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What is your favorite size Bloc Rhodia Pad?
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My first exposure to Rhodia was about 5 years ago when perusing the selection of Bloc Rhodia pads in my local Blick Art Supply store. The first pads I ever bought were a pair of the 3×4″ N° 11’s, and I kept one in my backpack everywhere I went. As a writer, I found there were certain bits of information I wanted to easily reference and that’s where I kept it – jotted down in my always close-at-hand N° 11. Continue Readering »
What would be your ULTIMATE journal design?
Once I discovered that there were paper products better suited to my writing habits beyond what a composition book from my local drugstore could provide, I ended up dedicating a good deal of time and energy trying to find what would be my ULTIMATE journal. The one that I would buy by the truckload so I would have enough of it on hand no matter what. Continue Readering »
Would you like to be a guest blogger on Rhodia Drive?
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Do you have a story or product review you’d like to share with our readers? If you would like to be a guest blogger here on Rhodia Drive, send your original ideas for submission to stephanie at rhodiadrive dot com
Please include your full name and the name you would prefer to appear online if your content is published.
Posts should range in the 100-500 word range and may be edited for content and clarity.
Speaking of inks, what is your favorite color?
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As I had mentioned in a recent post, I have at least 10 fountain pens inked up at any given time- each with a different color. When I bought my first fountain pen, (a red Lamy Safari 2 years ago) I only wanted to use one color- black. Continue Readering »
A Pocket in Your Journal
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A recent e-mail from Chris Meisenzahl asks: “I generally write on one side of each page in a journal. I also use the rear pocket for ticket stubs, receipts, mementos, etc. As the pocket gets things in it it becomes more and more awkward to write on the right side of the open journal. Has there ever been any thought of moving the pocket to inside the front cover, instead of the rear?” Continue Readering »
Lined, Blank or Graph?
Carrying over from the recent discussion on the Rhodia Drive Facebook page, (You are a fan, aren’t you?) I posed the question: “Lined, Blank or Graph?” Continue Readering »
New Clairefontaine Graf it Sketch Pads – Have you tried them?
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These spiffy new Clairefontaine 90g Graf it pads are sitting on my “To Review” pile. I’m wondering how the paper compares with the paper in the Clairefontaine Sketch Pads. (Which I like.) Continue Readering »
December
December is the busiest month of the year at Exaclair, the U.S. distributor of Rhodia. 
As many of you know, we also import J. Herbin inks, Clairefontaine notebooks, G. Lalo social stationery and other brands from our French parent companies. The Quo Vadis planners and notebooks we distribute are designed in France, but made our our plant in upstate New York. All of our notebook and planner products are made with Clairefontaine paper from the Vosges mill in France. Our sketchbook and fine arts papers are made at the Schut Mill in the Netherlands owned by Clairefontaine. You can read more about our mills here.
Every part of Exaclair is going full throttle to process orders, ship products, finalize the 2010 catalogs; get all the review samples and raffle winners on their way via USPS, field hundreds of calls and email messages about products and where to find them in the US or elsewhere.
We are all ready for “a long winter’s nap” by the time Christmas Eve finally arrives and things calm down. The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the sweetest of the year: quiet, peaceful, and a time for unharried reflection.
We have some good things coming in 2010, including two new notebooks from Rhodia. The Rhodia Weekly Notebook line, introduced this year, sold out two printings. Next year we plan to expand the line and production.
Also on tap for 2010 is a blank journal with 90g paper.
2010 will mark the 340th anniversary of the founding of J. Herbin. That is a company rich in history–J. Herbin produced its first sealing wax in 1670 when Louis XIV, the Sun King, was 32 years old. The first pen ink was produced by Herbin in 1700. “Perle Noire”–still the name of our black fountain pen ink–was produced a few years later. When I look at a bottle on the shelf, I try to comprehend that ink of the same name was used 300 years ago. In this age where nothing seems to stay or last for very long, that says something to me.
I would like to introduce Clairefontaine paper to new communities of people who like notebooks as creative tools, or who enjoy the simple pleasure of writing, whether in the quiet of a studio, lab, living room or even out on a trail. When you are ready to leave the virtual world behind for a little while, a notebook is a perfect companion.
This description of our notebooks by Russell Hemsworth, owner and paper buyer for Nota Bene in Montreal is very apt: “Someone suggested I could call it intellectual stationery,” he said, but prefers to categorize it as “stationery for creative minds.”
Grab Your Camera and Show us Where You Buy Your Rhodia!
Target? Dick Blick? Borders? Art Brown? We want you to show us where you buy your Rhodia… Continue Readering »
Let’s Talk Pens
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I would like you to tell me about your most favorite writing pens. The one(s) that you reach for when you plan on sitting down and staying for a while…. filling page after page of your thoughts, plans, dreams and aspirations, shopping lists and homework. Continue Readering »
Hardcover or Softcover Journals- Which do you prefer?
Rhodia user China from the UK wrote to us asking if there might be a possibility of a soft-covered Webnotebook in the future. Hmmmmmm…. Continue Readering »
