Free Giveaway #25
Number 68, Ted won the free giveaway last week. It was the leather cover for the large size Moleskine notebook.
So… I am back now from a 2+ week, 6000 mile road trip. While I was gone Jackie did some prototyping of some new discbound stuff we are creating. You know… that Rollabind and Circa brand stuff with the discs and mushroom shaped punches in the paper which can be removed and reinserted. Anyway, we already sell some discbound stuff like our heavier leather covers and modular systems but we are working on a line of covers using our rustic elegance leathers that come in 7 colors. This one is shown in our cranberry red leather. The interior of this one has 2 interior pockets. Our final version will have more storage with three.
The item below is the prototype with a black quarter binding…. our first attempt. We are also toying with reinforced corners. It is a little disproportioned which means the winner gets it for free. We have corrected that problem and these will be appearing on our virtual shelves some time soon with prices to rival… “he who cannot be named”.
The new line will be fun, innovative and while elegant, not the same ole corporate looking stuff everyone else is carrying. PLUS… it is made right here in our Santa Fe, NM studios and not at some overseas factory in China. So, you know the quality will be superior and… since we make everything to order you will be able to TWEAK it.
So, the item below will fit your 8.5 X 5.5, 3/4 inch disc discbound notebook. It has 2 extra interior pockets and a pen loop. Have fun commenting.
Remember that the winners need to contact us with their address and phone number in order to get their gift.
As usual, click HERE to read the rules of this Free Giveaway BUT do not comment on that link to enter. You enter by commenting on THIS THIS post.
Tags: discbound, free giveaway
June 4th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
OMG, I think I’m the first to actually post!
Love the color!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
This looks really great! I like the color and the way the leather curves.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Oh, lovely and functional!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Looks very cool!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Love it. Have been a big fan of your stuff for a while and look forward to all the new stuff you come up with. Still waiting for the Bible cover idea I sent you to happen!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
i would *love* to win this… :crossing fingers & other appendages:
June 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Very nice!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
That is great, and so much more interesting than the standard disk-bound leather covers. If this is a prototype, the production is going to be gorgeous. Keep it up, and I’ll start saving for a full-size cover.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Nice! I’d love to give it a whirl!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Cool.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
This looks very promising.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
That would look awesome to tote around to interviews this fall!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
This looks beautiful!
June 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Awesome, please enter me to win.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Beauty and function - can’t ask for much more. Can’t wait to see the other colors (although I *really* wouldn’t mind winning this one!)
June 4th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Wow! The colors work quite well. I’m a big fan.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I love the discs…can’t wait to win this :^)
June 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Looks great…count me in for the drawing!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
looks very nice!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Beautiful. Love the design and the idea.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
This line looks awesome. Great job!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Welcome home to the Artbeast and his family. I don’t use Circa products, but this is a purty cover!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I would love it!! It can go over my notebook.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Count me in, looks good!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
This is beautiful! I would love to win this.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
It’s gorgeous!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
See how high my hand is raised?
June 4th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
very cool!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Oooo shiny. Would love to have.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Oh my! This is so beautiful!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Wow! This is yummy-looking!
June 4th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I’m going to have to go out and buy some disc-bound stuff now.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I could really use one of those.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
It’s such a deep rich colour!! I absolutely love it!!
June 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Looks a lot nicer than the one I’m currently using which has the name of the company I was laid off from…
June 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I’m a crusty old curmudgeon when it comes to entering contests, but I saw this black and magenta binder in an FPN post and immediately knew it was something my daughter would love to have. She’s a college student and is very organized with different journals and notebooks. I’d be happy to buy her a punch for this binder so that she could organize things the way she wants. She loves colors like that magenta (her favorite fountain pen inks are shades of this color).
And I have the perfect paper for this notebook: Domtar Solutions 105 gsm paper. It’s great with fountain pens and can be run through a laser printer to put a desired ruling pattern on it. Hmmm, if I don’t win this binder in the drawing, I’ll probably still have to buy one…
June 4th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
OK, that’s the right shade of red, for sure. Very pretty.
