March 12 – Jack Kerouac, author, painter, poet, traveler (b. 1922)
Girl Guides (later, the Girl Scouts) Formed (1912) – One of the “Real Big Days” listed on the Field Notes Calendar
A year of COLORS in one minute
Our sixth limited edition of FIELD NOTES COLORS memo books is available now! The PACKET of SUNSHINE features three vibrant yellow notebooks packaged in a custom seed envelope, complete with marigold seeds and growing instructions. The FIELD NOTES e-mail list got first dibs (sign up to your left), but there are still a very limited number of individual 3-Packs and COLORS subscriptions available to the general public.
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You may remember we made some custom FIELD NOTES for our friends at Threadless and they ran a contest on flickr a coupl’a weeks ago. One of the ten winners, Kyle Kastranec, posted some photos of his winnings and shared his winning entry:
So I answered the question of how I would use a custom 3-pack of Threadless Field Notes with this:
I will use the first to plan a chest painting for every single Cleveland Browns home game next season.
I will use the second to document my vintage t-shirt collection (via precise color facsimiles) for future generations to envy.
And I will use the third to help me memorize the name and placement of every human organ in case I decide to become a doctor.
We will certainly follow up with Kyle to see the finished notebooks, especially the chest painting sketches, matched to photos, matched to Browns’ final scores. Thanks, Kyle!
We’ve been crazy busy with custom editions lately. Aside from a few “logo jobs” like these, we did Kids’ “Neon Ice Pop” FIELD NOTES for J.Crew’s “CrewCuts” kids’ store, the aforementioned Threadless books, and a couple other colorful runs we can’t talk about yet, not to mention our upcoming limited-edition Spring 2010 COLORS set, which will be available soon for presale to our e-mail list. Sign up at the top of the left column of this very page!
As always, drop Michele a line if you’re interested in customized FIELD NOTES!
BIGGER, THICKER, BETTER!
Our new FIELD NOTES 18-Monther calendars are in, and shipping out of FIELD NOTES Midwest. Act now!
01. BIGGER: 8″ x 12″!
02. THICKER: 60pt Chipboard! NOT TO BE MESSED WITH!
03. BETTER: Chart the next 18 months with us. This one won’t let you down.
04. 18-MONTHER: Last couple months of 2009, and the first six months of 2011. Free. Just because we can.
As well as our expanded list of “REAL BIG DAYS” on the back. It’s all there, compiled by the impressive Steve Delahoyde. Some dates in December to look forward to:
Dec. 16th – Philip K. Dick, author (b. 1928)
Dec. 22nd – Lenny Bruce First Convicted of Obscenity (1964)
Dec. 30th – Edwin Hubble Announces Existence of Other Galaxies (1924)
Get one before they are gone!
FIELD NOTES No. 2 Woodgrain Pencil Six-Packs are back in stock! Order now!
FIELD NOTES COLORS subscriptions starting with “Grass Stain Green” are sold out. Limited Edition COLORS notebooks are released quarterly. 3-packs usually sell out in presale on our mailing list, the rest go to subscribers. Either way, Fall COLORS are coming soon (mid-September!), so be sure to join the mailing list. (Top left column… see it? good!)
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. “Grass Stain Green” FIELD NOTES COLORS subscriptions have also sold out. (You still haven’t joined our mailing list? Do it now, top left corner of the site).
You can subscribe to the COLORS memo book series whenever a new color is released, but to start your subscription with the very first (and thus most collectible) color, you better move fast, only four Butcher Orange subscriptions remain. Butcher Orange is the “Love Buzz” 7-inch of FIELD NOTES. Would you believe me/when I tell you/You’re the queen of my heart?
300 BUTCHER ORANGE 3-packs sold out in 27 hours last week. The remaining packs are being offered as part of our FIELD NOTES COLORS subscription service. Only 100 subscriptions will be sold, and they’re selling briskly, here’s how to score two 3-Packs of BUTCHER ORANGE and the next three quarterly limited-edition FIELD NOTES.
As promised, today we’ve got some new product for you. FIELD NOTES 3-packs are shipping now with your choice of Graph, Ruled, or Plain paper, and if you can’t make up your mind, we’ve got a Mixed 3-Pack with one of each. We’ve even got new goodies to ship out with ‘em. It’s like the first day of school up in here.
Regarding BUTCHER ORANGE: 500 3-packs were printed. 300 of them are gone. We just sent out an email to subscribers about how to score the rest. If there are any left tomorrow morning, we’ll post about it here. I don’t know what we’ve got to do to get you on our mailing list. If you love FIELD NOTES, please do yourself a favor and sign up. It’s nothing but good stuff.
Two vanloads of new FIELD NOTES arrived Friday and today, including our limited-edition “Butcher Orange” version that sold out in preorder last week. We’re shipping those out right now, and we’re getting ready to unveil some new products any day now. In the meantime, check out Aaron’s new “belly band” design.
Again, if you missed out on the “Butcher Orange” preorder, there’s still hope, stay posted.
