Dog-eared and covered in ballpoint doodles, the humble composition notebook has been a mainstay of teenager knapsacks for the better part of the last century. And not just students love them.

Composition notebooks are not great notebooks. Their covers fray, ink bleeds through their whisper-thin pages, and it’s next to impossible to get them to lie flat. But designers and artists love them ...

For jotting down notes, sketching elaborate monster rampages over cities, or just capturing your thoughts, people love a marbled composition notebook. These journals have been a staple of schools and ...