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Launch of Glass House Moleskine® Sketchbook

Saturday’s event at the Four Seasons was a huge success!

Saturday’s event at the Four Seasons celebrated the launch of the Glass House Moleskine® Sketchbook which was inspired by the Glass House site’s unique power of place, its role as a source of inspiration and the desire for visitors to pause, look closely and document their observations as part of their site experience.

Held in the beautiful Grill Room at the Four Seasons, the event attracted almost 150 individuals from the arts, architecture and design community. Attendees included individuals from the Museum of Modern Art, Parson’s School of Design, the Art Directors Club, the Frick Collection, Time Magazine, PEI Architects, IFC, the Emmy’s and the Donald Judd Foundation.

The event’s centerpiece exhibited a sculpture of a tiny replica of the Glass House, made out of a Moleskine notebook and fashioned by Steven Doyle. This piece, along with copies of the sketchbook, kept the entire night buzzing with intellectually stimulating conversation from beginning to end.

The sketchbook features 29 sketches by architects, designers, and artists inspired by the site, quotes by Philip Johnson, and blank pages for notes or sketching. The sketchbook will be a featured product of the 2008 Glass House Shop and all proceeds from this sketchbook will support Glass House initiatives.

Please visit www.moleskine.com/glasshouse to see the beautiful slideshow of the sketchbook’s images. We will soon provide a section that will invite students and the public to share their own sketches on the site.

The Glass House Moleskine® Sketchbook

The mission of the Philip Johnson Glass House is to focus on being a center point for modern preservation and also to inspire new ideas and talent in architecture, design, and art.  In this spirit, the Glass House has launched a partnership with Moleskine(R), the signature tool for creative minds, to produce a custom sketchbook for the Glass House

This Glass House Moleskine sketchbook is inspired by the site's unique power of place, its role as a source of inspiration, and the desire for visitors to pause, look closely, and document their observations as part of their site experience. The sketchbook features 29 sketches by architects, designers, and artists inspired by the site, quotes by Philip Johnson, and blank pages for notes or sketching. The sketchbook will be a featured product of the 2008 Glass House Shop as well as launch an online interactive component, inviting students and the public to share their own sketches.  All proceeds from this sketchbook will support Glass House initiatives.

Sketchbook Participants include:

Yves Béhar, Michael Bell, Deborah Berke, James Biber, Mattia Bonetti, Constantin  Boym, Seymour Chwast, Stephen Doyle, Steven Ehrlich, Rafael Esquer, Alexander Gorlin, Stephen Holl, Christopher Huan, Rainer Judd, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, LOT-EK | Giuseppe Lignano and Ada Tolla, Mark McInturff, Richard Meier, Toshiko Mori, Michael Morris, Fred Noyes, Gaetano Pesce, Ron Radziner, Jens Risom, Yoshiko Sato, Denyse Schmidt, Alison Spear, Joseph Tanney

The Modofly Artists Collaborative

From our friend Ana Maria Seaton:   

I am working with a fabulous company called Modofly [ http://www.modofly.net ] who has gathered a collaborative collective of over 25 artists, myself included, to produce a new line of uniquely artful Moleskines. Their new site JUST went live with the new collection and I'm dancing all over the house. LOL There are some incredible artists and I hope that you will take a moment to wander through it and show it your support!
    
    You can find my journals via the links below but make sure you click on the "Journals & Sketchbooks" link at the top to check out the rest of the journals now available! There some really incredible artists and I am proud to be listed among them.
    
    http://www.modofly.net/products/panel-lily
    http://www.modofly.net/products/aqualilium
    
    Anytime you go to www.modofly.net just type in the name "Ana Maria Seaton" or simply "Ria" and all of the journals that carry my art will come up. This is the first of many submissions and there are already more in the works!

The 2008 Chicago Pen Show

Photos from the Chicago Pen Show held at the Westin O'Hare on Sunday, May 4.

View the FLICKR photo set.

Update: The Undiscovered Letter

On April 3, 2008, the Art Directors Club hosted a diverse crowd of 400 at the ADC Gallery for its Disclosure event. A launch party for ADC Young Guns 6 as well as an exhibition of finalist work for The Undiscovered Letter, the event featured twenty-seven interpretations of the 27th letter of the alphabet created by former winners of ADC Young Guns.

