Heads up UK folks – you can now get US-made Doane Paper here! It’s now stocked in the UK exclusively by Fox and Hardy, who were lovely enough to send me some to try out, and to giveaway to you guys.
They stock the Coloured Utility Notebooks, which come in packs of 6, for £19.95. These are normal memo book size and are stapled (as you can see). I LOVE the colour choices, and the covers are slightly matte, which is a really cool finish.
The print of the paper is pretty unique – a cross between grid and lined, which came about when Chad Doane noticed half of people use grid, half use lined and he wanted to come up with a type of paper that allows people to use both a the same time. I must say, I think this will take me a little while to get used to, but I think it’s a great idea.
I tested out the paper with my usual suspects; Mark’s Days ballpoint pen (biro), Muji Gel pen, Pedlar’s Signet 100 pencil, Kaweco Al-Sport and Le Pen felt tip. This paper holds up so well with all of these, it’s definitely up near the top in terms of the best I’ve tried. Even with fountain pen you can’t see the ink through the page, which is amazing. I’m impressed.
They also stock the Flap Jotter in the small size, which comes in packs of 3 for £12. It’s a reporter style notepad, and has the same Doane paper. You can also buy a leather case for your jotter.
So, I’m going to give away 3 of these Utility Notebooks to one lucky reader:
In order to enter yourself into the giveaway, please comment below and say which of the 3 colours you’d like – I’m afraid I already used the dark blue, to test the paper, but you can choose from the rest.
The rules:
- Comment on this post by Monday 27th April 2015, 5pm GMT
- I will choose a winner at random
- This competition is only open to those in Europe I’m afraid (given that the notebooks have come all the way from the US, it seems silly to open this up to further afield than Europe).
- One entry per person
So get commenting – which colours are your favourite?
One last thing – Fox and Hardy also sent me one of their super cool bandanas, and since I was wearing it to keep my hair out of my face when I took the photos for this post, I thought I’d share a shameless selfie 😉
these are just too nice! especially the grey, red and mustard ones. lovely stuff.
The red, yellow and green ones are the nicest! I never knew traffic light colours could be so heart-achingly beautiful <3
NICE!!! I must try them!
Gotta be Orange, Red and Light Blue! Nice to see more U.S. brands here in the UK
Green, orange, and red
red, light blue and grey would be great!!
I love the dark blue.
I love the pale blue and grey ones! Thanks for the giveaway.
I contacted Doane a while back to ask about paper but they weren’t shipping to the UK at that time so this is good news. I like the traffic light combination of red, yellow and green.
Green looks ace. Or orange. Light blue’s nice too. Can I just say all of them?
I love Grey, Mustard and Red.
I love the Mustard, Grey and Red 🙂
I also contacted Doane Paper about UK shipping and got an email back from Chad Doane himself, which I really appreciated. I’m so glad that Fox & Hardy are now stocking these. Chad suggested that I use the DP pdf and create my own notebooks from that, which I’ve tried. However, the idea of just buying a bunch of these ready-made is so much easier! I wish Doane Paper all the success in the world – they’re a great company!
I was excited to see these come to Europe finally. The grid and line thing is just so interesting. I’d love to use the grey, green and red.
I’ve also been interested in these previously, nice to see them available.
I’d go red or green but wouldn’t say no to any of them.
I like the orange and the red and the — oh all right then, the light blue as well.
They look fab – I’m going to have to get meself some new notebooks I think 🙂
I love the red one! 🙂
Definitely red!
Light blue, green and Orange! They just more appealing when they group together! 🙂
Cool giveaway! I love the grey, orange and green!
Yay!!- Really pleased to see that the Doane notebooks are now available in the UK, thanks for letting us know, can’t wait to try them out 🙂 My favourite colours are dark blue, green & grey
The mustard one!
Love the light blue!
paper looks fab, love grid but sometimes lined is necessary! Think daughter would like to so writing practice on this too!
nice!
red!
I love the Mustard, Red and Grey!
I’m ineligible since I’m in the US. I just love those colors.
I’d love to enter please.
Buckets & Spades
Grey, green and yellow looks lovely! Thanks for the giveaway!
I really love the Lilac one and the fact that the ink does not come through to the other side of the paper
Ooh – mustard, green and grey, please!
Summer is coming so light blue for clear skies, green for grass under bare feet and red for…um..sunburn!
Lovely, green & mustard please!!
Red the colour of passion, yellow the colour of cowardice and green the colour of envy!
Light blue, yellow and red! They’re bright and sure to draw attention to how neat they are.
Oooh, the light blue one I think! What a lovely giveaway, thank you!