Moleskines

Over the past year I’ve noticed that students in my letterpress classes invariably show up with the same small pocket-sized black notebooks. Some have been elaborately decorated on the covers. “Moleskine makes them,” one of my students told me. I noticed lots of people on Etsy selling them with artwork on the covers — usually Gocco printed. Moleskine encourages people to share the artwork in and on their products — the website has a section on an art show of work using Moleskines.
I bought one and they are really handy. Well made, they fit in my purse, have 64 pages (with the last 16 sheets perforated and detachable!) and the inside of the back cover has a bonus pocket for notes or clippings. I also tried printing a wood type collage on the cover (see photo above — I have them for sale on my website here.
But some of the best covers have been laser engraved (probably using the same sort of machine I used to cut out my recent pop-up book — the laser cutter can also engrave on glass and acrylic and thick paper). Below are two covers done by Modofly. They are bigger than the small pocket ones I’ve got. For more covers, see this flicker pool or this Etsy search.