You know me and any product touched by the hand of a contemporary artist always catches my eye. This fall, iconic leather brand Smythson will launch its Art Diary series with limited edition two-sized diaries created by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Gary Hume, and Rachel Whiteread. The leather-bound books incorporate the artists’ vision, with specialized ribbons and linings and will be available in a selection of leathers and colors. They will also include editorial picks from The Art Newspaper, highlighting art goings-on around the world to keep you up to date on all art exhibitions, auctions, and fairs happening in 2009. And, if having a chic book to store your most important dates wasn’t enough, all the proceeds from the sale of these limited editions will be donated to a charity selected by the artist.

Here is where the copy goes. The buttons above ^^ are just like word processor tools like Bold, align, etcYou can add images as well (But these need to live somewhere on the server). You can’t just upload images from your desktop. We can discuss this later in detail.

This is my first post for Art & Design