gained wider recognition and opened a world of food and wine experiences for me. Today, I curate imaginative events for brands and organizations, teach classes on cocktail-making and wine-blending, and am starting to write for several publications, all in the interest of expanding the knowledge of others and myself in the process.

- Are Moleskine notebooks a part of your life and creative process? If so, how do you fit them in?
I use Moleskines as a catch-all for ideas, planning, and goals. Their size makes it easy to take them to meetings or keep handy as I am traveling. During my days in the music industry, I would take my notebook to concerts to discretely take notes during an client’s performance, so we could discuss ideas afterwards for improvement. However, now with creative events being my focus, my notebooks end up absorbing a myriad of random ideas and things I need to research, let alone holding business cards and other useful, random papers.

- You are presenting a project at Moleskine Portraits in NYC on January 30th…what is it about?
I am curating a wine-sensory table for this event, providing guests the chance to create a map of their palate, so to speak. My project is helping to solve the simple problem that many face when choosing wine: how to establish a personal palate identity and establish a means for documenting one’s tastes, making the prospect of choosing a wine a much more manageable and enjoyable experience. This event will hopefully shed a deeper light on that path for the guest as we taste wine with them and analyze their impressions, establishing cues for future remembrance and noting personal preferences. It’s not hard to drink wine, but few really take the time to really think about what they are drinking. I hope to enrich that experience with this project.

- What inspires you?
The science and psychology behind our decisions and what drives us. Whether it be music, food, wine, or any other genre, I love to find the motivating factors that push each discipline forward and how those facets can then be translated on a broader scale, so that others may be inspired by identifying something in that subject that they also see in themselves.

-  Do you prefer plain, ruled, or squared paper?
Plain. I tend to write over the lines, so it’s best to just leave them out … even if I’m the only one that can decipher my writings.

www.brianquinn.co

On the evening of Monday, January 30th in New York City, Moleskine is hosting a special event – Moleskine Portraits, an evening of interactive portraits-making.

Moleskine Portraits explores the many ways to capture a portrait using Moleskine objects. Text-portraits, sound-portraits, taste-portraits, photo-portraits, and more. Over the next few weeks, we will feature artists and designer who are contributing work to this one-night only experience.

The previous featured Artists:
Phillip Stearns
Brian Quinn
Amanda Stern and Nathan Sensel

Phillip Stearns – Art, Tech and Sound
- Who are you and what do you do?
My name Phillip Stearns and I’m an artist, technician, and educator.  My art making practice involves electronic technologies and tends to be multi-disciplinary.  I make sound art, interactive light and sound installations, digital prints, textiles, music, and more.  You can find my newest project, Year of the Glitch, on Tumblr.  During the day I work as a technician for Voltaic Systems, a company that designs solar chargers and solar bags.  I also do audio and video tech work for the Candian Broadcasting Corporation here and there as well as help other artists out on their projects. Most recently, I worked on Josh Hadar‘s  solar tree, fitting it with the solar panels and lights.  If you’re interested in learning more about practical electronics, check out 3rd Ward’s class listing , where I work as an educator.

- Are Moleskine notebooks a part of your life and creative process? If so, how do you fit them in?
I have several notebooks that I use on a regular basis.  I use a hardcover squared Moleskine notebook for taking down technical data when doing field research for Voltaic Systems.

- You are presenting a project at Moleskine Portraits in NYC on January 30th…what is it about?
I’m developing a sound piece made from sounds produced by a Moleskine messenger bag and a few other Moleskine accessories: pens, pencils, reading light, etc.

- What inspires you?
The thought of doing something new (for me anyways), special, or thought provoking.  In my work, I derive a lot of inspiration from technology and the natural environment, two forces that see to be at a point of conflict in today’s society.  There are a lot of brilliant minds out there working in science, art, and philosophy—experiencing what they have to say or share is incredibly inspiring.

- Do you prefer plain, ruled, or squared paper?
Taken out of context this could make it sound like I’m a really dull guy, but I go back and forth between plain and squared.
www.phillipstearns.com

Moleskine Portraits
Monday, January 30th 2012
6-9pm

Exit Art
475 10th Ave (@ 36th st)
New York, NY 10011

Located one block east from Javits Center.
Train: A, C, E @ Penn Station
Free with RSVP: http://bit.ly/rL4OZK

#MoleskinePortraits

New free downloadable templates to be filled with your resolutions are now available in three different layouts. Choose your favorite and share with us!

Is there something you want to change in your life?
Something you want to do and never had the time to accomplish?

This is the right moment to take notes of these wishful thoughts.
Fill in the 2012 new resolutions template with your resolutions, cut it and place it into your Moleskine notebook, and remember to share them with us:

On Twitter by sending us a tweet using this hashtag: #moleskine2012
On our Facebook Page
On Flickr tagging your photos with moleskine2012
By commenting here on Moleskinerie

Choose your favourite here: bit.ly/g4LvUy

Choose your favorite and share with us!

Choose your favorite and share with us!

The places we visit, the things we carry, the marks we make, the pictures we share, the ideas we capture, the tastes we savor, the gifts we choose…we make portraits with each choice and each choice makes up an ever-changing portrait of who we are.

View the featured Artist and designer who are contributing work to this one-night only experience.
The previous featured Artists:
Brian Quinn
Phillip Stearns
Amanda Stern and Nathan Sensel

Join Moleskine for an evening of interactive portrait-making.
January 30th, 6-9pm, Exit Art, New York.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/rL4OZK
#MoleskinePortraits

Women Create Life merges contemporary art and design to increase awareness and generate resources to improve the health of women and children worldwide. It’s the artistic and social project of the World Health Organization (WHO) whose aim is to render the public more sensitive to the maternal and newborn health.

Moleskine collaborates with a special edition notebook which embraces the spirit of Women Create Life, including a booklet with stories and portraits of women painted by artist Elisabetta Farina.

Every time you purchase a Women Create Life product, a percentage of the sale will be donated to the Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations and included in the annual contribution of Italy to the World Health Organization, for women’s and children’s health. For more information, click here.

To purchase the Women Create Life notebook, click here

The very first time we talked about bookmarks has been during the launch of the Cover Art Collection.

Today we are proud to show you a new version of the Moleskine bookmark, that will be complementary to the previous one.

This new paper toy that you can download for free has been designed by Giulio Iacchetti, the same designer of the Moleskine New Collections.

Print, cut and build it and do not forget to share with us!