Another season, another great FIELD NOTES “COLORS” limited edition. This time, we kicked it up a notch: the new books feature a letterpress-printed French Pop-Tone “Gumdrop Green” 100# cover and graph paper with light green rules to match.

As with our first two colors, “Grass Stain Green” 3-Packs were offered for presale to our mailing list and sold out in a matter of hours (You still haven’t joined our mailing list? Do it now, top left corner of the site).

But fret not, “Grass Stain Green” is still available via our FIELD NOTES COLORS subscription. Only 100 subscriptions are available, and going fast (the first two subscriptions sold out quickly, too!) Here’s how to get two 3-Packs of “Grass Stain Green” and reserve your next three quarterly limited-edition FIELD NOTES (and some other goodies).

We were surprised and honored to find FIELD NOTES highlighted today in Kevin Kelly’s “Cool Tools”, along with a DIY lamination tip. Thanks for the kind words, John and Elon, we really appreciate being included in such great company!

While we’re typing here, we should probably let you all know that the summer “COLORS” limited edition FIELD NOTES will go on sale in the very near future. Subscribers, your two 3-packs will ship automatically. Mailing list subscribers will get first dibs on the rest. Our first two COLORS editions sold out before we offered them to the public, and these are the coolest yet, so if you’re not on our list, sign up now.

Coudal Partners’ Steve Delahoyde was in China last month documenting a writer and artist exchange program. Steve used FIELD NOTES to keep track of his 40 hours of footage across multiple locations. He snapped this photo while on a tour of Beijing National Stadium, the “Bird’s Nest” of 2008 Summer Olympics fame. “Right after I took that, there were four people who came out in gigantic, inflated costumes, dressed up like the olympic mascots. The costumes were way too big to move around or do much of anything, so they just danced around in these slow box steps to looping techno music. It was not much of anything, but all the tourists went bats**t insane for it.”

Field Notes & Static Clings from Keegan Jones on Vimeo.

The guys at Alamofire unpacking a shipment from Field Notes HQ. If your company, Explorers’ Club or street gang needs a custom run of memo books, just give Michele a shout and she’ll hook you up, after all, “Michele’s your lady at Field Notes Brand.” Use the contact link above.

Big thanks to everyone who sent in a scan or photo of Field Notes in the latest issue of ReadyMade. Joseph sent us the above photo snapped by Casey Myers. Keep an eye on your inbox guys, we’re sending you and everyone else who entered before midnight Chicago time last night a free pack of stuff. And be sure to follow Field Notes on Twitter so you won’t miss out on other random mini-contests.

If you have been thinking of becoming a Field Notes retailer, today just might be the perfect day to make it happen. We’re just sayin’, today’s the day. Write Michele at wholesale@fieldnotesbrand.com.

Thanks to Seth Neilson of Wasa Industries for this photo, which has nothing to do with anything, other than looking awesome.

View Michele’s New York Ramble in a larger map

Last week I headed off to New York City to check out the National Stationery Show. The show is huge and takes two days to really walk the whole thing, which of course, led to terribly mangled feet. But what’s a little pain in the search for knowledge, right?

Since I was in town, I took some time and set off on a tour to meet some of our FIELD NOTES retailers and get some shots of our products in the wild, on store shelves. (You can follow along on the map above)
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Dutch writer/photographer Jan van Dam writes

FIELD NOTES easily match with fresh Sicilian seafood. I took this on our holiday in Palermo, Italy just two weeks ago.

Thanks, Jan! Aside from having the most Dutch name ever, you have excellent taste in memo books. And you’re making us very hungry.

Daily Thoughts with Cory Grove from YoBeat Magazine on Vimeo.

Snowboarding photographer and team manager Cory Grove gives FIELD NOTES and our Aaron Draplin a shout out in his YoBeat interview. Cory now runs Cobra Dogs, selling lunch on the slope-y parts of the Pacific Northwest.