15 Awesome Notebooks You Can Buy Right Now

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Young Designers Kit Notebook

Price: $10.72

As the Design Museum Shop says, "No designer is ever without his or her note book," and they're right. It has a grid interior and comes in grey, light grey, and dark grey.

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Mollaspace Armed Grenade Notebook

Price: $20.00

The Mollaspace armed grenade notebook comes in a series using 3D covers of weaponery. Its unique pages are complemented by an equally unique meaning, intending to shift the typically violent perception of weapons by focusing on creativity, knowledge, and writing.

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Field Notes Colors Limited-Edition Memo Books

Price: $12.95

Field Notes' Colors series is a limited-edition variation on their classic memo books, exploring new papers, printing processes, and colors. We recommend the Summer 2012: Day Game Edition, printed July 2012 in a quantity of 18,000 only.

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Rite In The Rain Side Spiral Journal

Price: $6.95

Rite in the Rain's side spiral journal is all-weather and extremely durable, coming with 64 sheets, 4 5/8 inch x 7 inch pages, a Polydura cover, and wire-o binding.

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Unionmade A4 Hardcover Stationary Notebook

Price: $50.00

The Wine Red Graph version of Unionmade's A4 hardcover stationary notebook is made with Japanese and Swedish stationary and comes in lined, plain, or graph paper. It even comes with a pencil!

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Rhodia Webnotebook

Price: $19.90

It's no secret that artists and designers love Rhodia notebooks for their grids, smooth paper, and iconic cover. The orange cover stands out from all the other notebooks and looks good when you carry it.

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Pantone Chips Journal

Price: $9.95

This 192-page journal/notebook has a patchwork-like cover inspired by the color “chips” that make up the Pantone Matching System. It's simple yet sophisticated and has graph paper pages.

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Doane Paper Utility Notebook

Price: $9.95

Doane Paper's utility notebook comes in a 3-pack with the Grid+Lines stationery design. It has wide ruling for those that like to write large and has 48 pages per notebook.

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Muji High Quality Smooth Paper Note A5

Price: $5.75

Muji products are loved by many for being high quality in more ways than one. Perhaps more than anything, their smooth paper, as exemplified by the Smooth Paper Note A5, is perfect for writing smoothly with gel or fountain pens.

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Clairefontaine Courants d'Arts Pop Art Notebook

Price: $11.40

This notebook references the pop art of Roy Lichtenstein, who incorporated comic strip subjects into his popular artwork. It has 74 sheets of super-smooth Clairefontaine paper for easy writing with or without a fountain pen.

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Ecosystem Author Journal

Price: $10.95 (small), $16.96 (medium)

The Ecosystem Author journal boasts sustainable construction, using 100% post-consumer recycled, lined paper, with both hard and flexi-cover options. It also has an elastic band and pocket insert.

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"Smile" Wafer Notebook

Price: $60.00

This lambskin Smythson notebook not only reminds you to "smile," it reminds you to appreciate the finer things. With 96 leaves of gilt-edged, pale blue Featherweight paper, its $60 price tag is indicative of its high quality amongst all the other notebooks out there.

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The RISD Small Recycled Sketchbook

Price: $12.99

RISD products are undeniably popular, and their sketchbooks are no exception. With 160 pages of unlined recycled paper, this is an awesome notebook choice for RISD students and non-RISD students alike.

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Mini Notebooks Lucha Libre

Price: $8.95

These mini notebooks designed by Natalie Saint Martin are inspired by icons of Mexican pop culture. They come in packs of 3 and are perfect for quick notes, to-do lists, and more.

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Moleskine Peanuts Weekly Notebook

Price: $22.95

This 18-month large weekly planner from Moleskine is great in itself — it's sturdy, hard cover, has 208 pages, and the classic Moleskine elastic band. It's extra special because it's the Peanuts edition and has scenes from it debossed in a glossy white finish on the classic Moleskine black cover. While it's both a planner and a notebook, the functions complement each other nicely.

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