The Design District

Posted By Lisa Radon on 07/14/2008

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Quattro 2×3 inch grid. hand*book journal co. Global Art Materials

The beautiful notebook, you must agree, can give the appearance, the sense of a highly organized and efficient data collection and parsing system. I feel smarter and more on-the-ball already after picking up this Quattro notepad at Art Media (902 SW Yamhill) this weekend. I was sold at the image of the isometric cube on the cover.

So far, there are no hypotheses and experiments outlined, but a reminder on poet Steve Dickison coming to town for the Jess show at the Cooley, a note to check out what Bwana Spoons has coming out for fall/winter, and a question to self about Bo Hagood’s wetbar…was it a wetbar? Go check it out.

The gridded pages inside are a little bit Rhodia, and have a feature I’ll never use: x and y axes noted with tiny circles. Yeah! There is a lined version wherein the lines are spaced in a manner more spacious and more friendly to the written line. But the grid makes me feel like Buckminster Fuller meets Marie Curie (with a little Louise Nevelson thrown in for good measure). Like.

””According to metaphysics, thinking is circular. But when you square the circle, then you are in the place of wisdom.”—Louise Nevelson