#composition notebook

[cutpastesteph]

Progress in my mini composition notebook collage journal.

I'm leaning more into textures with this book. Letting what's usually just the background be more of a star and trying not to force "focal" images...though some still show up. It's a bit new for me, but I'm really digging the results.

All of the pages in this book started out as just 2-3 scraps plastered on the pages randomly during a couple of journal meetup sessions. Now I'm going back and finishing the pages. I really like that as a method to combat blank page paralysis

[cokiemace]

You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's School Dance Party (2000)

[digitalfossils]

[laughingsquid]

Wonderful Embroidered Composition Notebooks

[tokyohanna]

[thmadethis]

I can't believe it, man. A few years older than me. And I had JUST finished coloring this fun design and making a pattern from one of my favorite childhood movies, Harriet the Spy :( I hope she got to see everything and know everything she wanted to. Rest in peace girl... 🔍🟧🐈‍⬛

[myrebornbabybook]

Back to school 🎒 back pack supplies!

[oldphemera]

Front and back covers of Mead Composition 100 sheet wide-ruled notebooks, from 1994 (left) and 2025 (right), 20 years apart. Fronts are in the top image, backs are in the lower.

Notable for both their similarities and their differences, the 1994's white front label very much appears to have been cut out by hand and pasted onto a background for photography and printing as would've still been common - if not typical - at the time, whereas the 2025 is naturally and clearly all-digital.

This particularly shows up in the back where the greater flexibility of digital allows for text to be placed on the faux-wrinkle-coat texture via strategic placement of black fill areas behind the otherwise-too-small text. All that text ended up in the large white medallion on the front of the 1994 edition, where legibility would've been assured.

Another small difference is that the tape binding on 1994 is smooth, whereas the 2025 has a distinct fabric texture to it, also visible in the scans when enlarged.