All Quo Vadis planners have exceptional paper made in France by Clairefontaine. But some of our planners have extra-special paper. These are our Prestige planners. The following planners have our Registre Azur paper, which is very subtly tinted to be easy on the eyes. The Space 24 planner has the week’s schedule on the left […]
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Writing Wednesday: Fountain pen friendly planners and notebooks
Since this Friday is Fountain Pen Day, I wanted to dedicate this Writing Wednesday to planners and notebooks that you can use with your favorite fountain pens! As you probably know, the Clairefontaine paper used in Quo Vadis planners and notebooks is designed to be super-smooth and joyful to write on. Clairefontaine papers come in […]
What’s your favorite paper product?
Paper’s best for books and notebooks, but there are plenty of other uses: cups, bags, and even countertops. I have cutting boards made from pressed paper (they are wonderfully compact), but the paper product I love most these days are the plain brown paper coffee sleeves you find in cafes. Not because I do much […]
Presidents and pens
The New York Times magazine ran a great story this weekend about papermaker Timothy Barrett, whose hand-crafted pages have been used to mend historical documents from manuscripts to musical scores. There’s lots to think about here, but first and foremost: Barrett’s work has been driven by the notion that good materials, worked by hand, transmit […]
LiveScribe your planners and notebooks
I first encountered Livescribe — the nifty digital pen-recorder that, via a special sort of paper, enables you to take notes and record things at the same time, then replay certain snippets by tapping on specific words — a few years ago. (If you used it during class and tapped your “test Friday” note, for […]
Jitesh Patel’s paper art
From my French counterpart, Murielle, comes this post about Jitesh Patel, an amazing London-based paper artist — sculptor, I might say. As Murielle explains: Jitesh Patel founded his studio in London in 2007. The artist works on paper in the form of multifaceted 3D creations and with a resolutely graphical style. A feast for the […]
A paper review smorgasbord
From Pens and Paper, the site of a UK based organization (or organisation, I suppose) that teaches composition and handwriting and blogs about the life creative, comes this phenomenally comprehensive review of twelve different notebook papers — from the Habana to the Webnotebook and Moleskine, Leuchtturm 1917, and many others. Each review is written with […]
What makes our paper so smooth?
The Clairefontaine paper we use in our planners and notebooks is noted for its smoothness, and we recently fielded a comment from Tom about what, exactly, makes it that way. I’d heard about the “velin velouté” finish, but I didn’t know much about how it was actually produced. Fortunately, Karen soon clued me in: calcium […]
Do you use an ink blotter?
Sometimes, when a piece of paper doesn’t absorb all the ink you try to lay down, that doesn’t mean it’s not fountain pen friendly. The paper in our Journal 21, for example, is modeled after old ledger paper. The goal is to be thin and strong, with no feathering or bleed through. Frustrated by how […]
Concrete and cream: Habana pics
As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not happy with the images we have for the ivory Habanas, so I figured I’d post a few of my own. In my opinion, the color is more cream-like than ivory, and very unobtrusive. I’m hoping that comes through in the admittedly imperfect photos I took on my deck the […]
