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Between the elegance of Moleskine and the ruggedness of Field Notes, there are literally reams of bound paper out there to save your brilliant thoughts and sketch world-changing ideas. But what if a notebook, a tool of the creative class, actually sparked creativity? Chicago artist and toy designer Shawn Smith’s Resketch project, currently on Kickstarter, not only records but elicits ideas from users with a series of creative prompts, pages with images, characters and creative inspiration sandwiched between multi-colored, multi-textured stacks of resourced paper. “As far as we’ve come with digital media, it’s still not as direct as pencil, pen, and paper,” says Smith. These sleek, environmentally friendly tomes manage to foster the sense of discovery that might lead one to furiously scribble inside a notebook in the first place.

Resketch books (7 x 9-inch, between 85-100 pages, and coil-bound with a thick chipboard cover and back) are currently available on Kickstarter; backers can also opt for the Artist Cover series, featuring prints from Art Baltazar, Andrew Bell, Chris Ryniak, Mig Reyes, and Smith.