The courtyard is just one of many open spaces that will be highly utilized—in the non-winter months anyway. Concrete worked well with developing the language of FlatPak. The second level is a wood panel that can be clad in corrugated metal or cedar—different layers that can be plugged in like covers on your cellphone.

Polan's Collection of Paper Options features twelve hand-drawn patterns, prompting new and inventive creations every time you turn the page.

This set of three pens from Korean design brand CLIP PEN has an innovative detail—the pens can be clipped onto a section of papers or a folder, or even used as a bookmark. The pen made its design debut at London Design Week 2014.

Japanese stationery company Postalco's spiral-bound notebooks (seen here in Size A6) have a water-resistant, starch-pressed cotton fabric cover, so rest assured, they will outlast any great adventures that you embark on. Available in red, light blue, and navy blue. $25

kitHAUS prides itself on its stylish, modern prefabs that are built on-site by a team of company employees. Their patented aluminum system takes only a few days to construct, and the homes boast superior energy efficiency, owing to insulated floors, walls, and ceilings as well as glazed doors and windows.

Moleskine has debuted a new white notebook in its online store. Inspired by the concept of a black canvas, as well as icons like the Beatles' The White Album, Le Corbusier’s white blocks, and Malevich’s pivotal White on White canvases, this fresh twist on the classic 192 acid-free page notebook is sure to be an instant classic.

Repurposed shipping containers serve as the primary materials for the houses and working spaces designed by ShelterKraft. The company's designs focus primarily on disaster relief projects, drawing from existing steel frames and skins in order to reduce the use of new materials. Their buildings range from small cargo cottages of 160-square-feet to 700-square-foot warehouses for industrial facilities. Athough they come with electric power, heat and plumbing, they generally require a pre-existing concrete foundation and a local contractor to ensure a smooth, safe installation.

Our tranquil excursion would require this bundle of camping-themed notebooks by Subtle Acts for jotting down nature-induced inspirations. $28. Photo by James Ransom.

The unfinished sketches that populate the pages of Geary's Elevated Journal leave space for your own artistic expressions.

The utility and durability of the Spiral Journal, which features discarded watercolors, make it perfect for producing colorful creations of your own.

Linda Geary is cofounder of the Painting Expanded Symposium, a program that promotes discussions around contemporary painting. Her series of vibrant notebooks aims to continue that conversation. The Stack Book contains 32 color swatches that formed the basis of one of Geary’s collaborative art projects and encourage you to get creative, too.

The Archimetric Notebook and Drawing Tool Set is an elegant notebook designed for architects, designers, or anyone who is interested in scaled drafting. The pages of the notebook are ruled at a scale of 1/100° and 1/50° for precision drafting, and the book also includes blank pages for notes or freehand sketches. The grey pages are lined with white, making the graphs almost appear to fade away from the pages. The result is a surface that sets drawings apart form the lines, letting them stand on their own. The Arhimetric set also includes drawing instruments, including a scale ruler, protractor and t-square, and a bookmark.

The Fake-Jacket Journal, also by Russell, comes with two reversible jackets, which allow you to present four different faces to the world depending on your mood.

Russell's Drawn to Music notebook, which features a built-in record sleeve, encourages you to doodle while listening to your favorite tunes. A line at the bottom of each page prompts you to note what you’re listening to as you draw.

Back to school means new notebooks. These from Present & Correct (£5.50 apiece) sports a metallic slash across the cover; the orange has lined paper within while the stone is dotted.

The Petra and Maya pendants made from Italian parchment by UK-based brand Foldability.

Grace Hawthorne of Paper Punk led a weekend-long interactive exhibit in which attendees used pieces from her Urban Fold Kit to build a giant, paper metropolis.

Paper Diamond Marble - Set Of 3 We love these paper diamond ornaments from Ferm Living. They are just intriguing enough to be unique but not over the top. Perfect for a clean, minimal, and modern holiday.

Shelter-Kit provides a range of structures, including cabins, barns, garages, and workshops. The New Hampshire-based company produces custom kits in a range of styles and sizes, and 85% of their kits are assembled by clients with no previous building experience. New small homes or second units are customized to meet the needs of individual customers, who can browse the company’s website to view floor plans, images, and final product ideas. Customers can even send over a draft floor plan of their own design.

DIY Synth Kit by Technology Will Save Us, $40 at techwillsaveus.com Technology Will Save Us makes even the most technical doodads simple to assemble. Their DIY Synth Kit is no different, teaching the joys of electronic music by empowering users to build their own instrument from scratch.

A perfect gift for any budding photographer, this pinhole camera kit even includes darkroom chemicals to process your photos. Even comes with a nifty booklet with instructors and the history of photography. Snap away, snappers! $40

Cubelets Robot Kit, from $160 at momastore.org Featured in the 2011 MoMA exhibition Talk to Me, each Cubulet cube has its own function, such as generating movement or detecting changes in the environment. They click together to form a robot with its own unique behavior.

A preassembled kit of parts allows users to build a music synthesizer.

The thin Corrugated Notebook from Nomess Copenhagen is available in white, black, and brown, and features contrast binding and a bookmark ribbon. With a cover made of corrugated cardboard, the notebook has a pleasant, tactile feel, and the slim silhouette makes it a good choice for commuting.

Geodesic domes were first popularized by R. Buckminster Fuller in the mid-twentieth century, but the extremely strong and stable structures have since been developed into sustainable, wind-resistant models. Oregon Dome produces wind and hurricane resistant geodesic dome kits in thousands of plans, sizes, and shapes. Each can easily be built by the customers themselves, no special equipment necessary.

Public Supply’s Dot Paper Notebook is designed with simplicity in mind. The five- by eight-inch notebook includes 96 pages of dot paper, inviting just enough order to focus penmanship, but enough open space for users to feel free to sketch or create their own note-taking system.

Jason Polan, known for his ambitious project to draw every person in New York City, has created a series of journals that help people take note of the world around them. The ultra-portable Observation Notebook features eye-shaped cutouts on the back cover, making it ideal for conducting covert surveillance.

When it comes to inspiring great work, look no further than Charles and Ray Eames. This bold notebook features a numerical pattern made famous by the pair, and includes an interior pocket, bookmark, and elastic band for keeping the notebook secure.

A view of the interior pages of the Archimetric Notebook, showing one of the drafting tools.

With 272 pages ruled at 1/100° and 1/50° scale, as well as others left blank for freehand sketches, the Archimetric Notebook and Drawing Tool Set is the ideal place to devise your renovations, additions, and more. This set includes a scale ruler, protractor, t-square, and bookmark.

This Marimekko Notebook is defined by its bold floral pattern. Named Siirtolapuutarha—the Finnish word for allotment—the print is inspired by the community gardens allotted to city dwellers in Helsinki. This notebook contains 96 ruled pages, an interior pocket for stowing loose papers, and an elastic band to keep the notebook secure.