{"id":39,"date":"2004-03-23T01:53:32","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-05-17T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T10:58:08","slug":"moleskine-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Moleskine notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have preferred notebooks with squared paper, ever since I first encountered Clairefontaine notebooks in Brussels in 1990. I found that the paper was good for using a fountain pen and the squares made sketching designs easier. On my return to Australia, however, I found that I could no longer buy these handy notebooks – in fact it seemed an almost impossible quest to locate a pocket-sized notebook with squared paper! Rare visits in intervening years to London and Paris renewed my supply of these notebooks, but they were soon to run out.<\/p>\n

Enter the Moleskine!<\/a> After stumbling into a specialist paper store in Canberra I found the perfect notebook – it even had a handy elastic to keep it closed, and a stitched-in bookmark. Above all, it had squared paper \ud83d\ude42 It has become my favourite hard-copy medium. It fits in a shirt pocket, takes fountain pen ink well (being left-handed, I find a fountain pen glides over the page, rather than digging in as ballpoints tend to) and has a sufficiently sturdy cover to allow writing while standing, and it opens flat – unlike most bound notebooks.<\/p>\n

I carry my trusty moleskine now wherever I go to jot down ideas, thoughts, sketch designs to remind me of interesting ways of constructing things (like joints on a bench) or ideas on using mouldings for bookcases (see below). For me, it is the perfect format! – even though the small format notebook is not cheap at around AUS$25.00 each – they are well made and last for ages as the paper is really fine – so you get more pages for less bulk.<\/p>\n

It seems that others are equally taken with these notebooks – such as the delightful Moleskinerie<\/a> – a blog devoted to tales of this notebook \ud83d\ude42 It is great to see good design recognised!<\/p>\n

\"Moleskine<\/p>\n

Here is an entry from before the Great Fire of Canberra in which I began designing the built-in book cases for what was to become our new home.<\/p>\n

Cheers
\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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