For the minimalist in your life, the Japanese company MD Paper epitomise the subtlety, elegance and simplicity of good Japanese stationery, concentrating on the quality of material over branding or printed design. Here are two notebooks in A5 and A6 with simple and clean off-white covers embossed with the MD Paper logo.

Also shown is Seed’s Super Gold Eraser and MD Paper Pencil Drawing Kit, containing 5 pencils in different graphite hardness, 5 pencil toppers to protect the point when not in use and a sharpener.