Balabanoff Baron Fig Confidant Cover
I, like many users of analog writing tools, am a big fan of leather notebooks. Nothing beats the smell, the heft, the tactile sensation, and the air of importan...
Author: Shawn Mihalik
Old Diaries — Danny Gregory
Fascinating video in which Danny Gregory shares some of his favorite old diaries, as well as some of his favorite boring ones. (Via Austen Kleon’s always ...
Gerhard Steidl is Making Books an Art Form — The New Yorker
Gerhard Steidl is Making Books an Art Form — The New Yorker Fascinating profile in the New Yorker last week. The whole thing is worth a read, but here are a few...
The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books — Atlas Obscura
The Strange and Grotesque Doodles in the Margins of Medieval Books — Atlas Obscura “Manuscripts can be seen as time capsules,” says Johanna Green, Lecturer in B...
Why We Use Giant Post-It Notes As Our Publishing Calendar — The Focus Course Blog
Why We Use Giant Post-It Notes As Our Publishing Calendar — The Focus Course Blog With 90% of our working hours spent staring at a screen, we’re always looking ...
The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz
The humble ballpoint pen has become a new symbol of China’s innovation economy — Quartz Fascinating. And there’s some great stuff here about the surprisi...
Day One Now Prints Journals as Bound Books
Day One Now Prints Journals as Bound Books This is cool news for journalers who like a blend of digital and analog. I don’t use Day One much anymore becau...
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life — Paris Review
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life — Paris Review What have survived are two previously unknown letters from Hemingway to Coat...
The hand-painted background scenes of the original Star Wars trilogy — Jason Kottke
The hand-painted background scenes of the original Star Wars trilogy — Jason Kottke Back in the 70s and 80s, before photorealistic computer graphics became comm...
‘Last Jedi’ Trailer Reveals Books and Paper Exist in ‘Star Wars’
‘Last Jedi’ Trailer Reveals Books and Paper Exist in ‘Star Wars’ Another point for books and paper. If they were good enough for the Jed...