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Trip Planners - View Our Full Range of Designs HERE

Posted by smART bookx on Thursday, September 23, 2021, In : Travel and World Cultures

View All Trip Planner Designs

Pick your favorite and go straight to it's Amazon page.

Thanks for looking,
The smART bookx design team
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Our Trip Planners have had a Makeover

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Friday, July 6, 2018, In : Travel and World Cultures

Hello All,
We've been super busy over the last 6 months republishing most of our journals as second editions with a new publisher. The second editions of our Trip Planner & Travel Journals have a way better interior, with clearer fonts and more space for daily trip planning. Plus we've extended the design ranges. Here are a couple of our new additions:

(Ranges: Top left 'Trip Art', Top right 'Quotes', Bottom 'Rustic')

FYI All the 2nd editions and new designs are on at cheaper prices even tho...
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Road Trip Planner

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Friday, March 25, 2016, In : Travel and World Cultures

A trip planner and travel diary combined for up to 4 vacations (just like our other Trip Planners), but the cover of this one is perfect for an American Road Trip. It's covered, front and back, in fantastic American vintage postcards, stamps and road signs.

How about a Trip Planner & Travel Journal Combined?

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Friday, March 25, 2016, In : Travel and World Cultures

You can store all your travel plans and memories in one place with these new journals from smART bookx. There's tonnes of stuff inside (really good value for money). There's a trip summary page, a detailed daily activity planner with costings and then a really spacious travel diary section with prompts and space for your own thoughts & photots. Each book accomodates up to 4 trips, so when it's full it will become a lasting record of all your travels, say in one year or over the course of a fe...
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Two new Paris Travel Journals ...

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Monday, August 10, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

... a collage design and an antique map of Paris:

Both have the famous Oscar Wilde quote "When good Americans die, they go to Paris" on the first page.

Lucky Chinese Gifts

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Friday, April 10, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

The covers of our handy 'Lucky China' notebooks are packed full of Chinese symbols for good luck...

Journal (left), Notebook (center) and Pocketbook (right)

The dragon brings good fortune to those who deserve it and the Chinese characters for luck and happiness are featured on the front and back covers. Hidden within the twisted stems of the three lucky bamboos is the number eight — considered auspicious in China because it sounds like the Chinese word for 'wealth'. To polish it off we've...
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Union Jack Gifts / Presents

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Friday, April 10, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

A full suite of traditional union jack stationery sizes to choose from ...

Above: Journal (left), Notebook (center) and Pocketbook (right)
Below: Project Book

Customer Review (Pocketbook), Dec 2014 "This was a gift for my niece prior to her trip to London. It is a very nice, small note book. It isn't too big, but just the right size to jot down little notes about her trip."

The Union Jack or Union Flag is the official flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is comp...

Our Love Affair with Scottish Tartan

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Thursday, April 9, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

So popular is this simple plaid design that we publish it in our full range of sizes:

Above: Red Tartan Journal (right), Notebook (center) and Pocketbook (left)
Below: Red Tartan Composition Notebook

Tartan is, of course, inextricably linked with Scottish culture, probably more so than Nessie, neeps and tatties or whisky. Walk into any Scottish gift store and you will be confronted with a blaze of tartan … and yet it has evolved into so much more than just another Scottish emblem for presen...

Italian Flag Pocketbook

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Thursday, April 9, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

Our Italian Flag design is available as a notebook (5" x 8", left) and a pocketbook (4" x 6", right):

What is it about the Flag of Italy that just makes you think of Neapolitan ice cream? We find the curly font also provokes subtle desires to eat spaghetti. It's hard to look at this stationery and not think FOOD! Would be good for foodies to keep Italian recipes in.

Japanese Stationery with Hokusai Prints - Journals, Notebooks & Pocketbooks

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

Journal (left), Notebook (center) and Pocketbook / Small Notebook (right)
with The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai wrapped around the front and back covers.

Hokusai was a Japanese print-maker who lived at the beginning of the 19th Century and had no less than thirty different names over the course of his lifetime. The famous Great Wave off Kanagawa is the first print from a series of thirty six which he created under the name Katsushika Hokusai during his sixties, when widely regarded to ...

St Patrick's Day is on its way

Posted by smART bookx Notebooks on Tuesday, March 3, 2015, In : Travel and World Cultures

If you're looking for St Patrick's Day gift ideas, we've recently published our 'Luck of the Irish' notebook (left). It features Celtic patterned lace and a traditional St Patrick's Day blessing (with plenty of four-leaved clovers) and is available as both a notebook and a larger journal. The blessing reads:

May the Irish hills caress you;

May her lakes and rivers bless you;

May the luck of the Irish enfold you;

May the blessings of St Patrick behold you.

If that doesn't float your boat, there's a...
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Planning on Exploring this Summer? View our Travel Journals / Gifts

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Monday, June 16, 2014, In : Travel and World Cultures

Antique Map Travel Journal (left), Antique Map Travel Notebook (centre) & Small Inspirational Travel Journal (right)

We publish light-weight but tough paperback travel journals in two designs.

The covers of the Antique Map travel stationery feature a rare and decorative Dutch 17th Century world map, originally made using copper engraving. Inside both sizes (journal & notebook) you'll find the inspirational quote by St Augustine:

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only o...

New Additions to our World Cultures Travel Series ... Flags & more Flags

Posted by smART bookx Stationery on Monday, June 16, 2014, In : Travel and World Cultures

We've added a few more flag designs to our popular Travel & World Cultures Notebook Series. You can now buy Italian, German and French Flag notebooks from smART bookx: