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News: 2010 Archives

27 December 2010 Moleskine Kobo Cover

Moleskine Kobo Cover

Moleskine introduces the Moleskine Kobo Cover. The cover seamlessly combines paper pages with a digital device and further emphasizes the Moleskine digital to analog connection.

27 December 2010 Enjoy the Tweet Dice

Enjoy the Tweet Dice

Discover how analog and digital can live together thanks to your tweets.

21 December 2010 An author a month - Sebastian Karim

An author a month - Sebastian Karim

November - Sebastian Karim featured for Author a Month initiative.

19 December 2010 Print, Cut, Paste and Play

Print, Cut, Paste and Play

Moleskine wishes everyone a creative and exciting 2011 with the Wise Dice. You download them, print them, cut them, glue them, roll them, read your advice, and see what happens.

18 December 2010 Mini Planner Video: the Making of

Mini Planner Video: the Making of

After having seen the Extra Small Planners video, haven't you wondered about its making of? We have. Here is a new rock'n'roll video in which the artist shares his creativity with us.

17 December 2010 The Moleskine gift box

The Moleskine gift box

The Moleskine box is a collection of special gift boxes in the shape of a classic Moleskine notebook. Each box contains 3 Moleskine items according to 6 themes to match all personalities.

15 December 2010 Manhattan New Music Project's 20th Anniversary

Manhattan New Music Project's 20th Anniversary

To celebrate the MNMP anniversary and the debut of a newly commissioned composition, Moleskine released a custom-made Large Music Notebook with embossed cover.

13 December 2010 Horizontal Planning Templates 2011

Horizontal Planning Templates 2011

Horizontal Planning Templates are back by popular demand, available in pocket, large and extra large sizes.

10 December 2010 Black and Square

Black and Square

"Black2" is the exhibition conceived by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic that analyzes the presence of the black square shape in the contemporary object. Among the fifty items picked up, a Moleskine notebook.

06 December 2010 Carnets d'inspiration+

Carnets d'inspiration+

Moleskine notebook becomes a work of art, a research tool beyond plain paper, to help raise funds for the cystic fibrosis research. Carnets d'ispiration+ returns with an art exhibit and a charity event gathering more than fifty sketchbooks interpreted by international contemporary artists.

02 December 2010 The Extra Small

The Extra Small

A new video illustrates the Extra Small Planners, the super portable organizing tools introduced by Moleskine for people who love small writing. Tiny and compact, they come in six different colors, with daily or weekly layouts.

25 November 2010 Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Celebrating Thanksgiving Day with the CityWalks of Chronicle Books. Download and print for free in MSK format: Washington D.C., San Francisco and New York.

24 November 2010 National Gallery guidebooks

National Gallery guidebooks

Moleskine has partnered with the National Gallery museaum to release two city guide notebooks with a twist: The London Painting Trail and the Little Red Book twin set.

23 November 2010 Moleskine loves Cinema

Moleskine loves Cinema

Special editions dedicated to prominent film directors and international film festival; the Film Journal and the Storyboard Notebook, creative tools for movie lovers. Moleskine and the magic of cinema.

22 November 2010 Folio Tools: Stick Notes and Memo Cards

Folio Tools: Stick Notes and Memo Cards

A new video introduces the Folio Tools, a small, compact and convenient collection of tools to keep your ideas, notes and messages fresh and always at your finger tips.

19 November 2010 Bruce Chatwin's unpublished letters

Bruce Chatwin's unpublished letters

Three days of exhibitions, encounters, readings, film projections on the theme of travels. The Chatwin Prize - walking around the world", returns to commemorate the English novelist and travel writer, on its ninth year.

18 November 2010 Tweet @Moleskine Giveaway

Tweet @Moleskine Giveaway

Moleskine Digital Autumn Giveaway are back and this is just the beginning!

17 November 2010 Detour Shanghai, the new authors speak

Detour Shanghai, the new authors speak

New videos from Detour Shanghai on Vimeo channel: 4 authors speak about their work disclosing inspirations and personal memories through their Moleskine notebooks.

16 November 2010 Moleskine in deutsch

Moleskine in deutsch

Getting more and more international, Moleskine.com speaks German too as from today. Other languages include Italian, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

08 November 2010 Moleskine celebrates Paolo Conte

Moleskine celebrates Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte returns to his public with "Nelson", a nostalgic still intriguing and ravishing album featuring fifteen new contemporary songs. Moleskine joined the release of his latest music effort with a custom made X-Large notebook.

04 November 2010 A Moleskine day

A Moleskine day

In this video, Brooklyn based artist Jessica Findely gives her personal interpretation of an ordinary day as seen through a Moleskine Planner, turning it into different animated sets.

29 October 2010 Moleskine joins designers in Tokyo

Moleskine joins designers in Tokyo

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Tokyo Designers Week, a landmark on the international creative scene for everyone seeking contemporary design innovations.

27 October 2010 Moleskine speaks French

Moleskine speaks French

Bonjour, Moleskine.com speaks with a new French accent, starting from today. The site is already available in other seven languages including Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

14 October 2010 The Planners Collection gets larger. And smaller.

The Planners Collection gets larger. And smaller.

A video by Dutch visual artist Rogier Wieland introduces the Planners/Diaries Collection 2011, with a sneak peek at the new entries: the Extra Small and the A4.

14 October 2010 Diary Art, notebook exhibit in Barcelona

Diary Art, notebook exhibit in Barcelona

Taking place at FAD in Barcelona, a new notebook exhibition showcases the works of artists from the cultural association Terminal B and from the Urbansketchers.org network.

13 October 2010 Detour: Urban Poetry in Hong Kong

Detour: Urban Poetry in Hong Kong

A video starring the godfather of Chinese hip hop MC Yan reveals the streets of Hong Kong and its people. MC Yan is one of the new Chinese authors participating in the travelling Detour exhibition, in Shanghai.

08 October 2010 Cut&Paste at Buchmesse

Cut&Paste at Buchmesse

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Moleskine presents the new 2011 collections, while entertaining visitors with a special cut&paste workshop.

08 October 2010 Moleskine by Marc Jacobs

Moleskine by Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs and Moleskine get together to celebrate Barneys CO-OP's 25th anniversary. The limited edition notebook features a modern pattern specially styled by the fashion designer.

07 October 2010  Big Draw: Berlin+Barcelona

Big Draw: Berlin+Barcelona

Moleskine joined the Big Draw campaign with the release of two different custom-made sketchbooks, supporting the creative projects in Berlin and Barcelona.

06 October 2010 Moleskine meets zombies at Sitges

Moleskine meets zombies at Sitges

Moleskine celebrates the 43rd edition of the Sitges Film Festival with the release of two special edition notebooks: a Film Journal and a Storyboard Notebook.

04 October 2010 Moleskine Pac-Man

Moleskine Pac-Man

Moleskine celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the hungriest video-game hero of all time, with a limited-edition notebook series featuring pixelated cover art and mini-stickers.

01 October 2010 New step in the Detour journey: Shanghai

New step in the Detour journey: Shanghai

Detour, the travelling exhibition of decorated Moleskine notebooks, comes to a new chapter, in Shanghai at Bund18.

30 September 2010 New Covers for iPhone and iPad

New Covers for iPhone and iPad

Moleskine introduces two new hybrid tools for the contemporary nomads: a Smartphone Cover compatible with iPhone 3G and 3GS, and a Tablet Cover, iPad compatible.

29 September 2010 Trourist gets its own Moleskine notebook

Trourist gets its own Moleskine notebook

Trourists, the web community where travelling it's about true experiences, launched a contest on a new limited edition Moleskine notebook.

28 September 2010 Moleskine speaks Korean

Moleskine speaks Korean

Reaching ever further, Moleskine.com has a new section dedicated to the Korean market. The site is already available in other languages such as English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and both simplified and traditional Chinese.

24 September 2010 Moleskine meets Peanuts

Moleskine meets Peanuts

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of iconic comic strip Peanuts, Moleskine releases a new limited edition collection. Strictly black and white, the notebooks come in two sizes with debossed and silkscreen printed covers.

