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Film Archive

variations on a theme

Sometimes we make a film inspired by a Quarterly Edition. Sometimes we make a film about how we manufactured a Quarterly Edition. And once in a while, we have a cool idea for a film and make a Quarterly Edition that fits with that. In any case, here they all are.

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Just Add Color

Premium paper for sketching surrounded by cover illustrations of four American cities that come to life when you color them in. The “Streetscapes” Edition for the Spring of 2023.

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Kraft Work

For the Winter of 2022 we’ve composed a quartet of 2-Packs highlighting the interplay of ink and paper, The “Kraft Plus” Edition.

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Rubbing Elbows with Ghosts

A visit with the Nashville’s venerable Hatch Show Print, our partner in the design and production of our Limited Edition for the Fall of 2022.

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Wish You Were Here

Re-imagining the past through vintage postcards to coincide with our 2022 Summer Release, “The Great Lakes” Edition. Thanks to Carl Sondrol for help with the score.

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Watch For It

A helpful guide to identifying the change of seasons for our latest Quarterly Limited Edition, “Signs of Spring.”

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Getting Slick

A bit of behind-the-scenes footage from our shoot for the “Ignition” Edition.

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4, 3, 2, 1...

Get organized and inspired with the Weekly Planners and Checklist Journal of The “Ignition” Edition.

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Hey Jack

A crafty treat for the season from our “Harvest” Edition.

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Follow the Lines

A visit with illustrator John Burgoyne, who created the cover art for our Fall 2021 limited release, The “Harvest” Edition.

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One Foot in Front of the Other

The journey is the destination. Start your next one with our latest limited edition for the Summer of 2021, the “Trailhead” Edition.

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Bits

We’ve made a lot of notebooks since we started our Quarterly Limited-Edition series, and for most of them we made a film too. Those went pretty well, mostly...

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99,999

After they've been used and filled up, every Field Notes is unique. We made the “Snowy Evening” Edition that way right out of the shrink-wrap.

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Miles and Miles

A compilation film, put together for an online trade show, featuring the song “Miles and Miles” by our new friends from Texas, The Vandoliers.

Limited Editions
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United States of Letterpress

Meet the Presses. A short documentary on the American Letterpress community, and the artists who made our Fall 2020 limited edition.

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Wire, Chipboard, and Steel

It's a hard-working memo book… Meet Field Notes’ “Heavy Duty” Edition from the Summer of 2020..

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Die

Uncovering our new notebooks specifically formatted for your D&D roleplaying adventures.

5E Gaming Journals
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About Face

Sparked by some discussion online, Bryan made this quick video of a simple hack to reverse the inside pages of our new “Heavy Duty” Edition.

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Make of These What You Will

The “Vignette” Edition Memo Books aren’t finished until you personalize them. Get busy.

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Riding to the New Year

We were too busy shipping Notebooks to send Christmas Cards, So we made this instead.

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A.V. Club

A slide show about the theme of our Winter Seasonal Limited Edition for 2019, the “Group Eleven” Edition.

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Impressions

Combining technology and craftsmanship to make “Autumn Trilogy,” our Fall 2019 Release.

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You and I

The Box Set is a collaboration between Field Notes and their favorite band, and it comes to you via Chicago.

Wilco x Field Notes
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Synchronicity

A enlightening trip to Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park for our Summer 2019 Release, the “National Parks” Series.

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Caution Ahead

We a little help, and without permission, we made this film about our Spring 2019 Release, the “Mile Marker” Edition.

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Dearest Liz
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Dearest Liz

You now have two choices when it comes to 6-Packs of our classic Field Notes Clic Pens.

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Deep Cover

Uncover the secrets of the “Clandestine” Edition. There is more to this limited edition than meets the eye.

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Marbling Process 1

Cary Suneja demonstrates the art of paper marbling to accompany our “End Papers” Edition.

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Marbling Process 2

Sevim Surucu demonstrates the art of paper marbling to accompany our “End Papers” Edition.

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Aswirl

19th Century hand-marbled patterns were reproduced for our “End Papers” Journals. Here’s a present-day demonstration of that craft.

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One Small Step for Notebooks

NASA has Cape Canaveral, Florida. We have Manchester, Iowa. Check what we did to, um, launch the “Three Missions” Edition.

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East is East and West is West

Two American coastlines, each embossed with foil over a 3-Pack. Also, a film dedicated to one, sorta dumb, idea.

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Jay, Haxley, & Two Squirrels with Flashlights

For the story behind the creation of our “Adventure of a 2-Pack” we chatted with Jay Ryan, the illustrator of Haxley’s adventures.

