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. Jean ...

Fay calls his reimagined notebook "Comp." The update, for which he's now raising funds on Kickstarter, looks like an old-school composition notebook, only better.The 148 pages (lined or unlined ...

When that cover design caught on, it became easy for people looking for composition notebooks to spot one on a shelf. In a way, marbling became a way to “brand” this type of blank paper.