We are happy to announce the launch of a new site that we are thrilled to share with you. Come check out www.MoleskineandMore.com that we designed for lovers of all things Moleskine. Same great quality, completely new presentation...
The site was launched mainly so we could shine a bright spotlight on the fabulous line of journals and related items that Moleskine offers. You will find the complete line of Moleskine products, almost all of which can be personalized with names, logos, and titles.
Come visit and let us know what you think. If you like what you see, tell your friends! We are eager to get the word out.
Are you a blogger? Please get in touch, we would love to organize a giveaway for your readers.
Like everyone this month, I am a little curious about some of the new TV shows premiering in the Fall primetime lineups.
So, the trailer for a new offering from NBC called Revenge caught my eye and I decided to check it out.
Here's a synopsis from the producers:
"Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp) is new to the Hamptons. She's met some of her wealthy neighbors, has made a few new friends and seemingly blends into the town. But something is a little odd about a young girl living in a wealthy town all on her own, and the truth is that Emily isn't exactly new to the neighborhood. In fact, this was once her old neighborhood, until something bad happened that ruined her family and their reputation. Now Emily is back, and she's returned to right some of those wrongs in the best way she knows how – with a vengeance."
The tail end of the episode had an unexpected Moleskine notebook sighting! Emily, the main character, receives a special memory box left to her by her father. The box is filled with his journals. You can see from the screen grabs below, they are Moleskines.
Just a little guilty pleasure TV viewing, I thought you might enjoy seeing how TV land portrays journaling. To be honest, I won't be a regular viewer. The show isn't bad, but it is a little too much like a soap opera for my taste, and I'm already much too busy writing in my journal. If you want to check out the show, you can watch the pilot episode for free at ABC.com
Moleskine introduces a new, limited-edition notebook collection for fall 2011, celebrating the inspirational and iconic visual design of the Star Wars Saga.
In 1977, Star Wars re-imagined cinema and established a new visual vocabulary, leaving an enduring mark on popular culture. Star Wars tells a story both mythic and modern by blending multiple film genres including: comedy, romance, adventure, and fantasy. Innovative special effects and groundbreaking imagery inspired by comics, robotics, the space opera mythology, and romanticism combined to create an iconic visual vocabulary that continues to inspire nearly 35 years later.
Today, Star Wars fans gather, unite, and extend the Star Wars story online and in-person using a variety of media all tied together by its indelible narrative. Moleskine understands the power of a great story and the inspiration that a community of creative fans can express. It is only natural that there should be an equally iconic notebook dedicated to capturing, sharing, and organizing the creativity of Star Wars fans, wherever they may be in the universe. Moleskine, the heir of the legendary notebooks used by avant garde artists and thinkers of the past two centuries, likes to play with genres and with icons of pop culture. The Moleskine Star Wars limited edition notebook collection was made possible through a collaboration with Lucasfilm, the film production company founded in 1971 by George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars Saga. Available in pocket and large size, with plain and ruled layouts, the collection bears on the iconic Moleskine black covers either the world famous image of the jump into hyperspace, with a stretched starfield, or the famous Star Wars title crawl, with letters seen floating in space in foreshortening perspective. The paper band and inside cover reproduce famous scenes from the saga.
Each Star Wars limited edition notebook comes with a reproduction of the original Hildebrandt Star Wars art, tucked into the Moleskine inner pocket. The illustration was created by the Brothers Hildebrandt.
PS Are you a real geek? If so, you'll enjoy this video from timeyodie that we found over on YouTube. Both impressive and hysterical. He does impressions of Star Wars Characters so well:
About a month ago, we let you in on Moleskine's new line of bags, cases, writing instruments, and more.
If you're a Moleskine fan, not only do you know the classic notebooks are perfect for documenting your travel, but just in case, you've also most likely filled out the traditional first page of every Moleskine, which prompts your name, personal information, and a reward, should the book be found by someone other than yourself. Well, Moleskine has taken it one step further with their new luggage tag line. Outfitted in classic Moleskine covers and elastic bands and with that trusty first page prompt inside, these luggage tags are a perfect addition to any itinerary.
Simple design, black color, rounded corners, elastic closure and the "In case of loss" label inside, just like the notebooks. The new Travelling collection includes bags and cases, and a series of add-ons, storage panels and pouches that can be attached and detached for organizing the inside of your bag and easily transferring your belongings from one bag to another.
