James Biber’s Moleskine on View at Milan Design Week
James Biber filled a Moleskine notebook for an exhibition currently on view in Milan.
This past 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 that is currently on view in Milan as part of 2009 International Design Week. Other participants in the exhibition include Yves Béhar, Ayse Birsel, Marian Bantjes, Han Feng, Michael Graves, Jessica Helfand, Seth Godin and Linda Tischler.
Each participant was sent a notebook from Moleskine’s new Folio Collection and asked to document a week in their lives. In his book Biber catalogs influences on his work and considers his own recent projects like the Harley-Davidson Museum .
A Week in Your Life – 13 Book d’Autore opened this past Monday (pics here) and will remain on view through next Monday, April 27 at la Feltrinelli, piazza Piemonte 2, Milan. In addition to being displayed in the show, the notebooks have been photographed and their contents filmed. The books are also featured in the May issue of I.D. (print version only) and will be coming to New York for a future engagement, to be announced. The notebooks will eventually be donated to the archive of Lettera 27, a non-profit foundation that supports the right to literacy.