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This is the season when we celebrate the harvest. My friends in the US just celebrated Thanksgiving – a holiday which is also celebrated in Canada, though in October. Of course, many countries and regions have their own versions of harvest festivals. A fond childhood memory for me was the annual fall trip to Royal [...] Doing some fall cleaning, I found a dozen Clairefontaine A4 notebooks from student days in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The notebooks strongly resemble the current offerings, and have held up very well over time. Good job, Clairefontaine! An unexpected local find, the Düller Memo Pad. An elongated notepad, the paper features a dotted grid. The cover is a very nice forest green. Shown here with a Düller Dietrich Lubs fountain pen: The globe is shrinking – recently found locally (Ontario, Canada) – Midori notebooks. Plain and simple, yet high quality. Nicely finished. No visible cutting or processing artifacts or residue. Relatively expensive, but their reputation preceded them. The Midori paper loves graphite, and graphite loves this paper! Isometric graph paper is still manufactured and sold in 2011, and has become an expensive specialty item. I recall seeing engineering notebooks from decades ago that had isometric patterns, often facing a ruled or blank page. The tasks that require isometric graph paper (along with polar graph paper) long ago transitioned to computer software. So, [...] Who enjoys using a large piece of paper? On the forefront of the photo is a Miquelrius “Grid-It!” series notepad in “The Guardian” design. Each sheet of paper shows a 1988 newspaper layout design by David Hillman. It is the layout for a sheet of newspaper. At 375mm x 600mm, each sheet is 0.225 square [...] |
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