Among the twenty-seven finalists whose entries and Moleskine® sketchbooks were shown, three were named Judges’ Favorites—Ivan Pols (member of the ADC Young Guns 5 class), Rei Inamoto (YG4), and Robin Bilardello (YG5)—and one was named the winner: Tiziana Haug (YG5). Haug’s 27th letter presented itself as “everything that the 26 letters fail to communicate” and took shape as a tangram-like construction made of the counterforms of each letter in the Latin alphabet. These counterforms, essentially cutouts of the negative space found in each letter (e.g., the triangle in “A”), comprised the building blocks of a new unit of communication. “If the 27th letter can be discovered, it has to be hiding somewhere,” according to Haug, and she explored both the idea of discovery and the meaning of communication with her emphasis that the 27th letter, though the result of random combinations, is personal at its core.

Design Taxi

Related links:
The Undiscovered Letter
ADC

[Thanks Chris!]

DETOUR Paris : Submit your notebook!

This itinerant group exhibition displays the Moleskine notebooks designed by over 30 artists, writers, designers and illustrators of international acclaim.

After the successful experiences in London and New York, the exhibition will land at the Printemps Design boutique in the Pompidou Centre, before taking to the road again, first for Berlin, then Venice, Istanbul, etc. At every leg of the journey, it magnetizes new artists having special connections with the city in which the exhibition is taking place.

Visitors may leaf through the personal Moleskine notebooks of artists, designers, architects, illustrators and writers. Some notebooks contain detailed stories, expressing a study of contemporary design. Others are more improvised. Others are radically personal.
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From 24 April to 17 May 2008, at one of the following stores in Paris:

- Librairie Flammarion in the Centre Pompidou

- Librairie la Hune, 170, Boulevard Saint-Germain

- Printemps Haussmann, 64, Boulevard Haussmann

you will find a special MyDetour collecting box, identified within the store by the "Moleskine" and "MyDetour" trade marks. Your personalized Notebook, which must have your first name and last name written in it, should be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the completed Consent Form (release of intellectual property rights, and consent to the processing of your personal data), which the Notebook's author must have signed (not a photocopy).

The Consent Form must be inserted in the expandable pocket of your Notebook, and the section "Biographical note on the Author" may be completed also.

The envelope containing the Notebook and the signed Consent Form must then be deposited in one of the collecting boxes.
Out of all the Notebooks deposited in the collecting boxes during the period 24 April to 17 May, the Jury will select ten on the basis of their aesthetic and artistic merit. These ten Notebooks will be put on public display at the next MyDetour event in Berlin.

Furthermore the Jury will choose an overall winner among the ten selected Notebooks, and Moleskine will invite its author to Berlin to attend the inauguration of the Detour exhibition there.

LINK

Download Detour_myDetour_Paris.pdf

The Undiscovered Letter

Disclosure will feature an exhibit of this elusive, not-yet letter as it has been conceived by the 27 finalists, from initial notebook sketches and scribbles to completed designs. An international panel of judges will further select personal favorites from among these finalists, but only one entry will be named “The 27th Letter.” Expectations are high, as the competition was open exclusively to ADC Young Guns alumn – under-30 professionals in various creative disciplines who have been selected biennially for their exceptional talent.

The contest, designed by the ADC in partnership with Moleskine to raise awareness about lettera27, presented an unusual puzzle in its intentionally broad scope. In a tribute to literacy advocates and their search for unique and unconventional solutions, ADC Young Guns were encouraged to do away with boundaries and tackle the challenge of The Undiscovered Letter in any manner they wished to choose – through any subject, form, skill, and/or medium. Their challenge has been to push the meaning of communication forward and to set the missing 27th letter outside the box that holds the familiar twenty-six.

More at the Art Directors Club

[via Digital Arts]

Thanks Chris!

Call for Artists

From the "Unicorn" Moleskine people:

Hey there artists! We had an amazing round last month with our super cool laser etched moleskines. Now its your turn! We are going to be doing a second and third generation of books in the coming months and we want YOU to work with us! All artists will get paid royalties per book, will have no licensing or limitations on how they use their illustrations, and will get blurbs about their work and site with the product, and on our blog (coming in a week or so). If this sounds interesting to you and you would like to learn more, please visit our site www.modofly.net and shoot us an email. We will send you a pdf outlining what we are doing. We already have about ten awesome artists that will be working with us, but we want to see your stuff!.

Malaysia: New Moleskine Display at CZipLee

Alvin Chen of CZipLee in Malaysia wrote to  tell us about their new dedicated in-store Moleskine display.

Check it out and drool!

New York celebrates Moleskine

A gallery of photos from the Detour/MoleskineCity Exhibit in New York

View the photos at La Republica.

[Grazie Silvia!]

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