4 Years / 15 Notebooks
February 4, 2009
If you are the one that reads my blog regularly, you know about my obsession and dilemma around the simple A5 black sketchbook: Here, here and here.
I have been using them obsessively for a couple of years now and I was very pleased to find out that I share this obsession with no other than Michael Bierut. Like him, I am also incredibly fussy about those notebooks. I don’t like Moleskin (they are for people who think they are creative). I also cannot stand lined or gridded paper. Blank the pages need to be.
As I previously blogged it is incredibly difficult to find notebooks that adhere to these four simple rules:
1. Black
2. Softback
3. Blank pages
4. A5
I have some way to go though to get to Michael’s amount of books. Very impressive.
My pile is about four years. I have opened some of them at random:
February 5, 2009 at 2:17 pm
This is damn inspiring.
Do you put most of your thoughts in these?
February 5, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Yeah everything and anything goes in there. The drawing on the left page on the last image is generated by holding a pen whilst in a car from London to Cambridge.
February 9, 2009 at 10:08 pm
If you are not absolutely married to the concept of softbound sketchbook, these are great. Well made, durable, excellent smooth paper, great with ink/fountain pen and my personal choice in a variety of sizes:
http://www.utrechtart.com/dsp_view_product.cfm?item=48823
April 9, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Since I need to have my “notebook” with me at all times I had to create my own that travels easily with me.
So I created a one page planner–my Paper Assistant–that I carry in my back pocket.
It’s there with me when I need to sketch something, write down a number, or capture an idea.
Check it out here.