For lovers of letterpress
Field Notes is a brand in love with the history of American printing, publishing and graphic design. So, it’s no surprise that their latest series of notebooks was produced in collaboration with Hatch Show Print, a legendary letterpress print poster shop from Nashville, Tennessee. You know those great old country music concert posters? Yeah, these guys did those. The Field Notes concept was a three-poster public service campaign about effective poster design. Each poster yielded six colourful and strident pocket notebook covers: perfect for lovers of letterpress typography or just a bit of good ol’ fashioned Americana.
- 3-pack of pocket notebooks with covers inspired by classic American letterpress poster designs
- Pages feature ruled lines of 1/4" (6.4mm)
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm)
- Cover stock is Domtar Cougar 100#C “White” with a brute-force application of a variety of hand-mixed Kennedy oil-based inks, including “Just About Pantone 637.”
- Innards are Finch Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of “Actual Pantone 635” soy-based Toyo ink
- Outer cover printed over 32 hours at Hatch Show Print by Cory Wasnewsky with support from Nick Larson, in two passes on a 1942 Miehle 29 sheetfed press
- Inner cover/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
- Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
- Proudly printed by the good people of Hatch Show Print, Nashville, Tennessee, and Team Concept Printing, Carol Stream, Illinois
Ethically Sourced Materials - All of Field Notes paper suppliers are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an industry/environmental group that ensures paper is manufactured responsibly. Most of their cover papers come from the French Paper Co. in Niles, Michigan. French is a small family company with an impressive environmental record: they've run on hydroelectric power generated right at the plant for almost 100 years.
They say that ‘the devil is in the detail’. And when it comes to details, Field Notes take their pocket memo books and desktop notebooks very seriously. Paying meticulous attention to every element of the design and manufacturing process, they spend hundreds of hours thinking about the best cover stocks, paper grades and print inks. Heck, even the colours of the staples they use to saddle-stitch their notebooks are carefully chosen to complement each design.
The result is a collection of beautiful notebooks, all proudly printed and manufactured in the USA, that are the perfect place to scribble quick sketches, jot down ideas, record thoughts, make notes or compile lists. In fact, whatever you use them for, Field Notes books are the ideal companion for work, travel and everyday life. Write on.
