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Staple Day 23

August 18, 2025 by Jim

Staple Day 23 - We love exploring relatively obscure chapters in the history of American publishing, design, and printing, and then translating them into modern products that can tell their own story.

TLDR Version: 50, Noted, Mystery, Independents’ Day, Mapping Time, Commonplace, Mid-Step, Relics.

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HQ Events

Pop-Up Dinner at HQ

To kick off another summer of their Urban Farm Dinner Series, Big Delicious Planet is hosting a fun offsite Ode to Spring pop-up dinner at Field Notes HQ in Chicago. Thursday, April 18th from 6-9pm at 401 North Racine. Plenty of parking is available, and there will be some Field Notes surprises too. – Apr. 3rd, 2024

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Products

Notes from the Lakefront

We reached out to our pal, the multi-talented Jenna Blazevich, proprietor of Vichcraft, to create the art for our 2024 subscription box. Jenna proposed creating a papel picado-style illustration and we loved the idea. She came back with this beautiful, intricate image of a couple folks enjoying Chicago’s greatest asset. – Mar. 21st, 2024

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Field News

Ten Out of Half

Towards the bottom of the mail we instructed buyers to add the phrase “COUNTMEIN” to the “notes” field when ordering, to be included in a drawing to win one of ten long-sold-out, special “Lunacy” Edition 4-Packs. – Feb. 23rd, 2024

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What Are You Reading?

This month’s Staple Day Newsletter included a quick photo contest asking folks to take a shot of their current Field Notes with a book they’ve enjoyed recently. Here are the winners. Get on our mail list to take part in future contests. – Feb. 13th, 2024

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Field Notes in Action

Creative In Residence Andrea Slusarski

Welcome to another entry in our Field Notes Commons Creator in Residence series. In addition to re-sharing content from the Field Notes community, the Commons periodically invites creatives, artists, writers, and/or generally exceptional people to take over the Instagram feed and share their work, tell their stories, and show us how their Field Notes notebooks occupy a place in what they do. – Feb. 6th, 2024

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Special Offers

Notes for Lazy Lovers

Buy anything and while supplies last, we’ll include a special, unavailable-anywhere-else, “Notes for Lazy Lovers” Memo Book and Pencil FREE with your order. No coupon codes. No minimums. No bull. Heck, you don’t even need to be aware of the deal. If you buy something today (2/9/24), you’re in. – Jan. 24th, 2024

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