Moleskine Bus Hits Dak’Art

The travelling notebook exhibition of myDetour 5×5 gets to the final stop, in Dakar, as an off event of the Biennale of Contemporary African Art.
The 25 decorated notebooks are showcased on a car rapide, a mini bus very common in the streets of Dakar. Every day the car rapide is doing “opening hopping” through the [...]

Sean Ford Wins myDetour San Francisco

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 [...]

From Naples to Rome. A new stop for myDetour 5×5

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 [...]

Detour Tokyo Exhibition. The Opening.

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 [...]

Detour Tokyo

From 16 October to 4 November Detour, Moleskine travelling exhibition, will be at the MoMA Design Store of Omotesando, Tokyo.
All Detour Tokyo authors donated their notebooks to the non profit Foundation lettera 27 whose mission is to support the right to literacy, education and the access to knowledge in developing countries.
Fifty notebooks will be displayed [...]

Moleskine® Detour Arrives in Tokyo

From eTravelBlackboardAsia.com:
Detour is a Moleskine traveling group show dedicated to culture and creativity worldwide that features internationally recognised artists, architects, film directors, graphic designers, illustrators and writers.
They can present their creative personalities through the Moleskine notebooks they create. Past shows included notebooks by Christian Lacroix, Karim Rashid, Terence Conran, Spike Jonze, Lou Reed and Sigur [...]

myDetour in Tokyo

After the latest stop in San Francisco (10 Sept - 1 Oct), the Moleskine creative relay is fast approaching the city of Tokyo, from October 16th to November 4th.
In each of the 5 partner centrally located design stores and bookshops (Cibone Aoyama, Aoyama Book Center, Spiral Records, Nadiff, Tsutaya), a drop box will be installed [...]

Milan Goes to Osaka

From Moleskine.com:

Walking through the streets of Milan in search of stories, characters and fresh perspectives to report on their Milano City notebooks. In 2008 a group of international new talents from Austria, China, India and Singapore selected from Domus Academy, worldwide famous school of art and design, explored the street of of Milan, host city [...]

Africa goes to Mantua Festivaletteratura

Who are, what do they write, in what language express themselves African immigrants and writers of Europe / in Europe?
The Foundation Lettera27, supported by Moleskine with Detour and myDetour projects, participated in Festivaletteratura Saturday 12 and Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at the Episcopal Seminary with three meetings on the knowledges of Africa on the Move: [...]

Notebooks from Naples. myDetour 5×5 at the fourth leg.

The creative relay of myDetour 5×5 gets in Naples, with an exhibition of illustrated notebooks selected form the previous cities and a drop box for collecting new contributions from the creative community of Naples, at la Feltrineli bookshop in via S.Caterina a Chiaia.
The myDetour 5×5 project is dedicated to all moleskiners who love to paint, [...]