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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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Partners

A Dream Project, Literally

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our latest collaboration, the “Dreamers’ Bundle” and “Dream Journals,” created with East Fork Pottery of Asheville, North Carolina. – Nov. 18th, 2024

Staple Day 14 Quote: Blue Jays have a sense of humor. I have watched them play tag with small hawks and their notes of derision when a hawk missed its swoop, were as close to laughter as birds can voice.

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Staple Day 14

TLDR Version: Partners, Laughing Jays, Making Mistakes, Register Redux, James & Calvin, Typecast, Shopapalooza. – Nov. 12th, 2024

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Field News

Creative Characters

Jim Coudal guested on Monotype’s Creative Characters Podcast this week. – Oct. 25th, 2024

Staple Day 13: If I posted it here you'd miss the rush of excitement that comes from reading it in its proper place, concluding a poem that in a few short lines tells the story of childhood, a marriage, and pretty much the entire history of American West.

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Staple Day 13

TLDR Version: Who Knows Best, Oh Shenandoah, A Real Rarity, Left Unsaid, Your Hood, Duly Noted, Visitors. – Oct. 23rd, 2024

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HQ Events

Open House Chicago This Weekend

We’re taking part in the fabulous Open House Chicago program for exploring spaces in the city that are not usually open to the public this weekend. HQ is part of the Near West Side Circuit and we’ll be open from 10-4 on both Saturday and Sunday. – Oct. 18th, 2024

Staple Day 12 Excerpt - We are grateful people feel strongly enough about the brand to let us know what they'd like to see next. Once in a while however something hits our inbox like a bolt out of the blue.

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Staple Day 12

TLDR Version: An Introduction, Lion and River, In the In-Box, Follow the Lines, This and That, C’mon By. – Sep. 25th, 2024

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