Michael Bierut
26 Years, 85 Notebooks
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=6067
I really enjoyed reading this article by Michael Bierut about his notebooks that he kept over the past 26 years because I found a lot of similarities in the way I keep my notebooks, although unlike him, I call them sketchbooks regardless of the amount of sketching that actually takes place in them. I bring my sketchbook everywhere and anywhere and take down notes from class, thoughts and ideas, numbers, addresses, anything really, and I like to stuff found papers and notes in my books for things to look back on. It was nice and reassuring that I had similar ways of keeping sketchbooks. It made me laugh reading about his attachment to his notebooks (and his obsession with a particular type of mead composition book) because it's something that is so simple but especially important to all artists. It's exciting to start collecting books of my own (since I only have completed a few) so that I'll be able to reflect back on times in my life and find new inspirations like Bierut talks about. I wonder since he didn't touch upon, but I assume he does not, if he starts new notebooks if his old one is not completed because I work in several books simultaneously.
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