Composition notebooks are not great notebooks. Their covers fray, ink bleeds through their whisper-thin pages, and it’s next to impossible to get them to lie flat. But designers and artists love them ...

Hardcover or soft? Leather or cloth? Spiral-bound or sewn? Are the pages gridded? Are they a comfortable writing size? Do they tear out easily? Whether you use your notebook mainly for jotting, ...

For jotting down notes, sketching elaborate monster rampages over cities, or just capturing your thoughts, people love a marbled composition notebook. These journals have been a staple of schools and ...

Design Week: Where would you typically come across composition notebooks? Aron Fay: In the States if you go to a traditional grade school you’ve probably used them at one point or another. As a school ...