A subscription is a great gift that will keep on giving like the Colors subscription from Field Notes. If you purchase a subscription now, you’ll receive two sets of the Northerly 3-packs and two kraft-cover 3-packs sent immediately and then quarterly, other limited edition sets will be delivered. Each quarterly set will include two 3-packs…

I have a secret obsession — the Midori Traveler’s Notebook. It is a beautiful build-it-yourself notebook with a leather cover from Japan. Using a series of rubber bands, you can “bind” in an assortment of smaller notebooks for drawing, writing, and calendar along with pockets and zipper pouches to contain smaller loose items. The attention…

Composition books are usually considered the poor, student notebook used by middle schoolers and academics but the Marya composition books aspire to greater heights. Filled with quality paper, ornamental stitching and foil stamping, the Marya Composition books are definitely a different paper beast, more peacock than pack mule. $11.95 (via Girl Of All Work)

With all the hullaballoo in the past couple weeks, I completely forgot to post photos of the goodies I received from Lost Crates. This is my third “crate”. The first crate was so spot-on in regards to my personal tastes that I wasn’t surprised or delighted but I was completely satisfied. In an effort to…

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…