While visiting Daly’s Pen Shop in Milwaukee, I picked up a Letts of London Noteletts notebook. The Noteletts line is available three sizes, ruled or blank and in four different cover colors. I got the “L6″, the medium size, which is 116mm x 172mm (approx. 4.5″x 6.75”) and features lined paper. The cover of…
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Review: Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks
After trying out the Stillman & Birn sampler packet, I went ahead and got two sketchbooks. A 5.5×8.5″ Epsilon series hard cover and an 8.5×11″ Alpha series hard cover. I always think of the 8.5×11″ black hard cover as the quintessential artist’s sketchbook. This was the first sketchbook I ever got when I started art…
Review: Leuchtturm 1917 Neon Green Notebook
Do I love lime green? You know I do. (See the matching nail polish for proof.) Do I like Leuchtturm1917 notebooks? Yup. Do I really like when the two things come together with all the genius of peanut butter and chocolate? Of course!! Okay, on to the real review… The Leuchtturm1917 notebook line was recently…
How many notebooks is too many?
I was pulling everything out of my bag this morning to get situated at work. One, two, three… four… five! I found five notebooks in my bag and realized that maybe I had too many notebooks going at one time. Then I started thinking about it and my Zenok leather Field Notes cover actually hides…
Pages from Paul Klee’s Sketchbook
I find these pages from Paul Klee’s notebooks, circa 1922, to be positively mind blowing. Color formulas, beautiful penmanship and somehow beautiful and artistic at the same time. Paul Klee, Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre, 1922. Bauhaus Weimar. (via The Near-Sighted Monkey)
Review: Rhodia Ice Notepad
I finally got a chance to see what all the hullabaloo surrounding the new Rhodia Ice pads is all about. In honor of its 80th anniversary, Rhodia has released a white covered version of its classic notepads. I got the No. 16 (6 x 8.25″) which is a good desktop sized, comparable to an A5…
Upcoming: Blackwing Slate Notebook
It’s a week chock full of new notebooks. The new Blackwing Slate is an updated version of the Blackwing Luxury notebook. This time the notebook is hardcover but uses the same polymer leather-like material. The branding is center at the bottom of the back cover and not central across the cover. The size looks like…