I’m one of those designers that likes to sketch out new website layouts with pen and paper. Nothing fancy- I don’t haul out the acrylic paints or anything. My sketches are usually just a bunch of boxes and lines with arrows pointing out different sections of a layout. When I first started, I did these sketches on nearly anything that was handy- the back of a flyer, an empty space in a newspaper page, and yes, the ubiquitous paper napkin. After awhile, and too many lost sketches,I got wise and bought a tabbed notebook (okay, so it was a Five Subject Notebook). Several years later (I started web design in ’95, when I was very young), someone gave me my first Moleskine… and the rest- well, you know the rest. Au ‘voir, Mead- hello, Moleskine. [Read more…]