Recycled Ex Libris Journals
Post Moleskin introduced us to the $25 plus bracket for plain notepads, these marvels may be one for the vault. Destructed and meticulously rebuilt by some clever library geeks, here is a journal to satisfy those with a penchant for sumptuous stationary.
The story begins with an ex-library original hardback cover, sporadic pages of the original story, illustrations, stamps and pockets alongside new blank pages on which one may scribble or pen a new tale, sketch or collage general journalings.
Rite in the Rain notebooks
Notebooks used by Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin are gaye with an e. Now everyone has the notebook used by the founder of antweb.org.
“I am an ant collector. I travel the world in search of new species. My motto ‘Map an Ant, Save a Plant’ reflects the importance of including these small insects in conservation planning.
Aesop store turns into bookshop
They say that sometimes, when you're hungry, you're just mistaking dehydration for burger lust and that's why people who don't drink enough are contributing to the obesity epidemic (but not, to their credit, the drought). The point being, sometimes you think you want one thing when you actually want another.
Rebound Books
More interesting to look at than a Moleskine and just as satisfying to hold, Rebound Books inject a lease of new life into dust-covered hardbacks.
Writer’s block could become redundant beneath the cover of a well-worn masterpiece. Each journal takes an old book cover, which is refilled with recycled denim paper and bound to create a blank notebook.
3 Small Journals
It’s functional, it’s Swedish born and it’s not Ikea. kikki.K does office in style, without resorting to the mundane mass of Officeworks.
If, like us, your virtual office rotates between a café, the pub and the studio – you probably (yes like us) have work-related crap sprawled from here to Heathcote.
Point It picture dictionary
We know that it’s rude to point. But when you wind up in a foreign land without the local tongue, pointing might save you from a world of trouble. Case in point, Dieter Graf Verlag’s Point It, a collection of universally recognised images that talk for you.
These pictures say a thousand words that many of us can’t so that next time you want to find the local youth hostel/train station/nudist beach just whip out the passport-sized picture bible from your knapsack, and make like ET (i.
Bookbinders Design
If you're tired of Google grouping your innocent request for "stationery fetish" in with a much more alarming activity, you'll be happy to know there's a new store in Melbourne where you can feed your addiction without blushing. Bookbinders Design is a Swedish retail concept, originating in Stockholm in 1927, tailor-making albums, journals, notebooks, cards & boxes.
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