June 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
This is GREAT~! Love the colors and the wavy design on the color blocking.
Hope I can win~!
June 4th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
That looks lovely… do you ship to Canada?
June 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Beautiful color!
June 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
This is beautiful. I love the colors and the design. Enjoy all the disc-bound goodies.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
It’s lovely. Much nicer than the plastic covers I use now.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Very nice! Thanks for the chance to win!
June 4th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Definitely innovative. This is the type of stuff my wife is always trying to get me to buy. Nice work.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Looks great! Throw my name in there!
June 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
That’s pretty! I usually like the more traditional brown and black styles, but that one is quite striking. I like it!
June 4th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
woof
June 4th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
It’s beautiful! Love the colors.
June 4th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
That looks beautiful - I’ve been wanting to try a disc based notebook - maybe this will be the motivation to give it a shot. Here’s to hoping!
June 4th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
This is sooo great looking! I love that you are branching out into more colors, some times black and brown are just too grim for the levity of my thoughts.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I would love to have this!!!!! Pick me! Pick me!!
June 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Nice, but wouldn’t take it to a business meeting!
June 4th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
This looks beautiful!
June 4th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
That looks great, I can’t wait to see the rest of the colors. Hope I win it!
June 4th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I had great luck with Field Notes last week; maybe this will be another lucky week.
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” - William Morris.
Your book fits both criteria!
June 4th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Oh, yum!
June 4th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I am a rollabind user, so I could use this, thanks.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Wonderful!
June 4th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
It looks like Yin and Yang
Very nice!
June 5th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Wow, nice new design.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:28 am
This is bee-you-tee-ful!! Pulling this out in the morning would start each day with a smile — I love the intense cranberry color.
If you make a model with “more storage,” will it still take 3/4″ rings?
June 5th, 2009 at 4:07 am
I have been looking for a journal with a nice cover without success. Maybe I should have been looking for a journal cover all along.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Very nice!!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:23 am
I love the curve. Beautiful!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Great looking cover!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:46 am
Oh, I love this! And have just the notebook to use it with …
June 5th, 2009 at 4:59 am
The Black/Red is striking.
Curvier and you’re all the way to ying and yang.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Whoa! Quite different than the rest, this journal needs to find just the right home. Here.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Yummy colors, love it!
June 5th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Oooh, I want it!
June 5th, 2009 at 6:56 am
It’s beautiful! The colors work well together. I really like the design.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Mmmmmm. I love the colors! I am putting my name into the hat for this one, ’cause it is so so so pretty!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Amazing looks and craftsmanship! Put me in the drawing for this one, I do love handmade notbooks.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
A Circabind cover that’s hopefully brian bound. Looks nice.
June 5th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Beautiful! I love the read leather!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Very professional looking. Clean lines!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Beautiful - that’s my color! Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie! Of course, selfishness is not my true nature…But for this I’ll make an exception!
June 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Nice!
June 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am
WOW! That is one stunning cover!
June 5th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Cool!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I keep threatening to buy something from Renaissance Art, but never manage to save the pennies for it. Deeeeaaaar Santa!!!!!!
June 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Crabberries! Yes . . .
June 5th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Would be great! Thanks for the work.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Absolutely gorgeous!
June 5th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
NICE. Droolworthy indeed!
June 5th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I want one =~~
June 5th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I’m sitting here linking to your contest on my blog, Losingthworld.com, when I realized that I haven’t entered myself. Well… here it is!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Here’s my entry, I like the colors.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Sign me up too, the hubs would like this one too.
June 5th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
great new addition to your disc-bound line.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Art,
The new design looks great. Elegant, but fun. There’s nothing better than wrapping your Circa notebook in a great looking and smelling leather cover. Please sign me up!
(from http://www.diyplanner.com)
Thanks,
Walter
June 5th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Put my name in the drawing!
June 5th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Ooh, pretty. Count me in!
June 6th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Gorgeous colors! A great way to launch a new product….
