Young Guns, as in the famous western movie. This is the title of the competition established by the Art Directors Club seven years ago, selecting the best portfolios submitted by designers, illustrators, photographers, advertisers and art directors worldwide.

Out of countless entries from 84 countries, 50 creative professionals were chosen to join the ADC Young Guns community. Their works have been published in a full-color illustrated Moleskine book, available at the Art Directors Club Online Store.

Read more at Moleskine.com.

From Moleskine.com:

“Something private as a diary must remain what it is, it should help the heart find its meaning. And it must always be real”.
Italian songwriter Elisa describes her experience with the Epistodiario, the Moleskine notebook which the Festival delle Lettere for the past five years has passed hand from hand of various artists.
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Knack, the news magazine for Dutch-speaking Belgium, introduces to its readers a Moleskine limited edition at Antwerp Book Fair (31/10/09 -11/11/09).

The event also features 2 Folio books from the project Track the Moleskine including the works of 19 Antwerp’s artists.

Source: Moleskine.com

Popular Moleskine notebooks will continue stylin’ in 2010 with added Asian City Notebooks and new product lines

Moleskine®, the Italian company dedicated to the proposition that real notebooks don’t need batteries, is expanding its wildly popular offerings in 2010 with a new range of products.

Supermarket stationery doesn’t come this classy.
— Moleskine distributor Arnault Castel

Moleskine® Passions
Moleskine®’s new line of Passions notebooks is designed to appeal to the pursuits of its users.

The Recipes notebook, for example, includes sections that allow aspiring chefs to copy food and wine pairings. Other Passions notebooks are designed for book, movie, wine, music and wellness buffs. Each has sections for scribbling down everything from bits of trivia to brilliant thoughts.

The 13 x 21cm, gunmetal gray notebooks will be available in March 2010 and retail for about US$25
Moleskine® Portable Office

“We want people to be able to recreate their office environment even at home,” says Arnault Castel, whose Working Unit [...]

Moleskine® releases its first Moleskine® artist cover leather diary with Marti Guixé. Starting in 2010, Moleskine takes a further step to strengthen its alignment with lovers of art and culture by launching the new Artist Cover collection.

The inaugural 2010 edition is designed by acclaimed Spanish designer Marti Guixé, whose works have been exhibited in Moleskine® Detour and in many shows worldwide.

Marti Guixé, a revolutionary Catalonian designer living in Barcelona and Berlin, is very outspoken in his dislike of traditional design. Guixé views design as a platform for questioning, visualising and influencing contemporary human behaviour. In 2001, as a statement against the limited scope of the traditional designer and to open new possibilities for the industry Guixé started the ex-designer movement, defining himself by the same name.

In spite of his critical attitude, Guixé has collaborated with the following brands: Alessi, Camper, Danese, Droog Design, Magis, Vitra, and now Moleskine®.

The Marti Guixé [...]

Lights and shadows, the ones we live and the ones we share with the world.

In a notebook Sean Ford, winner of myDetour San Francisco, tells her life, her friends, the special encounters and her pains, revealing her feelings through short illustrated stories.

Sean’s notebook, together with the others selected by the jury, will be part of Moleskine exhibitions around the world.

Sean Ford is invited to the opening of Detour next edition, in 2010.

See the gallery at Moleskine.com.

A 2010 preview at Frankfurter Buchmesse: The New Moleskine Passions: Journals for the loves of your life.

Moleskine Passions is a collection of six different journals to record and recall memories, thoughts and notes about six different passions: Recipes, Wine, Book, Film, Music and Wellness.

Moleskine lovers can use them to collect information and reviews about books they read, restaurants they visited, concerts they attended, dishes they tasted. And to share these information with others.

Each journal is a personal archive to fill in according to different needs and feelings:

Pages divided by printed tabs, with a themed layout for supporting you in taking notes.
Pages divided by blank tabs, that the user can personalize with the enclosed adhesive labels.
Blank pages for freedom of expression.
Enclosed adhesive labels, with words and icons.
Themed charts, calendars, glossaries, listings.

The black cover, one of the icons of the Moleskine brand, for the fi time in the brand’s history is fully [...]

Fish, turtles, octopuses, crabs: the sea inhabitants seen by someone close to them. Black and white illustrated pages to describe the relationship with Mediterranean sea and the melancholy of being far from it.

Giorgio Milano’s notebook is the winner selected by the jury of myDetour 5×5 among the notebooks generously dropped in the collection box of Naples. All participating notebooks are donated to the non profit Foundation lettera27, supporting the right to literacy and the access to knowledge in developing countries.

The notebooks selected from Naples will be exhibited in Rome from 21 October to 15 November, together with a new drop box for notebook collection. Hosting the Rome opening will be graphic novelist Laura Scarpa, founder of Animals magazine.

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Over 600 people attended the opening event of Detour Tokyo, at MoMA Design Store, on Thursday Ocotber 15, 2009.

You can enjoy images of the opening party here. The 50 notebooks exhibited in Tokyo are now also online. You can flick through the complete collection on the Detour Video Gallery.

The Tokyo exhibition features 23 new Japanese authors, who contributed to the project by donating their illustrated notebooks to the non profit lettera27 Foundation, thus joining the Detour travelling collection.

After wearing special cotton gloves,  visitors of MoMA Design Store could enter a intimately illuminated tunnel and actually touch notebooks, establishing a direct relationship with the authors’ creative process as it unfolds on the pages.

Detour Tokyo comes together with myDetour, the creative relay dedicated to new talents and open to everyone who loves to paint, sketch, write and create freely on the blank pages of Moleskine notebooks.

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Moleskine Cover releases Moletape, an adhesive cloth tape that reinforces the spines of Moleskine® notebooks.
Moletape is an adhesive cloth tape that works to reinforce the spines of Moleskine® notebooks. Over the last month Molecover, has provided a black Moletape along with every order. Recently, we began to experiment with cloth dies and have found a working formula. We hope that the Moleskine® community enjoys these colored Moletapes as much as we did making them!
View more at Moleskine Cover.