22 September 2010 Creative Review Tweetup

Creative Review Tweetup

Creative Review paid homage to its web supporters and to its 180,000+ Twitter followers, inviting its online community for an evening to remember: the first ever Creative Review Tweetup. Moleskine was in the spotlight as a partner of the event with a customized pocket sketchbook, given to all guests.

22 September 2010 75 Tips for Perfect Notebooking

75 Tips for Perfect Notebooking

245 pages of ideas, tutorials and solutions to celebrate the intimate relationship between life hacking, digital nomadism and the old classic pocket notebook.

20 September 2010 Moleskine meets Blogfest

Moleskine meets Blogfest

On the occasion of the 2010 edition, Moleskine notebooks customized for the BlogFest

14 September 2010 Milano Film Festival 2010

Milano Film Festival 2010

Ten days of international screenings and independent cinema events, including a retrospective on New York filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and a tribute to British director Peter Watkins.

13 September 2010 myMoleskine Reloaded

myMoleskine Reloaded

A bunch of different new cool features: share information with the community, upload your images, videos and hacks.

10 September 2010 Afrofuturism in Mantua

Afrofuturism in Mantua

Nigerian-born arist Fatimah Tuggar is among the most prominent guests of the international literary congress Festivaletteratura. She will participate into a workshop about "Afrofantasy" organized by lettera27, a NGO supported by Moleskine.

06 September 2010 moleskine.com in Chinese

moleskine.com in Chinese

Starting from now, moleskine.com is also available in Simplified Chinese, the characters used in Mainland China.

18 August 2010 Moleskine Video Favourites

Moleskine Video Favourites

On YouTube favourites, Moleskine notebooks are celebrated with a new artistic flair. Please visit our page and leave a comment.

13 August 2010 Moleskine Leopard

Moleskine Leopard

Moleskine is celebrating the 63rd edition of the Locarno Film Festival with a release of two customised notebooks: a Classic Pocket with embossed the symbol of the Festival, and a Film Journal.

06 August 2010 Haldern Pop Festival

Haldern Pop Festival

Haldern Pop Moleskine, a new special edition to celebrate the music festival.

30 July 2010 Detour 2010 Mapping Contemporary Venice

Detour 2010 Mapping Contemporary Venice

The city of Venice seen in a new prospective, then mapped and reinterpreted in Moleskine notebooks, on view until September 20th.

30 July 2010  ¡ Hola a todos !

¡ Hola a todos !

From now on Moleskine website also speaks spanish, the second mother tongue language most spoken in the world.

27 July 2010 Yellow, orange or green?

Yellow, orange or green?

Orange for lines, yellow for squares, green for plain pages. In an established Moleskine tradition, each paper band colour corresponds to a specific page layout.

23 July 2010 Moleskine on Flickr

Moleskine on Flickr

Explore the world of Moleskine notebooks on the Flickr official page: images which tell about the new collections, special...

23 July 2010 Online sharing

Online sharing

New features to share more easily all the news from the Moleskine world.

20 July 2010 Welcome to Moleskine New York head office

Welcome to Moleskine New York head office

Moleskine introduces the newhead office in New York, a large open space in the Chelsea neighborhood where many creative industry...

20 July 2010 New sizes, new colours

New sizes, new colours

The collection of Volant notebooks grows with the addition of new sizes and new colors.

20 July 2010 Urban Sketchers: the world one drawing at a time

Urban Sketchers: the world one drawing at a time

Over 200 Urban Sketchers meet up for the first time in the first annual International Sketching Symposium, taking place July 29-31, 2010 in Portland, OR.

15 July 2010 New Folio Folder

New Folio Folder

To hold letters and A4 size documents, a soft black folder with paper lining, closing as an envelope.

06 July 2010 The Moleskine head office

The Moleskine head office

A new photo set portrays the Moleskine head office in Milan, with a staff of about 60 people from Italy, France, Germany, UK, US, Argentina, Spain, Serbia, and Russia.

02 July 2010 What's in your bag?

What's in your bag?

(Above, Ko Siu Chuk's bag)Pocket notebook and city maps for the traveller, laptop and planner for the manager, sketchbook...

