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.

Leslie Trosset, mom of four kids between the ages of 8 and 16, says the composition notebook is the number-one thing that her kids never use. She says, “I spend a small fortune on school supplies each ...

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 ...