![](http://fieldnotesbrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/3123646821_207edd8c171.jpg "Zoe Thatcher\'s \\"Guide to All Brothers.\\"")
“If your brother is acting normal, he is probably thinking up a very bothersome plan.”
Geoff says “this artwork shows what an 11-year-old can do on a long drive with pencil, a Field Notes Memo Book and a little creativity:” Zoe’s “Guide to All Brothers.” Awesome.
We’ve been busy adding dots to our map of FIELD NOTES retail locations, and we’ve added a new world map to show the spread of the FIELD NOTES empire outside North America.
Please welcome some of our new retailers, near and far:
The Cool Store in New Zealand. (It’s Summer there!)
City’Super in Hong Kong. (Five locations!)
Magma in London. (Two locations!)
Casualpoet in Singapore. (Can I deliver them in person?)
Notre Dame Photo Cage (They don’t have a web site!)
Grand in Somerville, Massachusetts! (That’s outside Boston!)
As always, our full list of 35 North American and 11 worldwide retailers awaits you here. And if you’re into the whole internet thing, you can procure FIELD NOTES right here on our site.
Retailers! Can you imagine the marvelous rush when you see a gleaming white dot representing your establishment on our handsome map? Dream no more, simply Email Michele.
Our esteemed pal Douglas Wilson of On Paper Wings teaches at Missouri State University. Each fall, he hands out FIELD NOTES to his Advanced Typography students and posts the awesome results on Flickr. The ‘08 crop feature the green cutting mat background, ‘07 are on the wood grain. Thanks for sharing, Doug!
Products · Vintage Memo Book Archive:
Sure, we love old memo books. We like the old type, the aged paper and the ancient handwriting that might populate a page. Ghosts. So many ghosts.
And we also love the somewhat more contemporary examples from the 70s and 80s. Come one, come all. All have a home with Field Notes.
“Trusted Family Seedsmen.” We like the sound of that. Good work if you can get it.
Just in time for the Holiday Rush, our 18-Monther calendar shows up in ReadyMade magazine! We’re in there with some heavy hitters in the calendar world, so, much pride is felt.
There’s only 24 shopping days left, and this amount was totaled up using said calendar, so, you know, it gets the job done. Buy now, and plan up your whole 2009, and first quarter of 2010. Just like that.
Requests for a variety of FIELD NOTES shapes, sizes, and contents have been flowing in for months now. A handful of people have suggested FIELD NOTES day planners, and we just might roll that out for 2010, but Britt Leach of Veritas: Any Day Now has appointments to organize NOW, so he armed himself with a handsome old-school pica gauge (any straight edge will work) and and took matters in his own hands:
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Hey, gang, we’ve been reminding you for weeks that FIELD NOTES make great gifts, and Positive Space agrees, naming us to their list of “30 Holiday Gift Ideas for Creatives or Geeks.”
Our new FIELD NOTES KIT is a hit! Thanks mucho for the writeups Hipsterist, Selectism, Much Ado about Everything, and Mr. Weatherbee!
Mike Krieger is the latest fellow to accidentally run his FIELD NOTES through the washing machine. We don’t recommend that, but we’re as surprised as anyone by their resiliency to agitated soapy water. And at least Mike got a great background photo out of it.
Our old friend P.J. Chmiel points out that his photo of his nightstand at the Skyline Motel might be the very first appearance of FIELD NOTES on Flickr. (Is that the rare Mark I model? We need to write up an Anorak FIELD NOTES Spotters’ Guide one of these days). PJ’s Photo is certainly not the last, see many more in the FIELD NOTES IN ACTION Flickr pool.
Best for last: the mighty John Hodgman poses with FIELD NOTES after recording the latest episode of “Emotional-Hygene” audio journal You Look Nice Today. Hodgman very expertly raises the bar on all “celebrity-cornered-into-posing-with-a-most-likely-unfamiliar-product” photos, and we thank him (and YLNT) profusely.
None of us like to think about catastrophe, but when emergency strikes, will you be prepared? Sure, you have bandages, water, dog food, and duct tape, but in a no-internet situation, how will you blog?
FIELD NOTES BRAND stays up late worrying about such things, and we’ve created the perfect solution: The FIELD NOTES KIT. THE KIT contains:
That’s $31.98 worth of sweet FIELD NOTES goodness for only $26.95, you save FIVE DOLLARS!
This is as good a time as any to point out that FIELD NOTES (and THE KIT specifically) make great holiday gifts! Whether you’re shopping for your most intimate soul mate, your mother, or your mailman, anyone capable of scribbling can find a use for FIELD NOTES pens, pencils, and memo books.
I don’t know what a “meat cross” is, but I do know this, I won’t be messing with the chickens of Hubbard Farms anytime soon. Scary little birds, man. Yikes.
The current (December 2008) issue of HOW Magazine features a collection of designer-friendly office supplies selected by one of our earliest Retail Locations (and fellow Futura-philes), OFFICE of Portland, Oregon. Needless to say, FIELD NOTES made the cut. Thanks OFFICE, thanks HOW, we love the universe, we love our listeners, love, bang, crash-a-wocka-wocka.