02 July 2010 MSK: video and backstage pictures

MSK: video and backstage pictures

Paper background, lights, glue, ruler and even an iron: a series of pictures reveal the backstage of one of the most popular Moleskine video on YouTube.

28 June 2010 New 18 Month Planners

New 18 Month Planners

From July 2010 to December 2011: 18 months of pages to plan. For those whose new year starts in September.

28 June 2010 Lost and Found

Lost and Found

Today on the first page of each Moleskine notebook a reward notice is still printed: "As a reward: $___".

24 June 2010 New sizes, new colours

New sizes, new colours

The collection of Volant notebooks gets larger, with the addition of new editions.

21 June 2010 A Media Lab in Dakar

A Media Lab in Dakar

Moleskine supports the Kër-Thiossane association in Dakar and its new Media Lab.

15 June 2010 Kindle Cover: a new analog-digital hybrid

Kindle Cover: a new analog-digital hybrid

Moleskine has created a new analog-digital hybrid designed for e-bookworms: a cover for the Amazon Kindle, the world's most popular e-book reader.

07 June 2010 Milan meets Shanghai

Milan meets Shanghai

A series of decorated notebooks created by young creative talents of Domus Academy are travelling around the world to represent the city of Milan. Now in Shanghai for the EXPO.

07 June 2010 A Portfolio for large projects

A Portfolio for large projects

A place to keep all your important projects and documents. For people who love contemporary design, the new Portfolio Professional offers 6six large pockets in A4 format.

03 June 2010 Movie Sightings

Movie Sightings

A special section of the Moleskine website collects all your sightings. It's not product placement, it's just the propmen favourite choice.

03 June 2010 Book A4: plain, ruled or squared?

Book A4: plain, ruled or squared?

The Folio Book A4 offers a generous space to be filled with notes, projects, and writings. Available in three versions: plain, ruled or squared

26 May 2010 Foodista: the winner

Foodista: the winner

Foodista Blog has announced the winner of Moleskine Passed Down Recipes Contest: Nancy White with her young son's story about his great-grandmother's handmade ravioli

20 May 2010 Around the world in 22 writers

Around the world in 22 writers

Twenty-two authors from 16 countries, four days of sharing and comparing different cultures, ideas, ways of thinking. From May 19-22, join the Venice literary festival Incroci di Civiltà

20 May 2010 New Indigo Special Edition

New Indigo Special Edition

Three limited edition collections - cahiers, large notebooks and A4 notebooks - have been created for Indigo in 2010.

17 May 2010 New Folio Index

New Folio Index

A generous space for your contacts: the new Folio Index has large ruled A4 pages with laminated alphabetical labels for organizing names and information.

17 May 2010 Moleskine Spec Ads

Moleskine Spec Ads

Amy Nortman, student of the University of North Texas, won a creative competition with a speculative Moleskine campaign

13 May 2010 Moleskine Bus hits Dak'Art

Moleskine Bus hits Dak'Art

The travelling notebook exhibition of myDetour 5x5 gets to the final stop, in Dakar, as an off event of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art. (Illustation by Giorgio Milano, first selected myDetour 5x5)

13 May 2010 Autographed drawings at auction

Autographed drawings at auction

85 autographed drawings by some of the world's leading contemporary designers were auctioned by Sotheby's on Thursday 13 May.

10 May 2010 An Indian Special Edition

An Indian Special Edition

Moleskine® celebrates Indian contemporary literature with a special edition. India is the honorary guest country of Turin Book Fair, from May 13th to May 17th.

05 May 2010 A Journey to Dakar

A Journey to Dakar

The last stop of the myDetour5X5 travelling exhibition has reached now the final destination: Dakar. It all started in 2009, in Italy: 5 cities, 5 decorated notebooks selected in each city to be showcased in the next stop.

03 May 2010 New Moleskine® Folio Binder Set

New Moleskine® Folio Binder Set

Documents can be filed in the new Folio Binder A4: with rings, expandable inner pocket and elastic band for secure closure.

