Moleskine refers both to Moleskine notebooks, and the company Moleskine Srl which produces these notebooks. Moleskine notebooks have features and are designed to be similar to notebooks used by famous people such as: Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde and Vincent Van Gogh. Moleskine Srl produces a large lineup of notebooks, available in different sizes, lined, grid style or blank, as well as daily planner, travel guides and other limited edition notebooks.

Moleskine notebooks are designed in Italy. Most are produced in China, although some large format notebooks are produced in Turkey. The Moleskine trademark was created by Modo&Modo (a Milanese publisher) in 1997. SGCapital Europe purchased Modo&Modo in the fall of 2006 and created the company Moleskine Srl, which then acquired worldwide trademark rights to the Moleskine brand.

Moleskine Notebooks have an active fan community who have modified the notebooks in various ways, including laser etching or embossing the cover, making integrated pen holders, and even custom templates and pages to use in the notebooks.

The web site for Moleskine Srl is www.moleskine.com, and they also appear on various social networking sites.

The Moleskine web site lists the following styles of notebooks:

• Creating
• Drawing
• Exploring
• Organizing
• Painting
• Recording
• Sharing
• Travelling
• Writing

Moleskine notebooks generally come either blank, or with lines or a grid on the paper and come in 3 sizes which they call Pocket, Large, and Extra Large.

In addition to Notebooks, Moleskine Srl produces a line of travel books called City Notebooks, which are available for many cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

There was some controversy surrounding Moleskine notebooks when the parent company moved manufacturing to China in 2006. http://groups.google.com/group/Moleskinerie/browse_frm/thread/7135ef7d39fdf2e3?pli=1 The company has countered this controversy by posting a web page called Moleskine Quality which explains why they chose to have their products manufactured in China. http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/moleskine_quality.php

Moleskine Recipe Journal: On March 11 2010 the Moleskine Recipe Journal was announced. The Recipe Journal is part of the Passions line of products which includes several other types of journals. This journal includes 6 tabbed 'theme' sections and 80 blank labels to bend self adhesive icons to customize the journal.