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May 03 2012
Democratic painting in Berlin
Draftsman's Congress - St. Elisabeth Church, BerlinPencils, charcoal, brushes, paint: there are no rules, the only thing that matters is the honesty of one's ideas. The Congress will continue throughout the Biennale, growing day by day with drawings. Special sessions will be held by the artist, including one organized for Moleskine in which artists and the public use drawings to "discuss" the major conflicts that have affected the world during the last decade.
The same open platform concept returns in the Moleskine special edition, designed by Althamer: a black notebook with a white space silk-screened on the cover; the cover is also a blank page. Some of these notebooks will be painted by the author and sold at the Biennale's official bookstore.
Draftsman's Congress
Seventh Berlin Biennale
April 27 to July 1,
St Elisabeth Church, Berlin-Mitte
Berlin
April 27 2012
Click pens and pencils
A new video presents the latest additions to the 2012 Writing collection: a click pen and pencil and an accessories set which includes a sharpener and a special Moleskine eraser.
Joining the classic Roller Pen is a new model: the Click Roller Pen. Classic Moleskine design, rectangular and black, it attaches to the notebook with a special clip. Fine or medium tip, refillable with gel ink in black, blue, red, green, purple and brown. The colored stickers can be used to customize and personalize the pen. Designer: Giulio Iacchetti.
Same design for the Click Pencil, with a medium 0.7 mm tip, refillable with HB lead. It pairs with the Moleskine eraser. The eraser is black, rectangular and designed to fit in the Pen Holder which attaches to the notebook and holds up to three implements from the Writing collection.
Available at the Moleskine Store and in select stores around the world.
April 19 2012
A time capsule for handwriting
The Eighth Book of Ecriture Infinie is making its second appearance in Venice, at the literary festival, Incroci di Civilità. Another opportunity to contribute to the project by leaving your mark on one of the large blank pages.
The Eighth Book of Ecriture Infinie is making its second appearance in Venice, at the literary festival, Incroci di Civilità. Another opportunity to contribute to the project by leaving your mark on one of the large blank pages.
April 13 2012
Ever Tried Analog SMS Texting?
1992-2012. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of SMS texting, Moleskine presents a new limited edition, a notebook that becomes a ballistic device for launching analog text messages. Maximum range: 5.18 m.
The idea comes from Pietro Corraini, who was inspired by the classic slingshot used for shooting notes between school desks. The cover is the launching pad; the three notches indicate the different load and range levels. The elastic is loaded with one note at a time, folded in four. Inside there is a booklet with instructions, field-tested suggestions and 56 pieces of paper ammunition including 8 which say "I love you," 4 "call me" and 4 "the answer is..."
The idea comes from Pietro Corraini, who was inspired by the classic slingshot used for shooting notes between school desks. The cover is the launching pad; the three notches indicate the different load and range levels. The elastic is loaded with one note at a time, folded in four. Inside there is a booklet with instructions, field-tested suggestions and 56 pieces of paper ammunition including 8 which say "I love you," 4 "call me" and 4 "the answer is..."
"The device," say the instructions, "is especially effective in crowded, noisy environments for sending messages in code, romantic messages, urgent information and telephone numbers. Suitable for everyone, it has been tested in different classrooms, offices and outdoor areas. Keep out of reach of children."
Moleskine SMS is being presented in Milan for Design Week as part of "Hacked, 100 Hours of Rebel Creativity" promoted by la Rinascente. Along with SMS, there is another play on hacking: Moleskine Orchestra by British artist Felix Thorn. To learn about the complete program of Moleskine events at Fuorisalone, click here
Available at the MoleskineStore and, as a worldwide exclusive for Milan Design Week, at the Design Supermarket in la Rinascente and at the bookstore Libreria 121+ in Milan.
@ HACKED
Design Supermarket, la Rinascente
Piazza Duomo, Milan
April 15 - 30, daily from 7 AM to midnight
Moleskine SMS is being presented in Milan for Design Week as part of "Hacked, 100 Hours of Rebel Creativity" promoted by la Rinascente. Along with SMS, there is another play on hacking: Moleskine Orchestra by British artist Felix Thorn. To learn about the complete program of Moleskine events at Fuorisalone, click here
Available at the MoleskineStore and, as a worldwide exclusive for Milan Design Week, at the Design Supermarket in la Rinascente and at the bookstore Libreria 121+ in Milan.
@ HACKED
Design Supermarket, la Rinascente
Piazza Duomo, Milan
April 15 - 30, daily from 7 AM to midnight
The Moleskine Orchestra
Sculptures in motion that play percussion, they make up the Moleskine Orchestra, the musical design installation created by Felix Thorn, visionary composer and music and technology expert, for Milan Design Week. A new kind of hybridization that joins the many hacks created by artists, life hackers, inventors and enthusiasts from around the world who enjoy rearranging Moleskine design objects in a variety of different ways.
Felix Thorn at work during the creation of the musical machine
Sketches from the design stage
Moleskine Orchestra is being presented at La Rinascente in Milan as part of "Hacked, 100 Hours of Rebel Creativity" along with Moleskine SMS, another play on hacking, created by designer Pietro Corraini. To learn about the complete program of Moleskine events at Fuorisalone, click here.
Felix Thorn (1985, Brighton, England) invented and patented Felix's Machines, musical machines assembled piece by piece which combine the artist's electronic passion with his musical genius.
Moleskine Orchestra
@ HACKED Design Supermarket,
la Rinascente Piazza Duomo, Milan
April 15 - 30, daily from 7 AM to midnight
April 12 2012
Moleskine backpack, now also in a small version
A new video presents the Moleskine backpacks: rectangular shape, adjustable straps, waterproof material, rigid rubber base. Now also available in the Small version.
The video, created by the Combocut studio, plays with the backpacks as if they were musical instruments; the rubber base that is used as a drum keeps the backpack standing upright, protecting it when you put it down as well as making it easier to find things inside.
The Small version fits a laptop up to 10", the larger version up to 15".
The backpack can be customized with Multipurpose Cases, Shells and, in the larger version, with the Storage Panel, a multipurpose panel that makes the backpack rigid, helps keep your objects neatly organized and makes it easy to move them from one bag to another. The pockets are zipped on the inside, with two more open pockets on the sides for those objects you want to keep handy. Black, inside and out.
Available at the MoleskineStore and in select stores around the world.
April 04 2012
African Tales in Lagos, Nigeria
Moleskine takes part in the Lagos Black Heritage Festival with a new special edition. Directed by literature Nobelist Wole Solyinka, the festival explores the themes of the African diaspora.
Moleskine takes part in the Lagos Black Heritage Festival with a new special edition. Directed by literature Nobelist Wole Solyinka, the festival explores the themes of the African diaspora.
March 30 2012
Lead that doesn't break
A new video tutorial led by Pix, a surreal analog/digital anchorman, presents the Moleskine Pencil Set. Fluorescent or graphite, in limewood or cedar, they clip onto your notebook with a special cap. The tip is highly resistant, to avoid the annoyance of broken lead in the sharpener. The cross-section is rectangular, recalling an antique carpenter's pencil. The matte casing is exclusively black. The sharpener with an extra strong blade is made to measure for Moleskine pencils. The pencils come with a set of 24 decorative mini stickers.
In the video, made by Gluekit, the phantom anchorman Pix demonstrates the analog set: the pencils, the accessories and the two new fluorescent colors, yellow and orange, to highlight and add color.
A companion to journals and notebooks, the Moleskine pencil also attaches to the cover with the Pen Holder, which holds up to three pens or pencils, or the special rectangular Moleskine eraser. Also part of the Accessories Set are the silicon rubber grips to improve handling and make extended writing or drawing sessions more comfortable.
The Pencil Set is available at the Moleskine Store in three different combinations: a set with two pencils, a cap and a sharpener; a set with graphite pencils only (2 with 2B lead and 1 HB); and a fluorescent set with two colored pencils, a cap and a sharpener.
March 29 2012
Special editions: Hong Kong Film Festival
Moleskine is participating in the festival with a special edition and a small exhibit. Director Peter Ho-Sun Chan, the show's guest of honor, will be featured.
Moleskine is participating in the festival with a special edition and a small exhibit. Director Peter Ho-Sun Chan, the show's guest of honor, will be featured.
March 23 2012
Moleskine on Pinterest
Moleskine on Pinterest: follow the official page and join the myMoleskine board! Find out how to participate.
Moleskine on Pinterest: follow the official page and join the myMoleskine board! Find out how to participate.
Art Journal. Art that leaves its mark
What is the artist trying to communicate? How much do my personal emotions influence how I perceive a work of art? Where can I find art today? How can I transfer the ideas that I get from art to my personal and professional life? Moleskine introduces Art Journal, a new notebook that you can fill using the subject areas and specific sections for archiving, designing and reflecting on one's experience with art.
The notebook includes a calendar marked with important world events, a timeline that traces the history of art from impressionism to the present, different subject sections to fill out with information and impressions on exhibits, museums, private viewings, works of art and artists, and blank pages to fill and customize with drawings, photos, labels and personal notes.
To try out the page layouts or download them in your language, all the templates are available here.
Art Journal was written in collaboration with Art For Business, a non-profit association that has been promoting research on the artistic experience since 2007.
The Art Journal is part of the Moleskine Passions collection, a series of notebooks dedicated to the passions of life; new additions for 2012 include Home Life, Restaurant, Chocolate and Beer. All are available at the Moleskine Store.
March 21 2012
The joy of university notes
Beedie School of Business - Vancouver Do you still have your old notes from university? Usually these are writings that we keep in a safe place because they have great sentimental value. And often they turn out to be useful many years later.
To give these university notes the dignity they deserve, different schools from around the world have decided to include classic Moleskine notebooks in their welcome kits for new students: from the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice to the School of Visual Arts in New York; from Berklee College of Music in Boston to the large academies and business schools of Oxford and Harvard.
These notebooks and journals with specially created covers and bands, in a variety of sizes and colors, are work tools for taking notes, organizing ideas and content, summarizing concepts or outlining projects for an exam. They are blank pages for writing, underlining and highlighting that you can go back to again and again to re-read and study. Years later, long after university has ended, you can can hold these same pages in your hand and leaf through them, following their evolution.
Here is a brief selection of "university" notebooks from around the world:
School of Visual Arts - New York Università Ca' Foscari - Venice
Berklee College of Music - Boston Harvard Business School - Boston
Oxford Business School - UK National University - Taiwan
March 20 2012
Restaurant Journal Templates
The Restaurant Journal is part of the Moleskine Passions collection, a
series of notebooks dedicated to the passions of life. Restaurants, bars, cafés, takeaways and chefs' tips: plan or relive your gourmet experiences. The journal has 5 themed sections and 5 tabbed sections to personalize.In the myMoleskine/MSK area you can download and test the page layouts of the Restaurant Journals: you can fill in the pages online and then print them out or you can download pages in .pdf format, then print, cut, fill in them by hand and finally paste them on your Journal.
The Restaurant Templates are available in 11 languages, pick yours:
English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese;
Italian;
Francais;
German;
Spanish;
Russian.
March 13 2012
Messages: the new MSK templates
Download, print, cut out and stick on the new templates created specifically to personalize the new postal notebooks; three items, one of which comes in five different themes. At myMoleskine.
Download, print, cut out and stick on the new templates created specifically to personalize the new postal notebooks; three items, one of which comes in five different themes. At myMoleskine.
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March 12 2012
Bookworm and the literary festival
The Bookworm International Literary Festival includes an exhibit of decorated notebooks, a Moleskine seminar and an edition with customized band and cover. March 9 to 23 in Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.
The Bookworm International Literary Festival includes an exhibit of decorated notebooks, a Moleskine seminar and an edition with customized band and cover. March 9 to 23 in Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.
March 08 2012
Messages: the new postal notebooks
Frames from the video, by Gluekit.
The collection comes in two formats. The Postal Notebook, the notebook that becomes an envelope, is designed for people who love letter-writing and freehand creations. The side flaps turn the notebook into an envelope. The pages inside are blank, ready to be personalized with images, drawings, words and thoughts. The cover has space for postage and a mailing address. The second piece in the collection is the Note Card, a notebook with a separate envelope created for shorter messages.
The notebooks in the Messages collection are available in pocket or large format, in six colors: maroon, dark blue, light gray, terracotta and ecru. The cover is made of heavy cardboard with visible Singer stitching.
To decorate the Messages pages, you can find a collection of specially created MSK templates in the myMoleskine section that you can download, print, cut out and stick on. There are seven subjects in a variety of formats: City, Message, Happening, Feed, Gift, Power, Idea, plus a blank template. You can download these here.
Downloadable MSK templates to decorate the Messages pages.
Moleskine Messages are available at the Moleskine Store.
A new video presents Moleskine Messages, a new way to think of and use your notebook which, for the first time, transforms itself, turning into an envelope that you can address and send in the mail.
March 06 2012
Moleskine Shells described by Pixelman
A new video tutorial demonstrates the function of the Shells, the new collection of cases designed to organize, protect and carry your cloud of analog and digital objects.
The video, made by the Gluekit studio, tells us about the new collection through the advice of a robot-anchorman.
The small version was also designed for a smart phone, with a loop for the earphones and a slot to attach the Shell to the shoulder strap or handles of a bag so your smart phone is always handy.
The Shells are made of the same semi-hard, water-repellent material as the protective base of all Moleskine bags; the inside can be customized with pockets that attach with Velcro strips.
Available at the MoleskineStore
February 29 2012
Bricks and blank pages. New video with LEGO®.
The plate is red, yellow, green or black, depending on the model of notebook. The inside pocket holds a special collection of related adhesive labels, to customize the notebook in LEGO® style.
The video is made by Combocut Film. The set is a regular household kitchen; after the flight, you return to the ordinary land of reality. For grown-up children who have never stopped flying.
Available at the MoleskineStore, MoleskineUS and MoleskineAsia.
For grown-up children who have never stopped flying. A new stop-motion video presents the series of LEGO® hacked notebooks; an original building plate is set into the cover in green, yellow, red or black. The inside pocket holds a special collection of related adhesive labels.
February 28 2012
The Faber Museum: Via del Campo 29
Original records, photographs, curiosities and unique collectibles together with sheet music, books, notebooks and CDs. A new space in homage to Fabrizio De Andrè and to the singers from the "Scuola Genovese" of yesterday and today opens in Genoa, at Via del Campo, 29; the location that once housed the historical shop of "Musica Giovanni Tassio" is now home to the emporium/museum viadelcampo29rosso.
A charming setting linked to places which were the subjects of songs by Faber, Luigi Tenco and other important Ligurian singers who regularly frequented the typical mazes and lanes of the old city behind the Porto Antico.
Moleskine celebrates this new space with a personalized notebook, with the logo stamped on the cover and a red staff paper band. For sale in stores.
A charming setting linked to places which were the subjects of songs by Faber, Luigi Tenco and other important Ligurian singers who regularly frequented the typical mazes and lanes of the old city behind the Porto Antico.Moleskine celebrates this new space with a personalized notebook, with the logo stamped on the cover and a red staff paper band. For sale in stores.
February 17 2012
Chocolate Journal
A notebook specially designed for chocolate lovers and professionals, Moleskine introduces the Chocolate Journal. From the best cocoas to percentages of purity, from tastings to pairings, the notebook begins with suggestions and personalized recipes from Ernst Knam, the great master confectioner; included between a mousse and a chocolate dessert are steps for making the original Moleskine Praline.
Following this are subject sections to fill out, recipes, tastings, events and favorite addresses to remember, all to be customized with notes, photos, drawings, stickers, and blank pages for jotting down everything about the world of chocolate. There is an expandable pocket at the back which holds 200 adhesive labels with related designs and writings.
Following this are subject sections to fill out, recipes, tastings, events and favorite addresses to remember, all to be customized with notes, photos, drawings, stickers, and blank pages for jotting down everything about the world of chocolate. There is an expandable pocket at the back which holds 200 adhesive labels with related designs and writings.
Related MSK templates can be downloaded here
A notebook specially designed for chocolate lovers, enthusiasts and professionals. Inside there are subject sections, useful suggestions, a cocoa map and the exclusive recipe for making the Moleskine Praline, by Ernst Knam, the great master confectioner.
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