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 ...

Five Star notebooks were probably your immediate upgrade from Mead’s Composition notebooks. You can break up ideas or topics among each section, and the pages are surprisingly good at preventing ink ...

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 ...