[intense_button font_color=”#ffffff” hover_color=”#ff0000″ hover_font_color=”#000000″ size=”medium” link=”http://www.fastcodesign.com/3056991/16-famous-designers-show-us-their-favorite-notebooks/17″ target=”_blank” title=”FastCompany.com”]16 Famous Designers Show Us Their Favorite Notebooks [/intense_button]
Fast Company is the shit. Although their new website design is shit, the brand and its content is the shit. It’s always about the little things. Always.
As a creative professional, you are always thinking and feeling about your process. Nothing is as intimate as how you do what you do, and whether you are a singer, writer, designer, artist, or whatever, there is a good chance you insist on living analog and having a notebook. There is nothing as intimate as a pen or pencil kissing paper. Fuck. Fuck typing and touchscreens. When you are seeding or incubating a nugget of an a gem of an idea, nothing can get in your way and you need to make the process as organic as possible. That notebook you move with at all times is not only the key to life, but the seed of your labor. It is your Holy Grail. The prospects of having someone take a peek inside your book is more terrifying than a full body cavity search by a herd of cockroaches covered in tar.
I’ve had panic attacks with the thought that I’ve lost my Moleskine. Yeah… I’m a Moleskine man. I don’t recall when I became a loyalist, but once I found out that Ernest Hemingway only fucked with Moleskine, that was more than enough to sell me on the brand. Moleskines and Microns. That’s how I do. Those are my hammer and nails and the thought of veering elsewhere is as sickening as ridiculous.
It’s always interesting to peek at other creatives and see their process. We are so focused on our curtain and creative space, we rarely take a look at our neighbors’. Shout-out to Fast Company for the brilliant idea. Makes me appreciate my Unabomber / Se7en notebooks even more.
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