Field Notes America the Beautiful

America the Beautiful
Release Date:	First released::Spring 2013
Item No.:	Item No::FNC-18
Innards paper:	Paper used::Finch Paper Fine 70#T "Soft White"
Edition Size:	Edition size::15,000 packs
Official Page:	Field Notes America the Beautiful

Description

The inspiration for this set of memo books came from Aaron Draplin's collection of vintage memorabilia. The resulting edition was aimed to pay tribute to the cross-country-road-trip spirit of America, via the vibrant full-color aesthetic of the beautifully-roughhewn memo books and road maps of the 1960s. Notable features of the design includes oversaturated photos, printed on a purposefully out-of-register screen, to harken back to the intended era.

Colorful stock photography of “Spacious Skies,” “Amber Waves,” and “Mountains Majesty” are reproduced in full-color on heavyweight, off-white, Tango-coated one-side covers, and stuffed with 48 pages of burly Finch “Soft White” paper ruled with “Looseleaf Blue” ink. They’re bound together with shiny copper staples, and as always: they’re manufactured in the very nation they celebrate.

The packs also included an "America the Beautiful" water-transfer decal (FNC-18a) to be applied to your camper or cross-country vehicle of choice.

Specifications

01. Proudly printed by the good people of Service Graphics, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

02. Cover: Mead Westvaco Tango Coated-One-Side blanks with a dirty 100-line-screen 4-color halftone, printed a little out of register on purpose with soy-based Toyo ink. Inside cover hit hard with a 1-color application of “Blood Red” soy-based Toyo ink.

03. Innards: Finch Paper Fine 70#T “Soft White,” with a 1-color application of “School Notebook Cyan” soy-based Toyo ink.

04. Cover printed on a Mitsubishi Diamond Series 40" 6-color printing press.

05. Innards printed on a Miller TP104 28" × 40" 2-color printing press.

06. Bound by a Heidelberg ST350 “Stitchmaster” 8-pocket saddle stitcher, using (X)-gauge copper wire.

07. Corners precisely rounded to ⅜" (9.5mm) by a CRC round-corner machine.

08. Ruled lines: ¼" (6.4mm).

09. Memo book dimensions are 3½" × 5½" (89mm × 140mm).

10. Field Notes uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.

11. All Field Notes memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.