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AND THE WINNERS ARE: "Moleskine Passions Book Journal giveaway"

Here are the winners to our "Calling all Passionistas" contest.

Wellness -  teo (February 05, 2010 at 01:20 AM)

Wine -   Shawn Schoonmaker (February 02, 2010 at 03:02 PM)

Music -  Michael A (February 05, 2010 at 05:39 PM)

Recipe - Natalia (February 03, 2010 at 06:53 PM)

Film - John (February 06, 2010 at 09:50 AM)

Please email us your postal (mailing addresses.): moleskineconnect@gmail.com.

These are the random winners that had comments on Moleskinerie, there are other winners across Facebook and Twitter that will be contacted and win in addition to these here.

We thank everyone who joined. Watch out for more chances to win Moleskine notebook soon!

(Photo:Allyson Murphy)

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Update 5.45P CST 2.08.10:

Here are the final winners, and the channel they won on:

Wellness -   Kira (Twitter)

Wine -   Carlo (Twitter) 

Music -  Ashlyn (Facebook)

Recipe -  Sommer (Twitter) 

Film -  Jessica : (Facebook)

Snapshot: Alan Van Nelson

Every week in 2010 we will shine the light on a Moleskine user across the globe, this week's snapshot is on Alan Van Nelson.If you want to be featured in upcoming weeks, please email us!

Introducing: 

Alan Van Nelson

Age: 24

Current City: Winston Salem, NC

Job: Freelance Photographer/Designer

Website: brainofalan.tumblr.com

Twitter: twitter.com/alanvannelson

Questions:

1) What is your current Moleskine notebook?

    My current, most used Moleskine is a large graph size, but I also have a small watercolour for drawing, daily planner, extra small cahier that I keep in my wallet, and one of the Woodstock Edition sketchbook.

2) How do you use your notebook?

    I'm a list maker and a perpetual thinker. I use it to jot down new ideas for shoots, logos, future essays, and as a scrapbook of sorts. I do freelance and so it doubles as a kind of portfolio as well. But, I also like to remain well rounded, so I'll keep track of my current movie/music/book choices as well. It's a great source of inspiration in that quotes and past ideas and the like aren't forgotten or ignored. It also holds the all important "Bucket List." Something I think everyone should have.

3) What's the next place you plan to take your notebook to?

    Well, I don't know really. I tend to take it everywhere with me. Even just to see my fiancee down the street. It's always there when I come up with a new idea or need to remember a layout or design for later. But, ideally, I'd love to take it to Ireland or Japan in the next couple years. But, by then I'll have started a new one.

4) What do you want to tell the world?

    That looking from the ground up, you can only go higher. A friend helped me realize that a couple years ago. It doesn't matter how far you fall or even where you start. You can only go higher from the furthest point in your life, no matter how far down you've gone. It also goes hand in hand with a quote I hold very dear to me. The lead singer of Switchfoot, Jon Foreman, once said, "Everyday you wake up, you change the world." So if you look at life like that, the hardest goal in anyone's life is already done just by opening their eyes. With everything keeping us down these days, whether it's the economy in the US, or war in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the earthquake in Haiti... open your eyes and you can change the world. That's basically it.

5) Where will you and your notebook be in 5 years?

       Well, married and hopefully experiencing the world. Whether that world is out back in the garden or in Hampi, India, I know it will be amazing. And of course, my trusty friend Moleskine will be right there with me.

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The John Mayer Custom Moleskine Notebook

From John Mayer's blog:

"We made a set of Plain Notebooks and a set of Ruled Notebooks based on Moleskine's Large Notebook series. Each cover is embossed with the Heartbreak logo and has a custom imprint on the flyleaf page. Every flyleaf page has been hand-numbered. The books include a set of sticker tabs and a screened poster...."

Check it out.

Calling all Passionistas

Due to the exuberant participation of our #Passions Book Journal giveaway, we decided that we can't just let Book enthusiasts have all the fun (no offense to the bookworm army). So we are going to open the contest to include an opportunity to win one of each of the #Passions Journals: Wine, Recipe, Film, Music and Wellness.

The details for those who skimmed over the last post ;-)

Join us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter

And don't forget about the corporate site (shameless plug)  

Then be creative and tell us what will be your first entry into the #Passions Journal you hope to win. 

You can do so by commenting on this post , or commenting on our Facebook wall or by tweeting it, example "@moleskine my first entry into my Wine #Passions Journal will be the delicious Malbec I just had at dinner". Just pick YOUR Passion. 

Make sure you use the # symbol for your tweets or updates so we can track it (#Moleskine #Passions)

Good Luck ! 

Fine Print:

We will pick random winners and announce the world on Monday :) 

2 winners per #Passions Journal 

The contest is GLOBAL (if you have a post office, we will mail it) and will run until Sunday, February 7th 

You can enter as many times as you want 

Excludes the Book Journal, those winners will be announced Thursday, February 4th

(Image: Allyson Murphy)

CONTEST: Moleskine Passions Book Journal giveaway

 In anticipation of the North American launch of the Moleskine Passions line, we have decided to give our community the opportunity to get the Book journal before anyone else does! The giveaway is open to anyone in North America. We will pick 2 random winners on February 4th. (Bookmark included)

Details:

1) Follow us on Twitter or/and Facebook (do both for a better chance of winning) 

2) Let us know which book will be the first to go into your new Passions journal 

On Twitter do so in this manner: 

• Ex: "@moleskine , my first book entry in my #Passions will be The Whale" 

On Facebook post a comment on our wall

• Ex: "The first book entry in my #Passions journal will be (insert book)" 
  

If you boycott both Twitter and Facebook; then leave a comment on this post letting us know what book (using the examples above). 

