Last July, I featured a stack of Michael Beirut’s 80+ notebooks. He’s now filled 90 composition books over his 30-year design career and they are being shown in a new exhibition (along with some of the finished pieces) at the Esther Massry Gallery at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. The exhibition…

Proof that, sometimes, the best tool for the job is a notebook you can buy for less than $5 a piece. Michael Beirut talks about using simple composition notebooks for the last 26 (nope, now its 28) years! 26 Years, 85 Notebooks: Observatory: Design Observer