News from the Field: Moleskine MyDetour Update

Moleskine's wildly successful and innovative creative relay is about to hit what we at Field Notes consider to be the current global trend setter in stationery - Tokyo - as the MyDetour exhibition makes a stop in Japan's capital from October 16-November 4.

MyDetour entries from the San Fransisco leg of the creative relay.

Via Moleskinerie and moleskine.com, 5 of Tokyo's hottest designer book and stationery stores will host drop boxes where creative notebook lovers will deposit their decorated Moleskines.

Moleskine notebooks personalised.

To reward their disciples, Moleskine will invite the winner (ie: the most amazing notebook) to myDetour in 2010 and the 10 best books will be in an online gallery.

Geografia Globe - Japanese stationery is in bloom!

So keep myDetour on your radar as the Tokyo entries are sure to amaze.

Rhodia Metallic on display in Tokyo's Orange & Black Boutique.

Tokyo's stationery scene is huge - Rhodia in every high end fashion shop, Moleskine on every corner and niche producers like Geografia producing some ground breaking stuff.

Trends in the Field: Geografia & Delfonics straight from Japan!

Image Courtesy of Voyageur

Whilst we've been bogged down in Melbourne working away, some friendly spies of ours have been having a ball at the Japanese 2009 Stationery Fair.

Whilst there's plenty to see, the two brands we've heard about which we really love are Delfonics and Geografia.

Image Courtesy of Geografia

Delfonics is famous for its colourful pens, notebooks and other imported and locally designed desk accessories and watches and is considered the height of upmarket Japanese Stationery...and we really would love to get our hands on some! It's gorgeously designed and even has a quirky sense of humour!

Image Courtesy of Rakuten

And for anybody who can read Japanese, Delfonics have a super cool blog called Voyageur...I'll admit that i can't read it, but the photography is beautiful.

Image Courtesy of Geografia

Geografia is another Japanese brand who do some really unique and seriously cool map themed stationery. Check them out: designer stationery in Japan is buzzing!

Image Courtesy of Geografia

Drop us a comment with your thoughts about these beautiful Japanese gems or anything else which has caught your eye!