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!

News from the Field: NoteMaker 2009 Design Competition Winner!

Winning Design by Grace Lee

Our friends at NoteMaker have finally announced the winner of their 2009 Annual Design Competition (above) featuring the Moleskine 2009 2010 18 Month Diary! The limited edition of the winning design is now available to purchase, we're told, from NoteMaker and will ship from early next week onwards. So go and celebrate local design!

Shortlisted Design by Elyse King

This is definitely a great chance for Moleskiners (SkineArt, anyone?) and fans of grass roots Aussie design (like the guys at Grafik Museum) to get a really unique version of a stationery icon.

Shortlisted Design by Brentt Grigson

We really love the winning design ourselves: the real sketchy feel of it, like a page straight out of anyone's diary who's relying on their diary to juggle their life!

Shortlisted Design by Kristal Yeung

So well done to the winner - Grace Lee - and everyone who entered. The guys at NoteMaker have sent over a few of their favourite entries and there's a FlickR gallery as well of some of the shortlisted entries, so check it out!

Shortlisted Design by Cathryn Ruhle

Field Notes Icons: Moleskine - Our Top Five

So we've decided, our fellow stationery friends, that since we all love our Moleskine diaries, journals and notepads enough to dedicate hours to decoration, embellishment and blogging about them we should do a Moleskine Top 5!

As such we have compiled our current Top Five of Moleskine features online... here we go!

Gaping Void's Advertising Moleskine

1. Gaping Voids Advertising Moleskine - Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void Blog was commissioned by Dave Whittle, an Aussie advertiser to create the above art work drawn on the pages of a Moleskine.

We love the message:

"If you talked to people

the way advertising

talked to people

they'd punch you in the face"

Maybe a bit too true.....

Flying animal skineart via Frankie via Skineart

2. Frankie loves Skineart too!

So our regular Field Notes Blog readers know that we love Skineart but how excited are we that our favourite magazine Frankie loves them as much as we do! Louise over at Frankie features her favourite Skineart and Louise we agree.....it is a great portal for artists and doodlers just like us!

Hickory Dickory Dock via Peter Van Allen on Flickr

3. For a real art hit you can also visit our favourite tag on Flickr 'moleskine'. This is truly an overload of indulgent design and art from other Moleskine lovers. You should upload your own! We love Hickory Dickory Dock from Peter Van Allen's profile this week.

Lobster Legs via Big Window via Moleskine

4. Moleskine Monday! We can't take any of the credit but we do love the idea of Moleskine Monday as seen over at Big Window. What better way to beat 'Mondayitis' than with a regular Moleskine hit. We have now popped this in iCal and will be visiting you every Monday Big Window - thanks.

Polaroid Moleskine Album

5. Cool Polaroid Moleskine Album.... sorry not sure if it is available down under! But we sure do love that Polaroid stripe.

And don't forget to shop the complete range of Moleskine products in Australia including diaries, journals, sketchbooks and city notebooks: visit our friends at NoteMaker..... they have a special offer on much of their Moleskine range and value bundle packs that will save you a packet!

Also if you spend over $59 your order is shipped free of charge within Australia!

Now you can get creating your own Moleskine Top Five!