That's it, we will let the world know of our 2 winners on Thursday, February 4th. 

(Image: Allyson Murphy)

Moleskine at the Grammys

Our friends at the Grammy Foundation were kind enough to call out the fact they used a Moleskine folio for the Green Room book, which is signed by numerous celebrities and musician who attended the event and is then auctioned off on eBay Giving Works. 

Check out all the celebs who signed it.

Project: A Moleskine Hack for Mom Bloggers and Mom Entrepreneurs

Neat set of mods for busy moms by Stephanie at Bizzie Mommy:

"I bought the standard Moleskine size (3.5 x 8.25 inches) and divided into six categories; calendar, monthly goals, blog calendar, blog ideas, giveaway/review calendar, to do’s, and free space..."

Check it out!

Congratulations to Neil Young, 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year

Connect with us: MOLESKINE on Twitter

 

 

Snapshot: Tim Baynes

Every week in 2010 we will shine the light on a Moleskine user across the globe, this week's snapshot is on Tim Baynes.If you want to be featured in upcoming weeks, please email us!

Introducing:

Name: Tim Baynes 

Age:  56 going on 20'ish 

Current City: London 

Job: Heading up training for a great sales team within the BBC 

Website: www.timbaynesart.co.uk and daily on http://timbaynesart.blogspot.com/ 

Social Network  Facebook and Linked In

 Questions:

1) What is your current Moleskine notebook?

There are two: Large Ruled Notebook mainly for ideas and notes about business and a Large Sketchbook for drawings everyday. 

2) How do you use your notebook?

For seven years the Notebook has been my no-batteries required business friend. For drawing and colour work, every day, the Sketchbook is it. 

3) What's the next place you plan to take your notebook to?

New York and Warsaw 

4) What do you want to tell the world?

Moleskine Notebooks are THE best way of giving your ideas, creative and thoughts the REAL respect they deserve. 

5) Where will you and your notebook be in 5 years?  

A: Oh will some book publisher please use some of my Moleskine drawings! There are 1,500 of them, covering 40 different cities - I will sell my soul and the copyright! 

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Limited edition: The Tim Burton Moleskine

Moleskine has created a special limited edition Moleskine notebook to commemorate the MoMa retrospective of Tim Burns.

"The MoMA retrospective honoring the art of acclaimed director Tim Burton explores the full range of his creative work, from early childhood artwork to his contemporary work in film. The gallery exhibition of more than seven hundred drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, storyboards, puppets and costumes is accompanied by screenings of Burton's features and shorts in the museum's theaters. Both run from November 22, 2009 through April 26, 2010." 

Learn more.

Video: Moleskine Passions - Recipe Journal

The Moleskine Passions Recipe Journal.

Part of the Passions range, this handy notebook can accommodate your cherished heirloom culinary secrets and most recent foodie finds. Conjure, compile, cook!!

Learn more.

Sketches from Google Street view

Lehel Kovács is an artist in Budapest. Pictured above are samples from a series of sketches he did from Google Street View images. From his "About" page:

Lehel is a freelance illustrator based in Budapest, Hungary. With a window-dresser degree and a graphic designer past, Lehel's illustration are eye-catching, colorful and joyful, where his hand-drawn line works are usually combined with digitally created colors. He also makes screen prints.

View the photostream on FLICKR

Visit his website

Learn more Google Street View

©2010 LH

Video: Moleskine Passions

Passions: the new Moleskine collection specially designed for your life passions.

Recipe, Wine, Book, Film, Music, Wellness: 6 journals to collect and organize information, comments, memories, clippings and reviews concerning your very own Passions. Each journal comes with a fully embossed cover, bearing a texture of themed illustrations.

Learn more here.

Snapshot: Kolby Kirk

 

Every week in 2010 we will shine the light on a Moleskine user across the globe, this week's snapshot is on Kolby Kirk.If you want to be featured in upcoming weeks, please email us!

Introducing:

Name: Kolby Kirk
Age 34
Current city: Pasadena, CA
Motivational Hiker
www.thehikeguy.com
Twitter: @thehikeguy

1) What is your current Moleskine notebook? 
Pocket Plain Notebook

2) How do you use your notebook?
I started using my Moleskines in 2004 and only for keeping a journal during international backpacking trips, but now I use one on all hike-related activities.  In May of last year, I made the resolution to hike 100 times before 2010 - that's 100 hikes in 240 days - and I was successful in accomplishing that goal.  For every hike, I brought my Moleskine.  I would use it to write down notes on the hike, make observations on nature and sketch out animals I would spot (if I had time).  

My goal for this year is to hike 500 miles before 2011 and in the process, introduce 150 people to hiking that usually do not hike.  I have started a new pocket plain notebook in order to keep notes, sketches, maps and mileage related to these goals. I suspect I'll fill a few of them before the year is out.

3) What's the next place you plan to take your notebook to? 
My next hike!  I need to hike about ten miles a week in order to meet my goal of 500 miles in the year. Every step of the way, I'll have my Moleskine within reach.

4) What do you want to tell the world?
To take a hike!  I mean that in all sincerity.  I try to promote the hiking lifestyle through example (both my own and others), and to help others learn the importance of respectfully exploring our natural areas.

5) Where will you and your notebook be in 5 years? 
I hope to continue living life in the best way I know now, and I'm sure that I'll have a Moleskine in my pocket when I do.

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FREE: New downloadable sleeve designs

myMoleskine gallery has passed 1000 submissions. To celebrate all those who joined Moleskine has made a new kit is available: a series of cut and paste pocket sized notebook sleeves, to be used to store and classify your notebooks. All 10 sleeves feature images are from the gallery. The downloadable files are open, everyone can change images and personalize the sleeves as they wish.

Learn more at Moleskine.com