03 May 2010 Moleskine Mini Stickers

Moleskine Mini Stickers

The mini-stickers inside the inner pocket can be used to organize, divide, mark or just decorate.

26 April 2010 Passions to share

Passions to share

A photo wall dedicated to your own Passions. A guided tour to discover the new collection of Passion Journals.

26 April 2010 Public space reinvented

Public space reinvented

Moleskine® distributed a special edition Large Japanese Album to the urban designers of the Public Design Festival, so that they could document their vision of Milan during the Salone del Mobile.

19 April 2010 Moleskine® at Webby Awards 2010

Moleskine® at Webby Awards 2010

Moleskine.com is in the Official Honoree Selection at Webby Awards 2010. We are happy to share the news with all Moleskine lovers.

19 April 2010 The Hand of the Designer

The Hand of the Designer

The Italian National Trust and Moleskine present "The Hand of the Designer",a book and an exhibition with 450 original sketches

15 April 2010 Moleskine Print Paper

Moleskine Print Paper

Important documents and letters can now be printed on Moleskine® A4 papers

13 April 2010 Celebrating Urban Design on a Japanese Album

Celebrating Urban Design on a Japanese Album

Moleskine created a new limited edition Japanese Album for the Public Design Festival in Milan.

30 March 2010 Film Director Collection: Jia Zhangke.

Film Director Collection: Jia Zhangke.

Jia Zhangke has emerged as the leading figure of the Chinese Sixth Generation film movement. MoMA celebrates him with a retrospective and a special edition Moleskine notebook.

25 March 2010 Creativity in the office: Folio Professional.

Creativity in the office: Folio Professional.

A video with a special soundtrack introduces a new Moleskine® collection dedicated to the office environment: Folio Professional.

25 March 2010 How to pronounce the name

How to pronounce the name "Moleskine"?

Many Moleskine users send us enquiries as to which is the correct way of pronouncing the word "Moleskine". The answer is: there is no predetermined answer.

22 March 2010 Moleskine Asia Passions exhibition

Moleskine Asia Passions exhibition

Over 150 talents in Asia share the loves of their life and reveal their own creativity. The Passions notebooks created by the participants are showcased in over 60 locations in 12 Asian cities.

18 March 2010 Wellness Journal: the video

Wellness Journal: the video

Everyone knows what makes them feel better, which things to do and those to avoid: to have your personal trainer always with you there's the new Wellness Journal.

17 March 2010 Tim Burton Contest: the jury's choice

Tim Burton Contest: the jury's choice

Eccentric red queens, lunar Jack Skellingtons, gloomy Edward Scissorhands: many people joined Moleskine's Tim Burton contest on Facebook.

17 March 2010 A larger size to extend your creativity

A larger size to extend your creativity

More space to extend your creativity: Music Notebook, Storyboard and Japanese Album now also in large size (5" x 8 ¼" inches -13 x 21 cm)

11 March 2010 Recipes to preserve

Recipes to preserve

Moleskine® and Foodista introduce a new contest dedicated to recipes passed down from your loved ones. Connected to the contest, an open discussion about all the different methods people use to collect cooking tips.

11 March 2010 Quality Control Stickers

Quality Control Stickers

In new collections, every item has an identification number in the back pocket. Keep it safe.

08 March 2010 Bruce Chatwin's Notebooks

Bruce Chatwin's Notebooks

In an interview, filmed during the Premio Chatwin, Elisabeth Chanler, wife of Bruce Chatwin, describes the special relation that bound together her husband with his notebooks.

08 March 2010 Large Horizontal Spaces

Large Horizontal Spaces

For those who enjoy following their inspiration sequence, the Japanese Album has now a new format.

04 March 2010 Film Journal: the video

Film Journal: the video

A video introduces the new Film Journal, dedicated to movie lovers.

01 March 2010 Moleskine® speaks Chinese

Moleskine® speaks Chinese

Moleskine.com is now available also in traditional Chinese. To celebrate, Moleskine Passions Chinese templates, to be filled on line, are now available in the MSK section of the site.

01 March 2010 A Soft Cover for Reporters

A Soft Cover for Reporters

For those who love the reporter notebook, a new release: the soft cover.

