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Staple Day 23

August 18, 2025 by Jim

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

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Big Fans of Jim Moran

Our friend Jim Moran is retiring from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum next week. – Dec. 22nd, 2023

Field Notes Brand Books

2023 Holiday Gift Guides and Staff Picks

A listing of a few of the many media outlets who have included us in their end-of-year gift lists, and a few recommendations from the Field Notes crew. – Dec. 6th, 2023

Folks who clicked the link were instructed to add the phrase “COUNT ME IN” to the notes field of their orders to be included in a drawing to win one of 100 sold-out Quarterly Editions. – Nov. 30th, 2023

Field News

And a Cup of Joe

This month’s edition included a quick photo contest asking folks to take a shot of their current Field Notes and a cup of coffee, in a shop, outside, at a desk, or anywhere. – Nov. 16th, 2023

Field Notes

A Distant Relative

“I spotted this detail in the Diego Rivera mural currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and I thought you might be interested.” – Sep. 28th, 2023

In Action

A Sea of Fugliness

Last week we sent out our new Staple Day Field Notes monthly newsletter, and it included a contest in which we asked folks to show us their “rattiest, gnarliest, most beat up and trashed Field Notes Memo Book.” And, we immediately got swamped with photos of Memo Books in various states of distress. – Sep. 20th, 2023

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