Trends in the Field: Bloc Art

Gentian's Rhodia pad.

Following on from yesterday's post about Moleskine's myDetour exhibition, all about your Moleskine, your notebook and personalising an icon, Field Notes received a couple of emails just reminding us that there are plenty of other legends one can make their own.

BiffyBeans Rhodia Pad 8 Cover

Specifically, the Rhodia pad. The top stapled format is great for animated flicker art, especially the smaller pad 11 and 12. But even better is the cover itself!

eeShaun's personalised Rhodia cover.

The Moleskine's cover is great - durable, classy, quality. But there's not a whole heap to work with unless you go so your local embosser. The Rhodia Bloc pads, on the other hand, are perfect for making them your own.

Mitch from Flickr's Pad cover.

If you need some inspiration, see below or any of the following great blogs and pages. There's Rhodia Drive, eeShaun's cool design, heaps on Flickr, like Gentian's cover, Granny Kaas, Mitch, and of course there's Biffy Beans too.

Paul Smith's Rhodia pad designs. via OhJoy

In fact, it's so easy, so perfect, Rhodia sanctions the act. As we know, they're letting designer Paul Smith have free reign (I love the photographer above) over their pads and we can't wait for the results! We'd love to see any personlised Rhodia pads out there from the Field so get sharing Rhodia fans!

Trends in the Field: The designers are catching on!

It's almost a weekly occurrence now. A new store - whether a newsagent, a bookshop or a gift store - seems to pop up as a proud new stockist of Rhodia! The visual equivalent of music to our ears!


Especially when it's this good visually! Boffins bookshop has been reported to us from a happy WA reader (thanks Lou) as the newest - and quite possibly proudest - book shop to catch a case of Rhodia Love.


Indeed, Lou was so happy - and why wouldn't he be, after all, Boffins is technical bookshop - he sent us some photos of the great Boffins display. The iconic Rhodia pad is now sure to make the architect and designer Boffins following swoon.


The aptly named Boffins first opened its doors in Perth's CBD in 1989, and since then has grown to become the leading technical bookshop in Western Australia. So check it out (we love! the posters) if you're in Perth. If not, and you got a case of Bloc fever, then NoteMaker has just the prescription for you.