There are five models, designed by Giulio Iacchetti: the Messenger with a special double flap closure, the Utility Bag which can be carried in the hand or on the shoulder for everyday city use or short trips, the Reporter, the smallest bag in the collection, the Backpack with adjustable shoulder straps and side pockets and the Tote. The add-on pouches come in small, medium, large, and pen case, and attach to the inside lining with Velcro strips. All the bags have a semi-hard, soft-touch base, to stand upright and stay protected.
For organizing your belongings in one case, there is the Storage Panelwhich fits into the Messenger, Utility, Tote and Backpack. It holds a laptop with up to a 15" screen.
Long awaited and much desired by Moleskine devotees, the new Roller Pen has arrived, in black and steel, as well as a new pencil set in the Writing Collection.
The gel ink, created specifically for Moleskine notebook paper, comes in six colors: black, blue, green, purple, red and the unique shade of brown, perfect against the ivory paper. Small colored stickers are included in each package to personalize and identify the pens.
Available in fine 0.5mm or medium 0.7mm tip, the steel Roller Pen comes with a special notebook-shaped box that you can keep to hold objects.
Rectangular with rounded corners, with a clip on the cap specifically developed to attach to the side of Moleskine notebook covers in a sleek and elegant fashion. The special penholdercan also hold up to 3 pens or pencils.
Like everything else Moleskine, the new collection is discounted 10% every day. Get yours at Jenni Bick Bookbinding!
Thanks to Diane over at Pocket Blonde for a very thorough review of the new Moleskine app for iPad!
The iTunes Moleskine app looks fantastic, just as if you had a Moleskine at your fingertips to write or draw in, like Hemingway or Monet or Klaatu the robot (maybe one of those--Monet?--didn't actually use a Moleskine, but that's not the point).
To start, you can change the color of the ribbon around the cover to match whichever type of Moleskine you want. This doesn't actually do anything other than making the app look more real and attractive, but that's quite all right. I chose yellow, but you can get red, orange, green, purple, or any of the other shades available.
You start by creating a thought, which is dated and can be given a category (that's the asterisk icon on the right). This page seems to start out lined, but you can choose what type of paper you want to write on through the menu. And there are lots of menus!
My handwriting on surfaces like this (such as the FedEx and UPS devices) isn't that great , although the smoothing-out function made it look better. One problem is that your hand rests on the iPad as you write, and so you can leave lines and squiggles on the page. Doesn't seem to have the hand-rest function I've seen on other notebook apps, where the screen basically becomes frozen so you don't pick up any extra lines.
The Moleskine app is beautifully designed and looks fantastic, just like a real Moleskine. But it is unwieldy (the reviews on iTunes are pretty brutal) and needs more work and better instructions. It's free, however, so if you're looking for a way to keep a Moleskine on your iPad and have a lot of time to figure out how it works (and the online instructions are no better than the ones show above) then you probably want to take a look at this.
You may not realize that when we're not making beautiful one of a kind journals and albums, we're almost certainly customizing large quantities of books for company events, giveaways, gifts and more. Today, 450 books came downstairs to be shipped for PubMatic, a company devoted to empowering publishers with regards to competitive advertising sales online. Chances are if you've seen ads on Huffington Post, eBay, or TV Guide Online, PubMatic was responsible. If you're lucky enough to be involved with PubMatic, be on the lookout for one of these guys:
The city mapped out on a 7x2-meter color table. Poles, roads, windows, plaster walls, doors, trains, buses, newsstands, trees, benches, trash cans, awnings. Each object has its own color, each city its own predominant color scheme. Students from NABA in Milan went searching for colors, snapping 800 Polaroid images. Other students from other schools around the world will repeat the experience of Sense the Place, a travelling study on a city's visual identity, curated by architect Luca Buttafava and industrial designer Alessandro Confalonieri.
These students can take notes and mark colors on the city streets using a special edition created for them by Moleskine. There is a QR code inside to follow the evolution of Sense the Place throughout the world.
Originally published in 1943, Le Petit Prince is Antoine de Saint-Exupery's story of an aviator who has crashed in the Sahara desert, where he meets the Prince. As the aviator learns the story of the Prince the reader meets a series of fantastic characters and is inspired by subtle insights into human nature.
In commemoration of the novella's status as one of the most beloved stories of all time, Moleskine has introduced their Special Edition Little Prince Notebooks. Heirs of the legendary notebooks used by Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Chatwin and more, Moleskine notebooks have often been used in the making of treasured masterpieces.
Available in pocket & large sizes, with ruled or plain pages.
