Responses to M.bian Moleskine Case

Sep 14, 2007 at 1:15 AM
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Wow, the response is great, thanks you all Moleskine fans for the support of the idea. Here's some more pictures taken in 2005 to quench your thirst.

Limited Edition Moleskine in M.bian

The limited edition Moleskine was bought from Japan a few years ago, you can never find them anymore. This just shows how black is not just black. With help of patterns, black is beautiful.

Moleskine Reporter in M.bian

Yup, Reporters can be used like this, just like a Rhodia pad in a notepad cover. Although I don't like the Reporter format and prefer to use traditional pocket Moleskine horizontally, I found this horizontal pocket can be a double feature: a pocket by itself or a holder for Reporter.

Moleskine Reporter in M.bian

Anyway, I am doing all these just for the fun of it and the love of Moleskine. Most of all, make something useful for myself. Your responses are tremendous, thanks again! My full time job takes most of my energy but I'm glad you all like it so much. Still a larger MOQ is required to get the price down to a level I myself will buy, not to mention that a product which supports a gloabl product like Moleskine will have world-wide demands I can't refuse, so I definitely won't do it in smaller quantity and limited offer, it hurts people you know :) Not a perfectionist but I still want it to have more asthetic value and material in higher quality. Takes time, which I don't have.

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Could you post a rough of what you need to make this happen? What is the missing component: do you just need to get a mfg/dist interested or is something more required?

his will be a great product if it's out to market.

I'll buy this men.

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I am with Leslie - I think that's a great case for a Moleskine. I carry a few of them. A medium size for work, and a small Reporter for notes. I also have cahiers, and pocket size grids, etc.

I alway keep some European note cards (75x125mm) in quadrille, and the case would hold plenty of those too.

As to your travels - like you, I often head out to stationary stores when I visit a new place. On my honeymoon to St. Martin, I looked in the phone book and saw "papiterie" and told my wife we would visit. On my return, I declared about $90 in "stationary supplies" and the Custom's Agent looked at me like I was an idiot. Or a geek.

Please keep us posted - let us know what we can do to possibly help the M.Bian product move forward.

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I've been using the Spec-Ops Pocket organizer case for about a month now.

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I don't know what happened to the rest of my comment above so here I go again:

I've been using the Spec-Ops Pocket organizer case for about a month now. I can't help but notice that I've configured it like a wanna be M.Bian Moleskine Case. It's obvious to me how well thought out your design is. My Spec-Ops wanna be M.Bian Case just isn't cutting it. Is there anything I can do to convince you to once again consider producing your case?

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Thanks all!!! For the support and love of M.bian. What I need, with your help to send the post to any large suppliers you know interested, is to have quantity made in ~800pcs to thousands so that the cost can be reduced to a level even I myself can purchase. This is important not because I want to make it big, but the material cost and quality control is necessary to make it a durable product. The material you saw in various pictures are scrap fabrics from the factory, they will have to buy larger quantity to get cost down for each M.bian produced. The quality needed to be checked for every sigle piece. Anyway, my permanent job won't allow me to have time to handle this to make a product a reality. Another option is for me to license this design to some company interested in it, which I don't have time to find out who, you may forward to people you know to help :)

To make it simple, I myself cannot handle the production execution, if you want to help, send the post to people/company you think would be interested to make it happen. Thanks again all!!!!