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Restaurant Journal. A very personal dining guide

2012-05-15T14:24:05Z

Moleskine Passions, a video account of the first notebooks in the series

A new notebook to map our dining experiences around the world: a good restaurant; a favorite literary café; where to get the best cocktail; places with late-night delivery. Everything that might be useful in our hometown and beyond.

Restaurant Journal includes an international glossary with culinary destinations, curiosities and traditions. This is followed by subject sections to be filled with information and details on restaurants, cafés, bars, typical dishes and chef's suggestions, and subject pages and blank pages to be customized with comments, drawings, adhesive labels, photos and personal notes.

To try out the page layouts or to download them in your own language, all the templates are available in the myMoleskine section here

Restaurant Journal is part of the Moleskine Passions collection, a series of notebooks dedicated to the passions of life; as of 2012 they number seventeen, also counting the latest notebooks Art, Home Life, Chocolate and Beer. All are available at the Moleskine Store.

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Democratic painting in Berlin

2012-05-03T07:44:51Z

Draftsman's Congress - St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin

Walls of a deconsecrated church transformed into giant blank pages; palettes upon which social themes are discussed using words and drawings. The idea comes from Polish artist Pawel Althamer. Title: Draftsman's Congress. The installation is part of the Seventh Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, dedicated this year to the link between art and politics.

Pencils, 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.

More information on the Berlin Biennale is available here

Draftsman's Congress
Seventh Berlin Biennale
April 27 to July 1,
St Elisabeth Church, Berlin-Mitte
Berlin

Click pens and pencils

2012-04-27T07:46:20Z

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.

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A time capsule for handwriting

2012-04-19T07:35:51Z

Artist Bili Bidjocka with one of the books from Ecriture Infinie

The Eighth Book of Ecriture Infinie is making its second appearance, in Venice, for Incroci di Civilità, a literary festival at the Università Ca' Foscari.

Ecriture Infine/Infinite Writing is an art project that celebrates a 3500-year-old invention: handwriting. Created by Cameroonian artist Bili Bidjocka, it consists of a series of eight volumes that travel the world collecting the marks of handwriting as we know it. Once completed, the volumes are wrapped in a linen cloth, sealed and hidden in a secret place, like a time capsule. Will the people who discover them in thousands of years be able to understand what they mean?

Share your thoughts on handwriting.
For Moleskine, Ecriture Infinie is an opportunity to look at the subject of handwriting with writers, neuroscientists and artists. Bringing together different points of view to try to understand how handwriting is evolving in the digital age. Nowadays, there are certainly many other, increasingly fast ways to write and share thoughts. Perhaps we still enjoy handwriting because of the feeling it gives us: the sensation of running a pen or pencil across the paper, the relaxing motion, the ability to detach for a little while, the personal mark we create. Everyone has his/her own reason. What's yours?

Leave your mark.
Express your thoughts and feelings on handwriting. Upload your handwritten thought and follow the path of the Eighth Book at ecritureinfinie.org

Moleskine, together with the non-profit organization lettera27, is supporting the Eighth Book in its journey around the world.

Ecriture Infinie is an art project curated by Simon Njami.

April 18, 2012
Ecriture Infinie @ Incroci di Civiltà
Università Ca' Foscari
Venice

]]> 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.

Ever Tried Analog SMS Texting?

2012-04-13T09:26:11Z

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 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

The Moleskine Orchestra

2012-04-13T09:15:20Z

The Moleskine design objects have been hacked and morphed into musical instruments. Pens are clappers, notebooks are bellows, e-reader cases are drums, glasses, pens, booklights and erasers, all used as structural components of these Moleskine musical machines.

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

Moleskine backpack, now also in a small version

2012-04-12T07:47:02Z

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.

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African Tales in Lagos, Nigeria

2012-04-04T11:19:22Z

Moleskine dedicates a special edition notebook to the Lagos Black Heritage Festival, directed by literature Nobelist Wole Soyinka. The setting is Lagos, 11 million inhabitants, the heart of Nigeria and Africa's largest and most modern metropolis. The event comprises a multidisciplinary exploration of the African diaspora through theatre, masquerades, visual arts, music, symposia, poetry slams, and films.

This year the Festival will be held at Freedom Pÿk, the former Broad Street Prison, a notorious symbol of slavery and oppression, now converted into a space open to the public.

In homage to the Festival, Moleskine has created a special edition which will be given as a gift to the artists and guests in Lagos, including the poets of the "Coffee-Table Collection", Nigerian filmmakers whose works will be shown, and exhibiting photographers.

Each year the Festival focuses on a specific region of the world. The choice this year is the Mediterranean, and Italy in particular, with a series titled "Black Mediterranean: Afro-Italian Narratives". Among the eminent writers and international scholars who will be present are Nuruddin Farah, Ubax Cristina Ali-Farah, Claudio Gorlier, professor emeritus at the University of Turin, and Armando Pajalich, poet and professor at the University of Venice "Ca' Foscari".

Lagos Black Heritage Festival
April 2-9
Freedom Park, Broad Street,
Lagos Island, Nigeria.

Lead that doesn't break

2012-03-30T08:12:36Z

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.

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Special editions: Hong Kong Film Festival

2012-03-28T08:27:13Z

Moleskine is participating in the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), the most highly anticipated film event in Asia and one of the most important worldwide. The guest of honor at this 36th edition of the festival is director and producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan.

This year the festival is dedicating a review and a one-man exhibit to him at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. In addition to screenings, meetings and seminars, one of the director's original notebooks will also be on exhibit. The notebook will be displayed inside a case; wearing special cotton gloves, visitors will be able to leaf through the notebook and follow the artist's creative process as it develops, through sketches and drawings, page after page. The notebook will become part of the Detour archive and will journey to destinations around the world as part of the Moleskine traveling project.

As a tribute to the festival, Moleskine has created a special edition, with proceeds going to the HKIFF for the promotion of cinematic and cultural projects. A new installment in the long series of initiatives and special editions that Moleskine has dedicated to the world of cinema and its major figures, involving directors such as Tim Burton, Mike Figgis, Spike Jonze and Jia Zhangke, and participating in festivals such as those in Tribeca, Locarno, Berlin and Venice.

Peter Chan Face to Face
Hong Kong Cultural Centre Grand Theatre
3 Apr 2012 - 2:30pm

Peter Chan Exhibition
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
27 Mar 2012 - 5 Apr 2012

Moleskine on Pinterest

2012-03-23T15:34:13Z

Moleskine finally meets Pinterest, the popular photo-sharing social network.
Discover the official Moleskine page here and the boards that we already created.

Moreover, the myMoleskine board is open to all our fans and passionates to share drawings, paintings and doodles on Moleskine notebooks. Find out how to participate with your own contribution here.

Art Journal. Art that leaves its mark

2012-03-23T13:19:50Z

Moleskine Passions, the video account of the first notebooks in the series

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.

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The joy of university notes

2012-03-21T15:07:21Z

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

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Restaurant Journal Templates

2012-03-20T15:56:19Z

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.

Messages: the new MSK templates

2012-03-13T10:31:46Z

Download, print and cut out the Messages templates, created specifically to personalize the new postal notebooks.

With the PaperCity and PaperMessage pop-ups you can add depth and perspective to the card pages.

With the PaperSkin templates you can choose from 5 different envelope decorations: Happening, Feed, Gift, Power and Idea.

All the templates are available in Pocket and Large formats.

The Messages templates are available in the myMoleskine section here

Paper Message Paper Skin - Gift

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