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…And Everything in Its Place

For Winter, The “Resolution” Edition features Checklist Journals and a Date Book. You know those people who always seem to have it all together? Now you can be one of them.

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Dropping Dimes

An homage to the beginnings of the mass-market American paperback industry, our “Dime Novel” Edition took 157 years to make.

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Flip the Script

Reverse the direction. Staple the other way. Break on through to the other side.

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Circle of Light

To build a fire is to build a community. Our summer release is the “Campfire” Edition. Buy a couple, then buy s’more.

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Inspiration

Ideas don’t follow a schedule. Be ready, with our new product, created with Bellroy.

Everyday Inspiration
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Cover Story

How to make a huge roll of custom-duplexed cover stock. Hint: It’s really messy.

The Pitch Black Series
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Let’s Get to Work

Not everything goes exactly right around HQ. Luckily we can keep track of our mistakes with these hard working, safety-yellow Memo Books

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2016 Annual Report

Moving around the calendar year to recap subscriber editions from 2016.

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Eternal, Shiny and Chrome

Foil, embossed covers, PUR-bound orange spines and extra stuff makes this edition slick and perfect for the holidays.

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Open for Business

Visit the Field Notes Shop in Chicago for all our products, press-sheets, rarities and nerdy design conversations.

Get in Here
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Just a Phase We’re Going Through

We built a lunar surface in the middle of our studio and rented a super-high-speed camera. Our Fall 2016 Edition is aptly titled “Lunacy”.

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“Stop the Presses!”

With the help of John Dickerson of Face the Nation on CBS, we reinvented an American classic, the Reporter’s Notebook.

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Extra Extra

We print our subscription boxes in-house to ensure they’re up to snuff. Check out this very brief film of the screen-printing process.

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Make a Note of It

We checked two items off our wish-list for this edition. Matching covers and interior pages and perforations. Now you can rip out a page cleanly for note taking and leaving.

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From Seed

Field Notes co-founder, Aaron Draplin has been “rescuing” vintage agricultural notebooks for years. Here he talks about what inspires us and shows selections from his flat files.

Online Memo Book Archive
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White Indoors, Blue in the Sun

Our Winter 2015 Quarterly Edition was printed with nearly-magical “photochromic” ink that changes color when exposed to sunlight. Indoors, they’re white, outdoors they’re blue!

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Oh, Shenandoah

The beauty of the Shenandoah Valley opens up to illustrate the words of Thomas Jefferson, for the release of our Quarterly Edition for the Fall of 2015.

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Handy Around the House

Our Quarterly Edition for the Summer of 2015 is a custom slip-case containing six memo books to help you tackle specific DIY projects. Your Dad called. He wants one.

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Wood Type Forever!

2015’s Spring Quarterly Edition was six months in the making and sales benefitted the fantastic Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin.

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Talkin’ Type

A chat between Hamilton Wood Type Museum's Jim Moran and Field Notes’ Aaron Draplin about all things type, design, and our Two Rivers edition.

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Fn Film Obsessives Guide Part 6
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Limited Edition Recap VI

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the Quarterly Editions for 2014: Shelterwood, Arts and Sciences, Unexposed, and Ambition.

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The Gilded Age

The very meta look at the making of the Ambition edition for Winter 2014, which included a stop at the gilding process the books underwent at Indianapolis’ own, Liberty Book and Bible.

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A Long Term Relationship

Using science to measure the value of a Field Notes year-long subscription. Proof!

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In Your Hands

A holiday film, “Write,” was produced and directed by Matthew James Thompson of North of New York for Field Notes Brand. Enjoy.

Matthew James Thompson
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Under Wraps

In the Fall of 2014, we wanted to keep our Unexposed edition a secret, so for the promotional film, we intentionally blacked out any view of the finished product and bleeped out all the descriptions of it.

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Arts and Sciences Edition

For 2014's Arts and Sciences edition, we made 7 short films, attempting to blend scientific study with artistic expression; the world all the better now for our dedicated exploration.

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Preparing for Flight

In conjunction with Adam Savage of Tested.com, we created the UAS Flight Log, to help track Unmanned Aerial System flights.

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Gimme Shelter

A look from start to finish, from tree to book, in the making of the innovative Spring 2014 release, the Shelterwood edition, shot in the wilds of Illinois and Wisconsin.

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Limited Edition Recap V

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the Quarterly Editions for 2013: America the Beautiful, Night Sky, Drink Local, and Cold Horizon.

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Winter Twilight

For the coming onset of the Winter of 2013, and the launch of the Cold Horizon edition, we thought it would be handy to offer up a valuable set of tips for surviving those colder months.

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Carry Out

Celebrating thoughtfully-brewed beer, esteemed local breweries, and favorite neighborhood watering holes. The Drink Local edition features two 3-Packs, Ales and Lagers.

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The Stars and Their Courses

For our Summer 2013 Quarterly Edition, Night Sky, we went to the Great Basin National Park in Nevada to make this short film. And a really long one. 6 Hours and 21 Minutes of “Anti” Time-Lapse in 4K.

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On the Road Again

For the America the Beautiful edition, released for Spring 2013, we put the word out by creating a series of roadside ads in the grand tradition of Burma Shave signs. It was muddy work.

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Decals Details

A demonstration on how to apply the decal which shipped with each 3-Pack of our America the Beautiful edition in the Spring of 2013.

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Fn Film Obsessives Guide Part 4
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Limited Edition Recap IV

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the Quarterly Editions for 2012: National Crop, Day Game, Traveling Salesman, and Expedition.

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A Daring Rescue

Upon discovering one of our shipping envelopes had fallen down into the elevator shaft, we mounted a daring attempt to rescue the order.

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A Drive into the Gap

For the Day Game edition, we published a book by Kevin Guilfoile about baseball, memory and, fathers and sons. Read an excerpt and order A Drive into the Gap here.

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We Made a Red One

A love letter just in time for Valentine’s Day, and forever after, featuring the Field Notes Red Blooded edition.

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French Paper on Two Rivers

Bryan French sat down to talk with us about French Paper's connection and commitment to the Hamilton Wood Type Museum, in connection to our Two Rivers edition.

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Red Fang

Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin commandeers the camera to talk about how the band, Red Fang, uses Field Notes.

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Limited Edition Recap III

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the Quarterly Editions for 2011: Dry Transfer, American Tradesman, Fire Spotter, and Northerly.

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A FN Midwest Workshop Project

A Field Notes Midwest Workshop project to celebrate the launch Northerly, our Winter 2011 Quarterly Edition.

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Eyes of the Forest

With the launch of the Fall 2011 Quarterly Edition, Fire Spotter, a field trip to document a tower in northern Wisconsin.

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Letraset!

Professor Bedell demonstrates how to get the best use out of the Dry Transfer edition, released in the Spring of 2011.

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Limited Edition Recap II

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the Quarterly Editions for 2010: Packet of Sunshine, County Fair, Raven’s Wing, and Balsam Fir.

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Infinite Darkness

With the launch of our Pitch Black edition, we gathered up a bunch of other iconic jet-black objects and shot them in glorious, full-color black-and-white.

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Hot Foil

The Balsam Fir edition for Winter 2010 included an interesting process of Hot Foil Stamping, which was something that sounded like it definitely needed filming.

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Wings

Our very first film documenting how an edition gets made from start to finish, this for the production of Raven’s Wing in 2009.

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Monona County Fair

To launch the release of the County Fair edition, we took a field trip to the Monona County Fair in Onawa, Iowa and set up a booth.

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One for Every State in the Union

An experiment created during the launch of the County Fair edition, using packs for each state to form the whole U.S. of A.

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Vend I Say! Vend!

A look at the world's first (and only) Field Notes Vending Machine, built and maintained at Chicago co-working office, Space.

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Stenography & Hobo Marks

For the production of our Steno, we decided to go out, shoot some footage at the printers and binders, and show how they’re made.

The Steno
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Love a Parade

A quick roundup of all of our Quarterly Editions from Winter 2008 to Winter 2011, all in one long orderly line.

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Fn Film Obsessives Guide Part 1
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Limited Edition Recap I

Jim and Bryan discuss the ideas behind, and the making of, the first Quarterly Editions: Butcher Orange, Butcher Extra Blue, Grass Stain Green, Mackinaw Autumn, and Just Below Zero.

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Dum Dah Dee Dum

A stop-motion recap of our very first, and very colorful, year of Field Notes Quarterly Editions.

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Make a Note of It (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Sweet Tooth” edition film.

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Caution Ahead (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Mile Marker” edition film.

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The Stars and Their Courses (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Night Sky” edition film.

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Make of These What You Will (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Mile Marker” edition film.

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Handy Around the House (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Workshop Companion” edition film.

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Just a Phase We're Going Through (Commentary)

Steve and Bryan’s behind-the-scenes commentary on the “Lunacy” edition film.

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