June 6th, 2009 at 3:55 am
woooow great book
June 6th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Look forward to a unique cover for my Circa - others are boring - this is anything but!!
June 6th, 2009 at 10:57 am
This is something my wife would love. Nice design.
June 6th, 2009 at 11:59 am
I like the colours and the concept, but it doesn’t look quite right visually to me.
Personally, I’d make the narrow black section narrower and the wide section a bit wider at the bottom, so there is a bit more of a ying/yang balance.
June 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Love it! I always appreciate the quality Renaissance Art’s designs.
June 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Oh that photo is a tease, I want to see the inside. The color is fantastic and I hope you will offer some brown leather combinations once it goes on the shelves!
June 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
This looks so pretty and handy.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I like this one a lot.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Disproportioned or not, I love this cover. The color is beautiful!
June 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Am trying again, as I love the look of this one!
June 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
This looks great. It would make a very stylish cover for my lecture notes - perfect.
BTW, this blog entry has not been properly tagged as a ‘giveaway’.
June 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I cannot quite tell if it’s cranberry or garnet. If it’s Garnet, I’m custom ordering mine with a Gamecock on it!
June 6th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Ooh, ooh — pick me, pick me!!!
June 6th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Now there’s something to throw your hat in the ring for.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Gorgeous
June 7th, 2009 at 7:12 am
Love to have this for my sketchbook/journal/planner.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Wow! This would certainly make even work-related notes beautiful to behold.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Ooh, pretty!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Beautiful, rich colors and nice lines. Very Droolworthy! Here’s my entry!
June 7th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Fun! It’s nice to see a cover that is different and not just the run of the mill black office standard.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Beautiful! I really love the colour!
June 8th, 2009 at 1:58 am
I think my granddaughter uses Rollabind, she’d love this.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:09 am
gorgeous color!
June 8th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Very nice - I even like the color combinations. Look forward to seeing these widely available.
June 8th, 2009 at 6:25 am
very, very, VERY cool.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I love this, looking for an elegant cover for my diy organizer….
June 8th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Nice. I am using something that I modified off-the-shelf, but this would be quite a bit nicer.
June 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Lovely! Put me down for the draw, please!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
LOVE this cover! I hope you guys have a hunter green/black one out eventually since I think that would look amazing. Love the red though too! Fantastic work! Sign me up for that please!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
That is very lovely! I especially like the color combo.
June 8th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Love this one! Those colors are great!
June 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Looks absolutely gorgeous. Wonder if it has a good tactile feel to it too…
June 8th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Looks nice. If you do reinforced corners, you should use a narrower strip of black binding. I see those disc bindings everywhere on-line, but haven’t actually tried one in person.
June 8th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Looks really nice. I can almost smell the leather from the picture.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
I reaslly like the leather product you have come up with.
I also like the color combination!
I am a big-time circa user and I need this product!!!
June 9th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Great combination of colors!
June 9th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Wow - Yin and Yang! Really pretty.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I love the disc bound system and this cover would just make it perfect!!
June 9th, 2009 at 9:30 am
I really like the cover. It’s so nice to see something that has a little personality.
June 9th, 2009 at 10:19 am
This Free Giveaway is over.
The winner is number 82, Jason.
Please email us with your address and phone number.
Here are your random numbers:
82
Timestamp: 2009-06-09 17:17:49 UTC
June 12th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Looks great.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:44 am
Very handsome item.
July 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Looks great - matches my backpack Bible
July 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Quite beautiful. Shockingly nice mix!
July 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Beautiful cover, love the colour.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:13 am
omg i love the colors. i would love to use that instead of my boring black leather one
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 am
another outstanding product! Thanks for the opportunity to own it
August 16th, 2009 at 10:51 am
This is so much fun. It is a great item as well and I really enjoy the game of this. I hope I win.
October 14th, 2009 at 10:30 am
This is a WAY COOL design. I am an avid disc planner user. I have my fingers crossed that I win.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
This is beautiful, and just what I’m looking for … too bad I’m far too late for the giveaway.
And idea when it will be in production?
January 6th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
this is awesome so is this site!