Dog-eared and covered in ballpoint doodles, the humble composition notebook has been a mainstay of teenager knapsacks for the better part of the last century. And not just students 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 ...

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Hardcover or soft? Leather or cloth? Spiral-bound or sewn? Are the pages gridded? Are they a comfortable writing size? Do they tear out easily? Whether you use your notebook mainly for jotting, ...