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Your penmanship is probably lacking exercise, so think about sending one of these postcards to a friend or loved one to make their day. The flat-packed pieces create either a heart, bird, or pig, so they’ll get your note plus a visible trinket to remember your message by.

Designed by Anne Paso of Finland.

Pack includes directions for assembly.

I swear by my graph paper composition notebooks for all my sketches, brainstorming and notetaking. I must admit that I think I’m ready for a change after seeing Behance’s Dot Grid Book.

Favored by free-thinking graphic designers among other creative professionals, Behance’s Dot Grid was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches. The Dot Grid Book’s cover is a unique suede-to-the-touch hard cover. The pages are made of 80lb Premium Blend paper with a subtle texture (30% post-consumer recycled), double perforated, and three-hole punched between both perforations for maximum flexibility.

COVERS: Semi-Hard Suede-touch Cover
SIZE: 9″ x 10.5″
PAPER: 80lb Premium Blend
PAGES: 50
BINDING: Double spiral (black)

Oh, what will we ever do without Polaroids? You do know you can get a Special Edition Polaroid One 600 Classic Camera* at UO don’t you? If you don’t feel like spending 180 smackers, you can use these notecards to relive the magic.

These Polaroid-inspired notecards are
made to look like the real thing! Using
dreamy Polaroid images, the set comes
with 20 different notecards and includes
envelopes. Each is truly beautiful! Made
by Chronicle Books.

Box is 4.5”x 5.5”

$14.95, Buy it here. or here.

*see The Impossible Project for more info.

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There’s no messin’ around with these tags; you can get your message across without any misunderstandings.
(For those of you that are offended by the ‘f’ word, I’ve photoshopped in asterisks, but please keep in mind that the actual tags are the full-on ‘f’ bomb.)

clearly defined labels designed to make either your wishes or thoughts on serious issues well known. five mini pads of sticky notes to draw attention to urgent requirements. use them as book marks and highlighters in magazines, mail-order catalogues, computer screens. unsubtle hints for the hopeful or disgruntled!

100 re-positionable notes.
package dimensions: 6.3″ x 2.8″

$6.00, Buy it here.

Ah, postcards, remember them? Does anyone send them anymore*? I’ll be the first to admit I don’t, but I might start with these old-fashioned telegram cards. I’m also liking the lovely scrolly Forget Me Not Pad (shown on right); it has me itching to pull out my fountain pen and meticulously note my daily to-dos.

Telegram Postcards: 4 for $6.75, Buy it here.
Forget Me Not Pad: $5.25, Buy it here.

*if you do, you get 50 points for awesome-ness

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Made from actual records and sleeves, these notebooks will keep your thoughts and lists at hand while showing off your love for old school LP albums.

LP Jacket Ruled Notebook, $14.00,
Buy it here.
LP Record Hardcover Ruled Notebook, $30.00, Buy it here.

Here’s a few delightful cards for that old fashioned way of keeping in touch.

‘Hi’ by Lucas & Hayley, 12 cards, £6.50, Buy it here.
‘You’ Series by Lucas & Hayley, Set of 3, £6.50, Buy it here.

If you know anyone with a fondness for the stacks, this might be the perfect little card to wish them a happy birthday.

Stamped library card in sleeve, mounted onto a blue card which measures 4.25″ x 5.5″.

$5.00, Buy it here.

Expletive! I almost hyperventilated when I saw this. I’m not kidding. New York backdrops for your graffiti sketches or notes…truly one of the best notebook ideas ever. (Now all you Banksy wannabes can have your thrill any time you want.)

Walls Notebook is a notebook / sketchbook with 80 “clean” New York City walls as your blank slate. Write, draw, paste, or doodle on these interesting and inspirational backdrops. You’ll be one step closer to being the graffiti artist you’ve always wanted to be . . . minus the jail time.

H 8.5″ x W 6.625″ / 160 pages

$16.95, Buy it here.

One of these cards is sure to adequately convey just how grateful you are.

Three different thank you cards depending on how much you want to thank the recipient. Uses a custom typeface Ziroli that has multiple glyphs, making it possible to adjust line widths and the personality of each card. Printed letterpress on polymer plate. Crane’s 100% cotton paper and envelopes. Magenta/Red ink. DWRI Letterpress, 2007

You’ll get one of each card and three envelopes.
$10 .00, Buy it here.

I love this so much. I think it would be such an excellent gift for a newborn, though it might be a little heavy (not weight-wise, although there is that, I mean more like possible awkwardness if the new parents couldn’t quite grasp the coolness of getting a huge empty somber-looking book for their baby…I guess you’ll have to be selective). It’d probably be a good gift for anyone that likes keeping track of life events the old-fashioned way.

$65.00, Buy it here.

Digitize your message in a personal way…(doesn’t sound possible, but with this card it is).

These clever cards find a happy (paper) medium with their do-it-yourself LCD text-sytem. Each one features a familiar star-field of 8 characters x 2 lines. Re-live the glory days of 80’s calculators and clocks!…Each card is debossed on 100% acid-free recycled paper by SF based Yellow Owl Workshop and comes packaged with a kraft colored envelope.

Measures 7.5 x 4 inches.

$5.00, Buy it here.
£3.25, Buy it here.

Now you can send mail that can be immediately recycled into something fun.

…Excellent for kids and grown-ups who are just big kids, it’s made from balsa wood and the pieces easily pop out to form your very own loop-de-loop, flying glider. It’s much more fun than ordinary mail and once you write a little message on it, it becomes post with a bit more love and personality.

3″ x 5″

$9.99, Buy it here.

This will take care of your valentine cards for 40 years, or cover your 40 different valentines…or maybe it’s just a good thing to have on hand throughout the year when you want a clever little way to say those three words on paper.

Whether you’re penning a romantic valentine or sending a note to a friend, this collection of 40 unique postcards will help you say “I love you” in a fresh, creative and clever way. Printed in China.

Size: 6.75″ L x 5″ W x 2.25″ H; 40 postcards

$12.00, Buy it here.

If you’re the type to take notes or write down your daily observations, these notebooks make it easy to mark the date.

Art museum catalogue designer Atremio Croatto created these striped tone-on-tone blue Notebooks (2007) for the Milan-based Nava Design, which specializes in highly stylized paper products. Clever page headers allow the diarist to circle the day, month and year for accurate tracking of observations. Perforated sheets make passing notes a snap. Sold in packs of 5.

Pocket (Small)- Set of 5: H 5″ W 3.5″, $40.00
A5 (Medium)- Set of 5: H 8.25” W 6”, $50.00
A4 (Large)- Set of 5: H 11.75” W 8.25”, $60.00
Buy it here.

[posted by katie]