Take note

For notebooks that will stand out from the crowd, check out the Museum of Modern Art’s gift shop. Their Hidden Pencil Notebooks have trompe l’oeil covers which feature a scatter of colored pencils or tidy yellow pencils lined up in a row. A real pencil nestled in the middle of each cover’s composition! The colored pencils notebook has 144 pages of blank paper, and the yellow notebook has 144 pages of graph paper inside. Both notebooks measure 8.5 inches high by 6 inches wide. Best of all, purchasing this clever, utilitarian notebook from MoMA helps to support the museum’s work, too.

Hidden Pencil Notebooks in colored or yellow, $14.95 each, www.moma.org.