This Quarterly Field Notes Edition, “Foiled Again,” revisits one of their favorite printing processes – hot-foil stamping, in which metallic or pigmented foils are applied to paper with heat and pressure! The process was originally patented in 1892 by Ernst Oeser of Germany, replacing the manual application of gold leaf in the book industry. By the 1950s, plastics improved the foils and provided new surfaces, resulting in many new applications across printing, packaging, and other industries. What sets “Foiled Again” apart is the foil-stamping is done by Studio on Fire of St. Paul, Minn. They’re famous for foil-stamping and die-cutting with a level of detail and accuracy that other printers consider impossible. Paper & stationery nerds check out all the details on this special edition notebook set below!
The Details:
- Set of 3 Classic Field Notes Memo Book style notebooks
- Dimensions: 3-1/2″ × 5-1/2″
- Materials: 60# Bright White body paper, Ruled
- Neenah Pearl 105#C “Indigo” Cover
- Bound by a Heidelberg ST350 Stitchmaster 8-pocket saddle stitcher,
- Designed, printed, and manufactured in the US
- Stationery nerds scroll all the way down for all the nitty gritty details!
The Maker:
Field Notes as a brand owes their existence to a tradition of promotional memo books distributed to American farmers over the last hundred years by seed, tractor, and other agricultural companies. Field Notes co-founder Aaron Draplin has been collecting these for years, “rescuing them” from obscurity. His ever growing collection has served as the inspiration for the Field Notes brand as well as their ethos. While they first started with packages of three graph-ruled booklets wrapped with a thick kraft brown cover Field Notes has since printed dozens of variations and introduced the wildly popular quarterly additions, exploring new colors, papers, printing processes, and special packaging. They’re based in Chicago where they design their products, which are then printed not too far away in Mount Prospect, Illinois using French Paper Company products from Niles, Michigan.
Specifications:
- 01. Proudly foil-stamped by the good people of Studio on Fire, St. Paul, Minn., and printed by the good people of Active Graphics, Inc., Oak Brook, Ill.
- 02. Cover: Neenah Pearl 105#C “Indigo” (Subscriber edition: “Poppy”) foil stamped on a Saroglia FUB Die Cutter Foil Stamper.
- 03. Innards: Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of metallic soy-based Toyo ink.
- 04. Inside covers/innards printed on a Mitsubishi Diamond Series 40″ 6-color press.
- 05. Bound by a Heidelberg ST350 Stitchmaster 8-pocket saddle stitcher, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
- 06. Corners precisely rounded to 3/8″ (9.5mm) by a CRC round-corner machine.
- 07. Ruled lines: 1/4″ (6.4mm).
- 08. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2″ × 5-1/2″ (89mm × 140mm).
- 09. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
- 10. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
- 11. Limited edition of 26,000 3-Packs