Illustrate your Notebook
Take part in myDetour from 30 October to 15 November 2008

Dussmann - Friedrichstraβe 90, D - 10117 Berlin
Haupsache - Rosenthaler Straβe 32, D - 10178 Berlin
KaDeWe - Tauentzienstraβe 21-24, D - 10789 Berlin
Hugendubel - Tauentzienstraβe 13, D - 10789 Berlin

Bring your notebook to us - and show it in Instanbul if you're picked

The myDetour event aims to promote the artistic expression.
For this purpose the initiative is designed for people who have personalized their Moleskine notebook or - if they do not have a Moleskine notebook - a notebook of another brand, in an original and artistically significant way, for instance by means of drawings, paintings, literary compositions, photographs etc.
The choice of subject is entirely free.

Rules and arrangements for participation in myDetour Berlin (PDF)
Consent Form for participation in myDetour Berlin (PDF)

Remember them?
During the last myDetour event, April 2008, the jury selected the ten best among all the notebooks left at the three myDetour collecting points in Paris. Now it is time for the ten to be displayed in the upcoming myDetour event in Berlin, from october 30th to november 15th.

Let's get to know the first location for two of them: Marie Compagnon and Sarai Delfendahl's notebooks were both dropped in La Hune bookshop in April and are going to be shown at Dussmann - das KulturKaufhaus in Friedrichstrasse 90 [see the map].

A short interview by Mr Torsten Prohl, Branch Manager at Dussmann


[At the beginning of the interview Torsten Prohl talks about Dussmann, describing the variety of the products the bookshop can offer (books, CD, stationery), he then dwells a lot on Moleskine, saying that they've been selling this brand for eight years: starting with just a few articles and then expanding the range.
The regular customers like Moleskine very much and come to the bookshop sure to find here what they are looking for (apart from diaries, city notebooks are a big hit).
He speaks then again of Dussmann, and gets to myDetour: he says he believes it will help people see all that can be done with Moleskine notebooks; he also speaks about the Museum der Dinge and mentions the Detour event.]

A new point where every notebook lover could drop his own decorated notebook in Berlin is Hugendubel bookshop, in Tauentzienstraβe 13 [see the map]

Inside the bookshop, besides the collecting box, three notebooks coming from previous myDetour event in Paris,will be displayed: notebooks by Cacatie, Jill Gallieni and Lorraine Remise (click on the names to see images of their artwork).

A short interview by Mrs Caudia Ordelmans, Branch Manager at Hugendubel.



[The bookshop is in a central position, on the Kurfϋrstendamm, and it's been open for eleven years now; Claudia Ordelmans says that Moleskine and Hugendubel suit each other very well, which is proved also by the myDetour event. Hugendubel wants to reach people of every kind: conservative and creative, young and old, Hugendubel has no restricted target group, like Moleskine hasn't. So myDetour suits Hugendubel very well and the event will help people understand what they can do with Moleskine; on top of that, by illustrating a notebook someone will be able to fly to Instanbul next year.]

If you happen to pass by Rosenthaler Straβe from october 30th to november 15th, you could drop your notebook in the collecting box inside HauptSache design store, at number 32.[ see the map]

In the store, beside the collecting box, you'll see two notebooks coming from previous myDetour event in Paris: Emmanuel Lesgourgues and Emi (click on the names to see images of their artwork).

A short interview by Mr Axel Muller, Owner HauptSache.


[Open for four years and a half, it sells different brands (as Montblanc, Filofax and other german brands) among which, of course, Moleskine; Alex Mϋller explains that people cherish the Moleskine notebook, as it is connected to artists like Picasso and Chatwin; he also absolutely believes that myDetour will attract a great deal of interest and that a lot of notebooks will be received; then he speaks about Detour, quoting the artists and architects who donate their notebooks to the foundation lettera27 for the exhibition; he ends the interview saying that "Moleskine is a very nice thing!" ]

Every notebook lover can participate in myDetour Berlin by leaving his own artwork in the collecting box located at Kadewe, Tauentzienstrasse 21-24,  from october 30th to november 15th. [ see the map]

Next to the box, notebooks by Michèle Antoine, Maarten Averink and Florie Mahe coming from the previous myDetour event in Paris will be displayed (click on the names to see images of their artwork).


A short interview by Mr Michael Wiekhusen, KaDeWe

[Michael Wiekhusen presents KaDeWe as the biggest department store in Europe; he then speaks about the stationery department, where they have been selling Moleskine since 2003 and very proud of doing so; they are also pleased to take part in the myDetour event; he says that this initiative will be very positive both for clients and for the people who will participate; he believes myDetour will be a great success both for Moleskine and KaDeWe.]

