![]() Everyone on Bierut’s team gets one-a nod to his own love for the disposable, everyday notebook. Later, as a designer on Michael Bierut’s team at Pentagram, where he’s worked for the past five years, he was given a standard issue composition notebook to work from. To complement his graphic design major at MICA, Fay minored in book arts and printmaking, and to help fund his studies he worked with a fine art lithographer and letterpress printer. But Fay’s year of research actually turned out to be the most rewarding part of the process. He’d designed books before (and made them, too) and it never required late nights in the library. Plowing through primary sources hundreds of years old and amassing a small collection of moldy (literally) old notebooks wasn’t what Fay had in mind when he first set out. But when all that dust was kicked up around the Comp’s campaign launch, the more interesting design story got buried-and by “more interesting” I’m assuming that, like me, following a yellowing paper trail through the unchartered terrain of undocumented design history gets you all hot in the seat. I’ll spare you the Twitter quibbles as well as the lofty allusions by some to its place in the annals of artist notebook lore. Has he, one FastCo writer ponders, “ robbed the composition notebook of the very humility that makes it so approachable?” Gasp. ![]() So far he stands accused both of creating the world’s most perfect notebook ever, and bringing about its destruction. To his credit, he seems as surprised by the degree of adulation Comp’s Kickstarter campaign has inspired as he is by the criticism that’s bubbled up around it. I won’t bother relaying the specs Fay’s attention to detail has already been gratuitously adored by enough people to make the soft-spoken designer blush. I can attest, and you can see from the images here, that it is indeed a beautifully made notebook. Pentagram designer Aron Fay’s new notebook, Comp- which gives the cheap and quickly tattered composition notebooks of your grade school days a fresh, considered, quality upgrade-falls into the latter category. Sometimes these redesigns are badly needed (see: toilets for the developing world ) and sometimes they just make everyday life a little better. You may also like our personalizable, soft cover journals and softbound notebooks, custom backpacks and totes, custom notepads, and full line of planners and office supplies to complete your organization system.As a design-loving non-designer, I envy practitioners two main things: mad Illustrator skills, and the ability to see something in need of a redesign-and then actually go and redesign it. From classic college-ruled notebooks to composition notebooks to bullet journals and spiral-bound to-do lists and notepads, your perfect custom notebook is waiting for you to personalize it to match your unique style. Whether you want fun and pretty notebooks that reflect your personality, or functional, high-quality notebooks for the office, explore our full collection of spiral-bound notebooks and journals to find the best notebooks for you. The more you make your journal your own, the more motivated you’ll be to use it each day. If you want to personalize your spiral notebook even more, complement its pages with easy-to-use accessories like snap-in dashboards, writing tools, and sticky notes. Working on a dedicated project that needs streamlined organization, or are you writing the next great American novel? No matter your needs, our custom notebooks are the perfect addition to your office supplies and will help you achieve your goals while adding more writing capabilities to your favorite planners and organizers. Choose from different soft cover designs (including laminate interchangeable cover options on some designs) and coil colors to make the personalized journal of your dreams or spiral notebook or composition notebook full of functionality. Options for custom notebook pages include college-ruled lines, college-ruled lines with sidebar checklists, dot grid pages for bullet journaling, graph paper, and more. We have customization options to fit any style and schedule, and nearly every custom notebook and spiral journal detail can be switched up to match your tastes and writing needs. Start by designing a stylish spiral notebook that fits your aesthetic. Combining the best functionality of notepads, organizers, to-do lists, and composition notebooks all in one, explore our collection of the best notebooks for note-taking, bullet journaling, planning, writing and journaling, memory-keeping, and more! Capture your creativity and inspiration in our custom notebooks and journals, perfectly portable, easy to slip into backpacks for writing on the go, and the ideal companion to our planners and office supplies for all-around organization.
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