We asked our Graphic Arts teacher, Mr. Bedell, to demonstrate how to use the new Dry Transfer Edition for spring.

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The inside covers and interior pages of the Balsam Fir notebooks were offset-printed in “Wet Bark Black” at Envision Graphics in Bloomingdale IL, then the covers were sent to Diecrafters in historic Cicero, IL for hot foil stamping. This is FIELD NOTES’ first foray into foil stamping, and the process is shown in the video above. The press is a Kluge EHE 14×22, manufactured by Brandtjen & Kluge in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Hot foil stamping is fairly similar to letterpress printing (as seen in our Raven’s Wing video) but instead of ink, colored or metallic foil (or holograms!) are fused onto the paper with a heated die, In this case, a snow-white matte non-metallic ‘foil’ was used, rolls of the material can be seen mounted above the printer. Each roll was aligned to a specific print position on the sheet to minimize wasted foil. The finished covers went back to Bloomingdale to be cut, assembled, bound, trimmed, round-cornered, belly-banded, and shrink-wrapped, and they’ll be in your hands soon!

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“OK, everybody make sure to use the bathroom, it’s a long drive and I dont want to be stopping every half hour.” A Field Notes Road Trip for the Summer 2010 “County Fair” Edition.

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To celebrate the first year of Field Notes COLORS we’ve put together this little video. The video was made with a still camera, some moss and a bunch of props but it was when the band Margaret Helen King (iTunes) from Canberra, Australia let us use their song Amen that it really came together. Thanks for that.

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