Manifesto
This weblog is an attempt to invite a return to analog. Many of us live very digital lives. We push pixels around screens. Our lives are stored as bits on shiny hard drives. Our words and images can be published online, available moments later, all around the world. But this digital life can often seem very shallow.
While we recognize the power of our digital existence, we long for the tactile feel of ink on paper. We celebrate the freedom from power supplies, batteries, wireless networks and fragile electronics. We seek to elevate the written word and the freehand sketch on fine paper. We celebrate the journal as the optimal analog device for expression and enjoyment.
Journalisimo.
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Journalisimo is a collaborative effort between graphic designer Mike Rohde and Armand Frasco of Moleskinerie.com.
January 17, 2005 in Observations | Permalink
Comments
Good luck with your new site. It looks like you are off to a great start, and I look forward to reading it in the future!
Posted by: Kirk | Jan 18, 2005 5:23:42 PM
Hi,
Great site - I was surprised but pleased to see it is the creation of two of my favourite 'bloggers'.
Mike and I exchanged comments on the pixels vs paper situation last year. It's something that I have 'flip flopped' on for a while:
http://www.zensbikeshop.com/archives/2004/12/the_whole_pixel.php
http://www.zensbikeshop.com/archives/2004/06/i_have_been_a_p.php
http://www.zensbikeshop.com/archives/2004/06/in_goodbye_pixe.php
http://www.zensbikeshop.com/archives/2004/07/in_my_earlier_p.php
I am now very happy with my Economist diary (if you're gonna go old school do it in style) and a Moleskine copy from Paperchase in the UK - I'm using the copy as it has thicker more fountain pen friendly paper.
Anyway - love the idea of the site and will be watching with interest.
Good luck!
Posted by: David Hughes | Jan 19, 2005 10:56:08 AM
Looking forward to reading this blog. I've tried a number of PDAs, but I always come back to my trusty Filofax. Eventually, I realized that what you like, you use; thus, a PDA is a much less effective tool for me because I don't enjoy using it nearly as much as I do pen and paper, and thus don't use it as much or keep it with me as devotedly, and thus it becomes a paperweight. Viva analog!
Posted by: Joe Ganley | Jan 20, 2005 12:10:25 PM
Found you via Mike.. love the concept and its very timely as I've just picked up a journal and pen again after a better than 10 year absence. I told my wife and friends that I had let the technology become an excuse instead of an enabler.
I've managed to write quite a bit since picking it up again.. 10 years to catch up. I'll be posting about Journalisimo soon to my own blog!
Posted by: Brad | Jan 20, 2005 10:17:55 PM
I really love the lay-out you gents have come up with -- very clean, but not at all bland. Well done!
Posted by: John | Jan 25, 2005 3:19:34 PM
Mike/Armand,
Congratulations on a beautifully done site (design and content wise) and, as Mike already knows, I'm a web designer myself. I've now added the site to my Safari bookmarks, in my 'Inspiration' section, and I frequent it regularly (Blogs are changing my web browsing habits).
BUT... the real success is that I went out and bought a pain paper 13x21cm Moleskine tonight from my local Graphics store, also picked up some excellent Pilot signpens (beautiful black ink! more detail later Mike).
All I've got to do now is to overcome that unwillingness to 'blemish' the Moleskine with my markings - is there such a thing as Artist's Block?
Mike you hit the nail squarely on the head when you mentioned that pen and paper improved your creative process and, after all, it was drawing that got me started on my design career. So 2005 will be my return to good draftsmanship, aided and abetted by your good selves.
Thanks for the site, good luck.
Hey, there ain't no 'Apple-Z' on this Moleskine thing!...
Posted by: Davy McDonald | Jan 25, 2005 4:19:32 PM
I love it!
Hehe:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzszabo/3776226/
Posted by: Lo Szabo | Jan 27, 2005 1:07:26 AM
Mike / Armand,
Great site. I think it brings together my favourite elements of your respective sites.
Evidence that is is good? Whenever I open a web browser this is the first place I come.
Many thanks
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew | Feb 15, 2005 3:01:35 AM
The Pleasing text and design!
http://srubibablo.com
There was merrily!
Posted by: DenEldeni | Nov 30, 2007 6:43:42 AM
So good to find your blog!
And- also great to find more advocates of hand-written expression. I blog, too, but it's really an extension of journaling-by-hand. You'll see plenty of photos of the implements of writing on the go. For the last 10 years or so, my pattern has been to carry a larger journal in which I write in pen-and-ink (with dip pens), and something very pocketable for saving ideas- always in pencil. Working various jobs, for many hours, "holding thoughts" gives me prompts for later, and more detailed journal-writing.
Finding journal books without ruled lines is always a challenge, and I wind up with "sketch" books, although thicker paper handles wet ink very well.
Wonderful blog! I'll keep reading!
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