7 posts tagged “notebook”
Here's some more photos of the real Moleskine Surprise boxes I've received on Monday. Last year when the Volant series was launched, collaborating with Moleskine Asia, we created beautifully designed envelopes for people to put colorful Volants in and send as Xmas gift. From our experience with huge Moleskine display during City Notebook's TOKYO/KYOTO release, we know people would love a gift box in the form of a Moleskine notebook for this Xmas. In addition, the retail price is almost like 30% off buying the contents individually. Its never done before.
What's unique about these boxes is that when sending them as gifts, you can almost certain they are on the top of your can't-go-wrong gift list, no matter what the content is. That's one big achievement as a brand. But don't get it wrong, these boxes aren't one of those quick and dirty ways some retailers would do to clean up old stocks, they are thoughtfully designed into themes for customers to choose easily when they think of their gift recipients.
For a more elaborated present, you may find it hard to stuff these big boxes into a Xmas hamper, but that's the point isn't it, a hamper full of discovery… and surprises. I can tell you the Luxury, For Him and For Her sleeves are the most handsome, they can be easily adapted to your hamper's color theme.
To give you an idea how large these boxes are, I've put some pocket and large sized Moleskines beside the box. There's plenty of space still to add more stuffs to your present, and again the box is not only a nice packaging but can be doubled as a storage box approximately the size of an A4 paper (unfortunately because of the round corners, an A4 paper cannot be laid flat inside).
It will be great fun to assemble your own perfect stationery Xmas gift box based on these. Put in a few more interesting products like MT masking tapes, Amadana calculator, rubber stamps, etc and a personal note written with ink and paper, voilà! A thoughtful and useful gift. The Moleskine Surprise Boxes are going to arrive city'super and LOG-ON before this weekend. For a list of available countries in Asia, please contact Moleskine Asia.
I learned from KOLO this new project since last year May's National Stationery Show, a portable travel notebook which combines photo storage and journaling functions using a flexible refill system. As you know, KOLO is almost entirely about photo archiving and presentation, they obviously did a great job to create clean and stylish product lines but most of these products are to be used *afterward*. You select photos, plan layouts, do scrapbooking stuffs, archiving and presenting the final outcome as a decor or sharing with friends and relatives after events. I was extremely excited to see how they would execute this travel notebook idea and come up with a final product, which you can carry with you during travel and making memories on the fly. I had a lot of expectations because bringing archival quality to a product you use everyday inevitably requires a whole new mindset. I mean KOLO can be perfect in their top notch material quality but an object you would use on daily basis subjects to a whole new set of hazardous situations especially when we are talking about travel. What a challenge.
- works well with Polaroids and Instax mini
- portable size but smaller than A5
- pockets to store receipts, tickets, etc
- paper good for roller ball, fountain pen and watercolor
- soft cover to handle bulging contents
- refill notebooks can be filed pleasantly to an album or archive system
- customizable to personal style
- enclosure not intruding front cover
- photo and writing on the same page possible
- clean cover design, tough to resist travel tortures
- archival quality
Stepcase Lifehack recently has an article by Dustin Wax about "How to Live Artfully". Interesting comments from fellow viewers and you've got to spare a few minutes rethinking about life. The tips may sound trivial to materialists but when you appreciate life's finer details you open up yourself to connect to people in whole new ways.
lovely article! Attention to details with appreciation, logging dreams seriously are among the things I do most often to get inspired. I have one thing to add:
Create Methods: most of us most of the time REACT to what’s happening to us, but before you react, try to create a whole new method to tackle the issues on hand. This habit will give you a lot of insights and train yourself to be even more creative, one step at a time. You will soon discover that nothing is really impossible too. Just remember *everything is connected*, you just have to find paths leading to what you intend to happen. Most rewarding by itself in my life.
More than a year ago I contacted Field Notes for wholesale pricing so that I could start selling them in our stores. Somehow communication broke down and I never received a sample. There are a lot of good reviews out there but without being able to touch and test it I refrained from selling it in our stores on blind faith. Finally I re-established contact and got a pack of 3 notebooks from their wholesale program.
- front cover Futura typeface, black ink on Durotone "packing brown wrap" French paper
- perfectly cut round corners. If you look closely, many notebooks have ugly round corners
- I tested the paper and cover for acidity. Their PH values are nearly 9, which means slightly alkaline. Perhaps they added alkaline buffer to make it last longer intentionally or is it just my imagination? At least it is acid-free.
- I prefer roller ball, ink doesn't bleed through Field Notes' pages. I have to use Moleskine's sketch book instead of plain notebook to prevent bleeding, when you count this in, the price per page of Field Notes becomes cheaper.
- It fits perfectly on my pocket size Moleskine. Now I clip Field Notes on top of my Moleskine both as a handsome cover and my favorite to-do list
- soy-based ink printing is environmental friendly
Jackie Poutasse created The Chameleon Notebook modeled after Traveler's Notebook with some nice twists. I received mine in end March and have been using it for a specific purpose: Tarot Book.
The last day of our Easter holiday I played with liquid image transfer, useless film strips, eyelets and Polaroid for about an hour.
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