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Birds and Trees of North America Notebooks Set A
Birds and Trees of North America Notebooks Set A
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The 64th Quarterly Limited Edition for fall, 2024 is “The Birds and Trees of North America” Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960). Rex Brasher’s artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of America’s bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insightful descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds. Unhappy with color printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-colored all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932.
The Details:
- Set of 3 Classic Field Notes Memo Books
- Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White" graph paper inside
- Dimensions: 3-1/2" × 5-1/2"
- Designed, printed, and manufactured in the US
- Covers are a lovely felt-textured 100#C Mohawk Via “Pure White,” bound by three stainless steel staples. The bodies are 60#T Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra, ruled with pale gray lines
- 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:
- Images courtesy of Rex Brasher Association, Inc. ©2024, rexbrasher.org
- Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill
- Cover: Mohawk Via Felt 100#C “Pure White,” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks
- Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra 60#T “White.
- Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone G40" 6-color UV printing press
- Bound by a Muller Martini Presto II saddle stitcher with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple
- Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge round-corner machine
- Ruled lines: 1/4" (6.4mm)
- Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm)
- FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials
- All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
