One of my favourite things to do is sketch. When an idea hits me, I always have my Moleskine near me. I like the way it feels, the shiny black lustre and the roughness of the cover, the colour, thickness and smoothness of the paper, it just feels so… luxurious. I’m not the kind of person that keeps things in any kind of logical order, from my sketchbook to Photoshop layers, nothing is in sequence, and there can be fragments of several different ideas spread across all the pages. When it comes to putting ideas down, I like it when my Moleskine is packed solid. There isn’t a page which isn’t sketched on, no corner of a page left untouched. To me it feels like the more I fill the pages up, the more valuable my sketchbook and ideas become to me. It feels like it’s worth it’s weight in gold the more I thoughts I put in it. When I set out to redesign my site, I didn’t just want somewhere to show my work, I wanted a testpad, a place to experiment and try new things but still display them in a rough manner. Which is why some posts will be articles, some posts will be unfinished thoughts, some will be rough, others will be smooth. There will be doodles and sketches and scans and little tests of things and ideas all over the place. I wanted to find a way to share that same excitement of thoughts and creativity and ideas in with the same density and richness that I have in my Moleskine. I’d like to translate that into an electronic medium if I can, a place to experiment and tinker, a laboratory of sorts… I call it ‘tinkeration’, and that will be the topic of my next post!