Joshua Talbot’s got some kittens to give away. And he said the nicest thing one could say about getting memo books in the mail:

It reminds me of when I received my Jedi Fan Club pack in the mail. Or being a Cub Scout and getting a new badge.

I’d take a kitten, Joshua, but I’m allergic and I already have two anyway. I could ask Drap, but I don’t know how Gary feels about cats. Man, they’re cute, though. Aw, look at that, just crying out for some misspelled Impact Bold.

(For anyone disappointed that this post had nothing to do with Kim Gordon and Julia Cafritz, here’s this.)

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We just printed a small run of co-branded Field Notes for our good friends over at An Event Apart. They really liked our Field Notes and thought it would be a great idea to give them away to their event attendees. We couldn’t agree more, so we printed their logo on the back of the notebooks and sent them on their way. They were so happy, they just placed another order.

Customize Field Notes for your event, company, website, youth soccer team, birdwatching club–you name it, we’ll custom-print it. We’ll accept custom orders anytime, but since we’re going on press soon to print more AEA books, the economies of scale come into play and now would be a great time to order and save some cash.

Picture it: your logo or design on Field Notes memo books. How great is that? Contact Michele for more information on customization.

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“Trip Out” with some of Portland, Oregon’s own Jason Levins, and his “explorations of the mind” that somehow made it into his Field Notes. Hard to say what’s really going on here. Maybe some brilliance. Maybe some madness. You be the judge.

We try to keep things “down to earth” as much as possible. You know, simple ink on paper kind of stuff, right? For our brothers soaring in the 4th dimension: Field Notes can take on even the wildest of metaphysical wanderings.

Jason, for graph paper’s sake, be careful out there, in there, and whatever astral plane you are on right now.

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When we started this whole mess, Aaron said he’d been collecting farm notebooks for a while, and Jim and I figured he had a dozen or two, never realizing that the guy has “piles and piles” of these things. While he organizes his thoughts and collection, Here’s another of the scans he originally sent us, a three-color, 5.75″x3″ beauty from Armour Fertilizers. Most of these companies put out a new memo book annually, often with similar-but-distinctive covers from year to year, this one’s from 1957. I like the slogan “More Farmers use…” not only because it’s capitalized strangely, but because it implies popularity without any actual comparison. Do more Farmers use ARMOUR than other brands? Or do more Farmers use it than the number of Farmers that used it last year? Or do more Farmers use it than Orthopedic Surgeons? Who knows? But I’m on my way to Sal’s Farm Supply to pick up some Vertagreen, whatever it is.

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Mike “Midnight Sun” Kirkpatrick knows how to use his Field Notes. The proof is in the pages above. No real estate goes unused. The idea of these things getting used way up north on those wild tundras sits very well with all of us at Field Notes. Our hearts swell with pride. Way to go, Mike. Keep up the good usage.

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Andy Beach of the Reference Library sent in the beauty above a couple days back, and man, it is rife with greatness.

Page detail: “When in My Carhartt Gloves and “Overall Uniform” I Have an Easy Conscience as I Know They Are Honestly Made by a Manufacturer Who Is Honest with His Employees.”

The same sentiment applies to Field Notes, people. Same deal.

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More friendly fire over the last couple days:

Relaxed Homeskool wrote up a lovely review, though we should point out that we’re fairly certain our erstwhile competitors do not actually slaughter moles to produce their notebooks. Naz linked us up, which isn’t surprising because his wife is at this very moment putting labels on outbound packages of Field Notes. Retrophisch also said “hi,” and the mighty Notebookism gave us a second shout-out.

In perhaps the most specific (and Teutonic) link we’ve seen, Field Notes have, in a roundabout sorta way, been suggested as an essential item for WWI German troops visiting the Western Front. We’re waiting for a call from The Kaiser any minute now.

Sooner or later, people will stop stroking our egos and we’ll write something more useful/insightful in this space. Promise.

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Before P-Funk, there was G-Funk, “America’s Greatest Hybrid.” I’m not sure where to start heaping love on this design, you’ve got the phrase “Corn Data Notebook” which is maybe the greatest combination of three words in the English language, ever. You’ve got the essential map of the U.S. of A. with a signpost obliterating North Dakota. You’ve got Futura. You’ve got some sort of corn explosion. And best of all, you’ve got the “Call to Action” (”plant them!”) that clients love so much. This notebook is consistently good, year after year, right down to the pen squiggle resting on the cross-stroke of the “G.”

UPDATE: Check out Americana Resources’ Farm Related Paper Collectibles. Drap, have you seen this!? It’s like the MoOM of Funk’s G Hybrid Corn Data Notebooks.

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Here’s a Florida contractor’s promotional memo book. Them’re some rounded corners, boy. It was nice of William F. Buckley to pose for the cover illustration.

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Here’s our first entry into our gallery of vintage memo books. Drap has a few shoeboxes full of these things, each is an inspiration in itself. We’ll post a new item from his collection every week, the complete collection, as it grows, can be seen here.

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