SCRAPBOOK
James Biber’s
Moleskine
on View
at the Art
Directors Club
James Biber filled a Moleskine notebook with a year’s worth of images and sketches.
Last winter James Biber was invited by I.D. Magazine to fill a Moleskine sketchbook for A Week in Your Life - 13 Book d’Autore, an exhibition of notebooks from 13 architects, designers and writers. Originally on view in Milan for 2009 International Design Week, the exhibition has now reached the Art Directors Club in New York, where, following a one night viewing for last week’s Stationery Show, it will be exhibited this Friday, May 29 for a viewing timed to Book Expo America.
Each participant in the exhibition was sent a notebook from Moleskine’s new Folio Collection and asked to document a week in their lives. For his book, Biber took the opportunity to go further. “During the last week of the year I collected the previous 12 months in an album of collage, images and sketches,” he says.
“Digital images, though convenient and easy to manage, are inherently non-tactile, can’t be juxtaposed or drawn on, and sit too neatly in the software’s grid. The Moleskine, and some transfer film, allowed me to create composites, contrasts and collages of a year’s worth of travel and projects. It’s the one chance to do what we all used to do with pictures: sort them, pile them up, throw them on a table and see them as objects rather than digital files.
“I plan to make it a yearly ritual. Finally, I am a part of the scrapbooking movement. Next, decoupage.”
Other participants in the exhibition include Yves Béhar, Marian Bantjes, Ayse Birsel, Han Feng, Michael Graves and Jessica Helfand. Friday night’s viewing runs from 6:30 to 9:30 pm and is open to the public. At the Art Directors Club, 106 West 29th Street in New York City.
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