i’m a huge fan of writing. some days i prefer to write on my blog, some days i prefer to write lesson plans, html, or notes. some days i prefer to write letters, and sometimes i just like to journal. there’s something about writing…it’s freeing, it’s comforting, it’s relaxing.
while i prefer to type most of the time, other times i just feel the need to write write, like pen and paper write, and when i get into those moods, i latch onto fine stationary (if i’m writing to someone) or i latch onto one of my moleskine notebooks. depending upon what i’m writing i choose one of my 3 moleskines. it’s either my handy dandy pocket version (the thing is always in my back left pocket), my unlined black hardcover notebook, or my soft cover black notebook.
you can check out the history of moleskine if you want, but in if you don’t want to, i’ll give you the short version. they’re handy, acid-free, hand-manufactured notebooks that have been around for more than 2 centuries. they’re just fantastic tools, albeit a little pricey.
while playing on twitter today i came across someone using field notes. checking out their website, i find that they’re really very similar to my pocket moleskine, except these field notes are made from graph paper whereas my moleskine consists of blank pages. anyways, point being, they look like nice little books too, and for about the same price.
while i suppose most people write in their field notes of moleskines, i happened across a link on the field notes page from a professor who provides a field notes book to each of his advanced typography students at the beginning of they year, and collects them later toward the end of the semester and photographs select pages. he’s posted a number of the photos on flickr. take a look at the creativity unleashed in some of these field notes.
