Gallery: Paper, the iPad's Best Drawing App, Now Serves Up Custom Moleskine Sketchbooks
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Book, a new collaboration by Moleskine and FiftyThree, lets you print a beautiful physical notebook with 15 of your own drawings, right from the Paper iPad app. *Photo: FiftyThree*
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The $40 book comes with a custom cover or the traditional black. *Photo: FiftyThree*
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"A lot of people have been asking me why we'd go from a tool for digital creation back to the analog form," says Becky Brown, a designer at FiftyThree who led the development of the new product. The simple answer? "It's about letting users bring their ideas to life." *Photo: FiftyThree*
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It can be flipped through, but the pages are all connected into one long, accordion fold-out length. *Photo: FiftyThree*
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Georg Petschnigg, FiftyThree's co-founder, says there are all sorts of scenarios that benefit from this sort of immediate, side-by-side context: travel journals, fashion collections, story boards, presentations and study guides just to name a few. *Photo: FiftyThree*
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The fold-out page style is borrowed from one of Moleskine's existing products, the Japanese journal, but the size and shape of the book are totally informed by the app. It's Moleskine's first notebook with a 4:3 aspect ratio, which means that the digital sketches can be perfectly translated to the print pages with minimal scaling or shrink-to-fit funny business. *Photo: FiftyThree*
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"It's a new format altogether," Petschingg explains. "This paper is digital size. The book was designed for the iPad screen." *Photo: FiftyThree*
