What does my home state of Illinois have in common with the Eiffel Tower, the world's first steam engine, and what looks to be a scanned portrait of Henry the Navigator? They're all on the cover of a notebook I saw for sale in our local stationery store, of course. (Sorry about the blurry picture - I know I should've bought the thing...)
Showing posts with label notebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label notebooks. Show all posts
Sunday, May 15, 2011
History Lesson
What does my home state of Illinois have in common with the Eiffel Tower, the world's first steam engine, and what looks to be a scanned portrait of Henry the Navigator? They're all on the cover of a notebook I saw for sale in our local stationery store, of course. (Sorry about the blurry picture - I know I should've bought the thing...)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Best Quality Goods Always Make You Happy
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Easy to do...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Life is FUNNY How much I love you
I require my students to keep class notes and journals, which I review at the end of the semester. Some of the covers, like this one, are quite poetic (intentionally or not...).
(see also my post on Chinglish / bilingual found poetry here.)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Books of Note
A while back, I posted pictures of a few of my Chinese notebooks here, along with the inspirational quotes that grace their covers. A week later, the entry start getting tons and tons of hits from Notebookstories.com, a web site devoted entirely to, you guessed it, notebooks, and people who collect, save, and fill them. Who knew? (Though, given the nature of the internet, not entirely surprising.)
Being as I'm into sketchbooks, notebooks, journaling, cool graphic design, and found poetry, (intentional and otherwise), I've got a few photos of notebooks lying around the archives myself. Sooo - here's wishing everyone a happy Asian notebook week! Or month. Or couple of days. Whatever. Hey, they're notebooks, okay..?
First up: some cool books that I picked up in Thailand, featuring vintage ads on the front and excerpts from old textbooks on the back:
As always, click on the image to enlarge. Enjoy!
Labels:
culture,
education,
internet things,
notebooks,
surrealism appreciation,
symbols
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