Some Field Notes are “FieldNotes-ier” than others, and this Winter 2023 edition, “Heartland,” might be the “Field Notes-iest” yet—after all, Field Notes were born of the vintage agricultural and industrial pocket memo books that FN co-founder Aaron Draplin had been collecting for years.
Artist and screen-printer Dan McCarthy, who illustrated three of the covers from the National Parks Series, has created a rural panorama across the covers of three books, each depicting a different time of day: sunrise, midday, and evening The results are a lovely combination of theme, color, and utility that really capture the spirit of American farm life.
Features
- Proudly printed by the good people of Team Concept Printing, Carol Stream, Ill.
- Cover: Domtar Cougar 100#C “White,” with a thick, brute force, 4-color application of process soy-based Toyo inks.
- Innards: Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of “Big Sky” soy-based Superior ink.
- Cover and innards printed on a Komori GL 640L 40" 6-color UV offset press.
- Bound with a Horizon SPF-200L “Bookletmaker” stitcher with dual feeder towers, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
- Corners precisely rounded to 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
- Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
- FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
- All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A
- Limited Edition of 30,000 3-Packs.
