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 ...

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.

You never know when you’re going to need to write something down. So it’s my opinion that a creative or organized person can never have too many notebooks. Here’s a simple project to take an ordinary ...