Illustrate your Notebook
Take part in myDetour from 30 October to 15 November 2008

Dussmann - Friedrichstraβe 90, D - 10117 Berlin [click for photos and video]
Hauptsache - Rosenthaler Straβe 32, D - 10178 Berlin [click for photos and video]
Hugendubel - Tauentzienstraβe 13, D - 10789 Berlin [click for photos and video]
KaDeWe - Tauentzienstraβe 21-24, D - 10789 Berlin [click for photos and video]

Bring your notebook to us - and show it in Instanbul if you're picked

The myDetour event aims to promote the artistic expression.
For this purpose the initiative is designed for people who have personalized their Moleskine notebook or - if they do not have a Moleskine notebook - a notebook of another brand, in an original and artistically significant way, for instance by means of drawings, paintings, literary compositions, photographs etc.
The choice of subject is entirely free.

Rules and arrangements for participation in myDetour Berlin (pdf)
Consent Form for participation in myDetour Berlin (pdf)

Check your mail box in the next few days!
If you took part to myDetour by posting your notebook in one of the boxes in Berlin, you will receive a limited and numbered edition Moleskine Notebook especially designed for the event!

We wish to thank also all the Moleskiners that took part into the myDetour, by leaving their notebook at the four collecting points in Berlin.

The jury is about to complete the difficult task of selecting the notebooks - in the pictures, left to right, Maria Sebregondi, Raffaella Guidobono, Lucio Lazzara.

Klara Kohler
Fachschule für Bildhauerei in Hallstadt (1995 - 1999)
Universität für Künstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung - Zweig: Bildhauerei (1999 - 2005)
Seit Ende 2007 als freischaffende Künstlerin tätig; diverse Ausstellungen, Symposien in Österreich, Tschechei, Türkei, Deutschland und Frankreich
Japanese sketchbook


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Allison Dring
Detour notebook - Plain Pocket


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Stephan Markus
Detour notebook - Plain Pocket


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Jeanne Koulischer
Plain Red Notebook - Pocket



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Tomasz Kargol
Frankfurter Buchmesse Storyboard



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Nadine Barnick
Plain Black Cahier Pocket


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Judith Glaubitz and Maria Heidepriem
Arbeiten seit 2008 als selbständige Photographen und Illustratoren für verschiedene Zeitschriften.
2002 - 2007 Studium Visuelle Kommunikation in Wiesbaden und Konstanz.
Japanese - Pocket


First selected notebook
The girls of the Glambitz-Heiderpriem graphic design and illustration studio succeeded in turning the Japanese notebook into an artistic book through a radiant tale, written in mixed technique, of a typical afternoon on the way to Karl Marks Platz. A walk projected into the fantasy of anyone who for the first time saw Berlin united, with all the freedom that you can almost touch around the streets. The girls run in the rain and at dawn they move on to the town that was once separated, and that now is just the repository of two different pasts. They graze the Check Point Charlie area and then walk past the legendary tower which, only twenty years ago, was no entry zone. In the Turkish quarter Oranienstrasse they start dancing in the streets involving every passer-by they see while hoping not to get lost. The illustrated words flow on one single page through diagonal thoughts, matter illustrations and collages. Berlin, they tell us, will be always like this, and leave an optimistic message which we greatly need.  [Raffaella Guidobono, curator]

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Jane Trema
Watercolor - large

Special Mention for Fiction
Built as a comic book through the pages of a reporter notebook, she takes notes on her daily life and invents a parallel story of an ideal life, to then reveal all its simplicity through an effective and self-ironic illustration. [Raffaella Guidobono, curator]


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Corinna Wittke
Studium an der Akademie der bildenden Künste München + an der HdK Berlin. Seit 1989 lebe + arbeite ich in Berlin... entdecke die Spuren dieser Stadt und füge neue hinzu: Malerei, Graphik, Performance, CorArt - fooddesign, nicht zuletzt: die Kunst des Lebens + Liebens...:-)
Detour notebook

Special mentions for Creativity Amusing culinary homage to the town of Berlin from a chef who is capable of evoking and gluing chocolate flavours and golden leaves through a pathway  of streets and recipes with a very personal touch. [Raffaella Guidobono, curator]


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Yayo Kawamura
Born in October 1967, grew up in Tokyo, living in Berlin since the fall of the wall, Communications&design degree, works as a free lance illustrator and graphic designer.
As a passion for pens, paper, and color. As a family with one daughter, one son, and one husband.
Sketchbook - Pocket

Special mentions for Graphics
Yayo Kawawura presented an intense, ironic, yet totally imaginary collage, where user's instructions cuttings, maps, paper table cloths and receipts return an amused fauna. [Raffaella Guidobono, curator]


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The jury has finally choosen the ten notebooks that will be exhibited on public display on myDetour Istanbul. Here below the complete list, enjoy it!
The first one is the one considered the best of all by the jury, and its author will be invited to Istanbul to attend inauguration of the Detour exhibition there.