A perfect fusion of material, form, colour and function, the ecological Dot notebook reminds us that creativity comes from materials.
Arbos Ecodesign Stationery
Notebooks, journals and agendas are made with materials that respect the environment, which summarizes Arbos' love for nature, passion for paper and its bond with the territory and Italy. Thanks to collaborations with various designers and artists the writing collections capture the attention of all writers and those passionate about paper and ink. Click here to see the entire collection. download the catalogue.
LIGO, the ecological and sustainable notebook made only of paper.
Ligo: the brilliant notebook! We said goodbye to traditional staples, glues and bindings, to be inspired by the exactitude of self-assembling papermaking, the simplicity of a gesture. From this happy intuition was born ligo, a notebook made of 100 per cent paper.Ligo...
Ocean the innovative and sustainable sea-saving notes
The preservation and protection of the marine environment invaded by huge quantities of plastic is a highly topical issue, As a B Corp company, we asked ourselves what contribution we could make to this challenge. Thus was born Ocean, the sea-saving notes, a very...
Ecological notebooks to celebrate Dante’s modernity
2021 is a special year: the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet. Hundreds of initiatives were organised to celebrate Dante Alighieri by organisations, institutions, artists and cultural associations in the most important cities but also in smaller...
Coloriamoci: ecology and creativity on a child’s scale
"Hands are the instruments of man's intelligence," wrote Maria Montessori.And this is even more true for children who use their hands as a means of exploring the world.Montessori maintained that, through doing, thinking manifests itself: manipulating things, in short,...
Digital Identity Notebook: what is our “real” identity?
Digitisation is transforming not only the world around us but also our very identities. Numbers, passwords and algorithms are replacing “analogue” faces, histories and identities, and are forcing us to explore new and different ways of relating to others… and to...
Tribute to Andrea Palladio: the ecological and refined Arbos notebook
Andrea Palladio (1.508-1.580) could certainly be described as the first super-star of modern architecture. The stylish notebooks in our “Andrea Palladio” collection convey the classic elegance of the Palladian style in terms of production, materials and printing...
COMICS collection. Do you remember your childhood?
The new collection Comics tells the complicity between Milo and poldo, playmates imaginative games. The short stories created by graphic designer Silke De Vivo, take us back to those happy moments that we can all remember. They can re-ignite the excitement that we...
Chicken: paper notebooks to rediscover contact with nature
Today the chickens are finding again their role of domestic animals and they come back to keep us company in gardens and our homes. What is your favorite chicken? … a funny and colorful line that illustrates the characteristics of some of the most famous breeds of...
La vita a pieno: the diary of Filippo Ongaro
Molti pensano che tenere un diario sia una cosa da adolescenti. Invece scrivere un proprio diario personale è una delle terapie naturali più efficaci contro l’insicurezza, gli sbalzi d’umore, la mancanza di focalizzazione e lo stress
Lace Collection – notebooks where innovation meets tradition – by Romina Carrisi Power
La collezione Lace creata da Romina Carrisi Power sa unire la modernità alla tradizione dell’artigianato artistico italiano riproponendo una grafica delicata, quasi sensuale che rimanda all’antica arte del merletto.
Quaderni/Disegni – Masterpieces, in the form of notebooks
“Quaderni/Disegni” is an evolution of the “Quaderno” conceived by Mala Arti Visive in 1994. The “Quaderni/Disegni” project has so far involved 6 top contemporary art galleries in Italy and other countries which, in turn, have selected 6 artists and invited them to...
Re-Use by Antonio Scarponi – the ecological and creative “notes-system”
Re-Use is the only ecological and creative “notes-system”. Re-Use consists of 2 types of binders that all take the standard A4 size paper. The binding exploits the universal punching system of the two-hole punches commonly found in offices.Re-Use is made entirely from...
Mecum Draft: the Italian notebook with a story inside
MECUMdraft: a notebook that is as innovative as the great Bodoni was: it provides 30% more space than normal notebooks, a completely flat opening for improved ease of writing and the exclusive patented pen holder bookmark.
Leaves: fascinating journals and objects in recycled leather
Journals with elegant bodonian binding and the objects with their essential design, have a pleasantly fresh, natural feel
Quaderni Aperti: copy-books to write in and to collect
Copy-books to write in and to collect, which take us back in time and show us how children – in their simple, direct way – have always sought to describe the world in which they live.
Collection Writing by Ricuoio
The notebooks and copy-books in this collection, bound in recycled leather (Ricuoio®), are now among the most iconic of Arbos’ articles. The product is simple in design, clearly and definitively functional, and invitingly tactile: the recycled leather, warm and soft...
ORGANIC LINES small notebook
I quaderni ecologici della linea Organic Lines sono una delle novità introdotte da Arbos nella collezione 2015. Le loro copertine sono ispirate alle geometrie e alle forme da sempre presenti nel mondo vegetale, per dare vita a quaderni amici della natura in ogni senso.
GOTHIC small notebook
Anyone attracted to the world of the Gothic, and those mysterious tales pervaded by darkness and magic practices, is sure to love these original new notebooks, all made from recycled paper. The rough straw-paper cover is inscribed with graphic symbols derived from...
CAVE CANEM small notebook
“Cave canem” was often written on the entrance to villas in ancient Rome. Nowadays we write “Beware of the dog”, suggesting that dogs are fierce and threatening animals… We prefer to think that man’s best friend is naturally kind, gentle and… intelligent. And so these...
KROMA small notebook
“Colours are the universal language of the soul” wrote Wassily Kandisky. What better way to introduce the Kroma series of the new small copy-books made from recycled paper? Here’s a real rainbow of colours to start brightening up 2015. You can use the language of...
Designer notebooks of the Tar Paper line made with petroleum paper
“PETROLEUM, A NATURAL REMEDY”: although it may sound like a provocation, it really is not! From time immemorial, petroleum has been one of the natural substances most useful to man. The Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians took bitumen, in its pure state, from large...
The combination between Arbos and art create the “Quaderni” eco-notebooks
“WE FINALLY SELL NOTEBOOKS” this was the title used 20 years ago to present our “QUADERNI” (Notebooks) project, an icon of the Arbos production.“Quaderni” is a contemporary art creation available in stationery shops and book stores both in Italy and abroad since 1994....