Showing posts with label notebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label notebooks. Show all posts

Sunday, May 15, 2011

History Lesson

HISTORY 1989.  The Eiffel Tower is significantsymbol.  French

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...)

Monday, April 18, 2011

The Best Quality Goods Always Make You Happy

Yep, again with the notebooks...

Hotrock Notebook Progress Notebook

Also:

- Learn extensively, inquire thoroughly, ponder prudently, discriminate cleanly and practice devotedly.

- The more high more dangerous.
The more wonderful.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Easy to do...

EASY TO Lose the Happiness WithOUT

Another student notebook. I'm particularly fond of the international signage couples gracing the bottom...

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Life is FUNNY How much I love you

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

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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:

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As always, click on the image to enlarge. Enjoy!