22 February 2010 Share Moleskine®

Share Moleskine®

Finding and sharing information is easy: choose the icon and send the news of moleskine.com to your social network.

22 February 2010 Wine Journal: the Video

Wine Journal: the Video

A video introduces the Wine Journal, the new notebook dedicated to wine lovers.

18 February 2010 Music Notebook Large

Music Notebook Large

Musicians, sound designers and song writers: the Music Notebook Large is ideal for people who express themselves through notes.

18 February 2010 Music Journal: the Video

Music Journal: the Video

A video introduces the Moleskine Music Journal and its tools to arrange your everyday soundtrack

16 February 2010 One year of Moleskinerie Japan

One year of Moleskinerie Japan

Moleskinerie Japan, the meeting point for Japanese Moleskine lovers, is now one year old. To celebrate this anniversary, the Japanese layouts of the new Passions collection have now been made available for downloading on moleskine.com, in the MSK section.

15 February 2010 Storyboard Large

Storyboard Large

Illustrators, cartoonists, directors: for those who enjoy creating through images there is the new Storyboard Large notebook.

11 February 2010 Share Moleskine®

Share Moleskine®

Share your favourite Moleskine news on social networks.

11 February 2010 Book Journal: the video

Book Journal: the video

A video describe the new Book Journal and its tools: a customized bookmark, icons, alphabetically organized sections to fill in

08 February 2010 SFMOMA Limited Edition

SFMOMA Limited Edition

Powered by the idea that art can transform lives, SFMOMA is an organization committed to exploring new ways of thinking about museum practice. Two SFMOMA limited edition notebooks are available at the museum store

08 February 2010 Delicious: Moleskine® on line review

Delicious: Moleskine® on line review

Blogs, web magazines, stories: a new page of the website tracks all the links talking about Moleskine®.

05 February 2010 Test the New Passions Collection

Test the New Passions Collection

In the MSK/myMoleskine area you can donwload and test the page layouts of the Passions Journals.

01 February 2010 Recipe Journal: the video

Recipe Journal: the video

Notes, ideas, clippings, reviews, prints from the web: everything can be now gathered in the new Recipe Journal, the notebook dedicated to passionate cooks.

01 February 2010 Tim Burton's creatures at MoMA

Tim Burton's creatures at MoMA

Puppets, drawings, paintings, photographs, storyboards, costumes and screenings: MoMA celebrates Tim Burton with more than seven hundred works.

28 January 2010 Pipes and Banderoles

Pipes and Banderoles

Yellow pipes for electrical ducts, red for lifts and escalators, green for water, blue for air. These are the colors used for the Centre Pompidou Special Edition banderoles.

28 January 2010 Share this

Share this

To share Moleskine news throughout your social network; just look at the footer of each post and click your favourite icon(s).

21 January 2010 Passions: Journals for the Loves of your Life

Passions: Journals for the Loves of your Life

A new collection of themed notebooks dedicated to Recipes, Wine, Books, Films, Music, Wellness.

15 January 2010 myMoleskine gallery: new sleeves to celebrate 1000 uploads

myMoleskine gallery: new sleeves to celebrate 1000 uploads

myMoleskine gallery has reached more than 1000 uploads. As a tribute to all those who joined it, a new series of illustrated sleeves has been created for downloading.

15 January 2010 0.00 Night: the night's diary

0.00 Night: the night's diary

Images of an oniric, surreal and mysterious New York, in the dark. People from the independent publishing house Zeropuntozerozero asked their friends the same question: What is Night for you?

08 January 2010 Fill the Cup

Fill the Cup

A custom notebook has been created for Fill the Cup, the World Food Programme's initiative to help schools in areas hit by war, civil conflict or natural disaster.

08 January 2010 Desk Calendar: the video

Desk Calendar: the video

A video introduces the Desk Calendar: a planner with detachable pages, to write projects, dates and ideas every day.

04 January 2010 Limited Editions: MoMA Bauhaus 2010

Limited Editions: MoMA Bauhaus 2010

To celebrate the ongoing exhibition "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity", Moleskine® and MoMA have created two new limited editions.