Once again, our friend Mike Rhode has provided a 34 pages of fantastic sketchnotes from SEED3. If you're not familiar with Mike's sketchnotes, this is something I look forward to whenever I hear he's going to a conference. A unique window to the action if you will.
I think It's been about three years now since I was first introduced to Moleskine notebooks. If I remember correctly, it was about the same time I adopted GTD and was reading 43 Folders regularly. They are sexy little notebooks available in a number of styles for writers and artists alike. Personally, I use the Moleskine ruled notebook for client notes and the Moleskine sketchbook for the obvious - sketches.
Personally, I think the plain black cover is perfect the way it is. However, engraveyourbook.com is offering engraving services for Moleskines. You can have the cover and spine engraved to your liking with either Helvetica or use an uploaded image.
If you are endowed with artistic ability, you can submit up to three images for consideration to be used as stock designs for the covers. Currently they have four stock designs available. I'm sure that will expand rapidly. In my opinion this is a cool idea. I doubt I would order one with a cover engraving but the spine would come in handy. And Helvetica is just as sexy as the Moleskine notebooks.
Phineas X. Jones at 37signals has an excellent post sharing his Cehalopod watercolor paintings. A very talented artist indeed.
It is no secret that I have a long-standing interest in cephalopods and watercolors. So of late I’ve been combining the two in a series of of postcards based on actual species documented in Cephalopods: A World Guide. For the purposes of this post I documented some of the stages of painting the maori octopus displayed at left. I’ll try not to get all Joy of Painting about it.It’s important to keep in mind that the style of watercolor I do would be described by anyone actually trained in classical watercolor techniques as ‘completely wrong.’ I never studied anything or took a class on technique. I just wing it. Anyway…
(Via Signal vs. Noise.)
