iPad: Japanese retailer Muji has decided to adapt some of their real-world products for iOS, bringing a Google-syncing calendar, a notebook, and an awesome travel assistant to your iPad.

The other Altman recommendation is the “Muji 0.36 or 0.37” in dark blue ink. After some exploration on the Muji site, I think what he means is the Muji Gel Ink Cap Ballpoint Pen in 0.38mm .

Japanese retail company, Muji, has released three new productivity apps for the iPad: Muji Calendar, a scheduler app; Muji Notebook, a notebook app; and Muji to Go, a travel assistance app.

Muji A5 double-ring dot notebook. $9. Amazon. Writer, designer, and co-director of the design archive Pink Essay David Eardley is another Muji fan.

“I use the Muji thread-bound A6 notebook. “For under $3, it’s the perfect thing for capturing quotes, notes, and ideas without feeling so precious that I’m afraid to make a mark.

In case you haven’t heard, Muji opened on Newbury Street, right next to Urban Outfitters. While both offer a smattering of everything, Muji revels in a pared down palette of utility. Its ...

Muji Notebook A5 5mm-grid 30sheets — Pack of 5 books. $16 Muji is clean and simple, and that’s exactly what architects typically prefer. It’s the opposite of sparkly.

Muji Notebook in an Indigo Cover by Ranpudo (Japan) These plain kraft-paper-cover journals are filled with the kind of supersmooth paper I love.

My life is pinched and sliced into series of lists, printed neatly in Muji notebooks with pretty pens and good intentions or punched unsleepingly into iPhone notes at 3am. I have been known to ...

Check out more photos of the notebook after the jump. The Chronotebook just won an Muji International Design Award , and weblog Cool Hunting reports it'll be on sale in the Muji store in the ...

By Paul Glader TOKYO – Western consumers obsessed with pens, notebooks and knick-knacks from the Japanese retailer Muji may be surprised to learn more about how the company winds up with its ...

Recyled paper notebook. (MUJI) Donald Chong, architect, Williamson Chong “Sometimes, every once in a while, I literally say, ‘We need to take a Muji approach.’ ...