Pens, not pixels -- Moleskine notebooks make hard copy cool and gift-buying easy
Your world is in these books -- or soon will be
Moleskine, the Italian company dedicated to the propositon that real notebooks don't need batteries, is expanding its wildly popular offerings in 2010 with a new range of products.
Moleskine Passions
Moleskine's new line of Passions notebooks is designed to appeal to the pursuits of its users.
The Recipes notebook, for example, includes sections that allow aspiring chefs to copy food and wine pairings. Other Passions notebooks are designed for book, movie, wine, music and wellness buffs. Each has sections for scribbling down everything from bits of trivia to brilliant thoughts.
The 13 x 21cm, gunmetal gray notebooks will be available in March 2010 and retail for about US$25
Moleskine Portable Office
“We want people to be able to recreate their office environment even at home,” says Arnault Castel, whose Working Unit Ltd. is the sole distributor of Moleskine in Asia.
The new Portable Office line includes ring binders, pocket cards and printable A4 paper, all done up in black-and-ivory Moleskine style. Not exactly groundbreaking, but as Castel says: “Supermarket stationery doesn’t come this classy."
The Portable Office line will be available in the latter half of 2010 and retail for TK.
Asian City Notebooks
Billed as "the first guidebook you write yourself," Moleskine City Notebooks are little black books with travel maps, space for the names of hotels, restaurants and other tourist attractions, tracing paper and room to record thoughts and observations. The current Asia line, covering "the 4 major Asiatic cities" of Tokyo, Kyoto, Beijing and Hong Kong, will include Shanghai and Singapore notebooks in 2010. Asian City Notebooks retail for about US$18.
Use the Moleskine store locator to find Moleskine products in your area: Store Locator
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