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 ...

Design Week: Where would you typically come across composition notebooks? Aron Fay: In the States if you go to a traditional grade school you’ve probably used them at one point or another. As a school ...