Congratulations to the Author-a-Month winner for May – Cali Rezo!

http://bit.ly/calirezo

We want our feature of Cali to include fan questions, what would you like to ask our new winner?

Post your questions in the comments section below and we will include a few.

There are many choices when selecting tools or methods for enhancing productivity but is a journal one of your tools?

According to a new article featured on Forbes.com, you might want to consider keeping a journal for a number of reasons:

http://onforb.es/JatmCE

Have you used a journal in these ways? What results did you see?

We would like to bring back a feature on this blog showing a snapshot or a brief feature of our readers.

If you would like to be featured on this blog please send us an e-mail at moleskinerie@moleskine.com .

We know we have amazing readers and we want to share with the community the interesting ways you are all using notebooks.

Please write us if interested and tell us a bit about yourself, include some images of your work if possible.

Let us know things such as which style of notebooks you enjoy to use, how you use them, places you take them etc.

We can’t promise to feature everyone but we will start to feature as many fans as we can in the upcoming months and beyond.

Our newest video presents the latest additions to our Writing Collection.

Do you prefer the click or the cap?

Clicks pens and pencils

Is a picture really worth a thousand words?

We wanted to share with you an interesting article on doodling. More companies are using doodling to express complex ideas and get everyone on the same page.

Have you tried visual note taking in the work place or do you ever create doodles in your personal time? What benefits does it bring to you?

(Click the image to read the article)

The latest Author-a-Month is now revealed, Nerderella is the winner! To learn more about the person behind the work, we reached out to her:

Could you please tell us something about yourself?

My name is Yasmin and I work under the name Nerderella, I live in the Netherlands in a house with a garden, my boyfriend and all our toys and gadgets. I’m an illustrator / concept artists by day and a crafster by night. I read a lot of comics, play way too many video games and love cooking and taking pictures.

What inspires you the most during your creation process?

A lot actually; friends, family, conversations I overhear, comics, games even weird stuff I find in second hand stores. I went to Pictoplasma recently and that really inspired me too.

And of course some of my favorite artists: Dave Cooper, Junko Mizuno, Mark Ryden, Jhonen Vasquez, Junji Ito and Robin Keijzer. And for some reaon, reeealy bad movies, I love their corniness. (I advise the Room and Troll 2!).

Which are your sketching tools?

My sketching tool of choice is a Pentel 0.7mm refillable pencil. when I don’t need any sketching done I use Pentel sign pens and fine liners or my recent favourite; the Pentel colour brush. It might not give the perfect even lines I usually use but I really like how it makes my drawings look. It makes them more alive.

Thank you for sharing with us Nerderella!

As we have done with all past winners a custom sleeve and bookmark of the winning artist’s work have been created.

You can find the sleeve or bookmark by logging into myMoleskine and going to our MSK section. Once you are there simply select the workshops section.

Enjoy: http://bit.ly/9v48lIt