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Build­ing on my recent talk of sketch­books and orga­ni­za­tional sys­tems, now seems like an appro­pri­ate time to share a series which out­lines a week in the lives of thir­teen artists, design­ers and thinkers. Orga­nized by I.D. Mag­a­zine to demon­strate the ver­sa­til­ity of Moleskine’s new folio col­lec­tion of sketch­books, the series was exhib­ited this past April dur­ing the 2009 Milan Design Week.

Here are a few of the sketch­books from the series:


Designer/illustrator, Mar­ian Bantjes


Fash­ion designer, Han Feng


Graphic designer and author, Jes­sica Helfand


Indus­trial Designer, Ayse Birsel

What would a week in your life look like, dear readers?

As with any new sketch­book, I find myself suf­fer­ing from “blank page syn­drome” — too much white space, an ironic prob­lem for a designer, really.

The con­cept behind this site was to cre­ate a sort of “dynamic sketch­book” (dynamic as in evolv­ing, and updated-able) to use for both writ­ing and artis­tic exper­i­ments; shar­ing thoughts on pub­li­ca­tions, exper­i­men­tal inde­pen­dent projects, and per­haps some­times the work I under­take dur­ing busi­ness hours. The bot­tom line is, this is an evo­lu­tion­ary site.

Stay Tuned…