Notepad brand preference?
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- detritus
Hey, bright young things -
Do you have a particular style, type or shape of note/drawing book? If so, what is it?
I'm trying to see if there are any standards amongst creative types. Moleskin and Rhodia books are quite popular - but how so? Are there other options from companies I'm not aware of? And which shapes?
I'm not really interested in responses from people, like me, who tend to just get whatever takes their fancy at the time, or just scrawl on random scraps of paper - I'm after responses from the obsessive acolyte geeks! :)
Thanks,
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- Fizik0
here: Moleskine, Dot Grid Book - 5 minute fight. Go.
- ninjasavant0
- I LIKEsublocked
- i've had one of these going for yearsarthur
- +1oblib
- I've filled up 2 in teh past year.ninjasavant
- +1megE
- armsbottomer0
napkins, paper towels, receipts.... all taped inside of a Moleskin
- mg330
I love this question. Though Moleskin is making them now too, I have a ton of slim notebooks I got in Tokyo at Muji a few years ago:
They're not very thick; very minimal. I just love them. I buy notebooks all the time; I think subconsciously that I'm just going to start filling them writing writing, lyrics, or sketches. I'm really envious of people with the ability to fill notebooks with cook sketches. I just don't have the knack for it.
- Aye, I've bought a heckload of these over the years too! Thanks for the feedback.detritus
- mg330
Another notebook I like but have never purchased are the Dot-Grid Books.
- mg330
Weird... it would not let me post the word "B/e/h/a/n/c/e." What's up with that?
- raf0
– MUJI passport-size plain yellow – €1.50 I think;
– MUJI what mg33 said, only smaller – €1.50 I think as well;
– MUJI spiral dot grid with a pocket (lost that one on holidays in Italy, had a bunch of QBN stickers in that pocket) – something like €7, a moleskinesque extortion.
- d_rek0
I generally go for the cheapest thing I can find - with one stipulation, the paper has to be able to at least hold graphite without smearing too much. Otherwise I find the cheaper they are the more weird my sketches become, as i'm not worried about 'ruining' a nice piece of white paper. Brand is not an issue - I find that if i have a strathmore i'm more hesitant to use it than my el cheapo black chip/craft board cover notebook that I bought at half the price.
Funny how psychology works like that.
And for you eco-freaks:
We have a coil binder where I work with a healthy stock of coils. So what i've been doing is recycling the best of our used laser print stock-not the best paper for sketching, does not hold graphite particularly well and smudges like crazy-coil binding it myself. Again, maybe not the best paper but for free you really can't beat it.
- Complexfruit0
Moleskine sketchbooks for me. I also use to do larger sized sketchbooks but found the size of the moleskines to be less intimidating. I always felt like I had to fill the larger notebooks/sketchbooks with "stuff".
- Thats what i feel like with a back wall full of canvases. :Dneferiu
- Peter0
I'm digging my "Traveler's note" by Midori Japan.
http://www.midori-japan.co.jp/tr…http://img216.imageshack.us/i/tr…
It's a somewhat modular binder (actually, it's just a piece of folded leather with some holes) in that you add paper, pockets, ribbons, etc...
http://www.midori-japan.co.jp/tr…Pic of a plastic sleeve:
http://img268.imageshack.us/i/tr…
The thing is made in Thailand,
helping the less fortunate there with employment and job.
Not that it was that that persuaded me, a somewhat heartless bastard, to get it. But the paper is made in Japan. Calender types, sqaured, plain, etc...
Here's a sketch of the qbn gentlemens on plain paper:http://img30.imageshack.us/i/trv…
And the backside for no particular reason: