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The Moleskine Foundation's latest exhibition features notebooks of artists and architects such as Michael Graves, Carlo Stanga, and 2022 Pritzker Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré

2022-05-13T17:07:00-04:00

A new book arts exhibition from celebrated notebook maker Moleskine is now on view at One World Trade Center’s One World Observatory, marking the first public exhibition of artwork in the attraction’s seven-year history.

Opened today, the Moleskine Foundation’s Detour New York exhibition features notebooks by the late architect Michael Graves, Italian architect Carlo Stanga, and this year’s Pritzker Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré.

Carlo Stanga, "I had a dream" (2019). Image courtesy Moleskine Foundation.

According to the foundation, the suite of 75 individual artworks by various creative thinkers “celebrates how blank pages can become a work of art in themselves, providing moments of inspiration and introspection.” The exhibition is separated into five themes: Metamorphosis, Memory, Borders, Journey, and Imagination. Each notebook tells a different story, dream, or “distinctive way of being and relating to the world.”

In Memory, viewers can see this introspection perhaps most espe...

Win the latest Grids & Guides Notebook for Visual Thinkers!

2018-10-15T12:00:00-04:00

In need of a fresh sketchbook to jot down all those ideas? Princeton Architectural Press has released the latest version of their popular Grids & Guides Notebook for Visual Thinkers — now in a classy navy! Thanks to Princeton Architectural Press, Archinect is giving away five notebooks to our readers!

Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.

Bounded in a navy cloth hardcover, this 160-page notebook features eight distinctive grid designs interspersed with various scientific diagrams — including golden ratio constructions, simple machines, a chart of unit equivalents, optics, and even cell biology.

Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.

Want a chance to win the “Grids & Guides” notebook? Fill out this survey by the deadline on Thursday, October 25, end of day. Five notebooks are available to win. Winners will be announced in t...

A sketchbook you can draw on by hand, upload to the cloud, then erase in your microwave

2017-07-27T13:10:00-04:00

For designers who love to draw by hand on real paper but want to store those sketches in the cloud, there is now a kind of a refined, tech-savvy etch-o-sketch in the form of the Rocketbook Wave Smart Notebook from self-described "notebook innovators" Joe Lemay and Jake Epstein.

Using a special pen known as a Pilot FriXon, one can write or draw in the notebook by hand, and then choose a symbol at the bottom of the page that is linked to a particular app in the cloud. The information on the physical sheet is uploaded to the cloud by taking a picture of it with one's phone, but the ink in which it is written turns invisible once it is microwaved, making it unneccessary to own more than one notebook (presuming, of course, that access to the information on the cloud remains unobstructed).

Mr. Lemay and Mr. Epstein were motivated to attempt to reinvent the notebook partly because they were tired of the stagnancy in the spiral-bound market. The product, which officially dropped on June ...

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The Moleskine Foundation's latest exhibition features notebooks of artists and architects such as Michael Graves, Carlo Stanga, and 2022 Pritzker Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré​

Win the latest Grids & Guides Notebook for Visual Thinkers!

A sketchbook you can draw on by hand, upload to the cloud, then erase in your microwave

The Moleskine Foundation's latest exhibition features notebooks of artists and architects such as Michael Graves, Carlo Stanga, and 2022 Pritzker Prize winner Diébédo Francis Kéré