The perfect blend of function and charm, all in one.
The 67th Quarterly Edition for the summer of 2025?coincides with the American publication of??a brilliant and important new book by author??Recounting three epic journeys, Macfarlane surveys the state of Earths rivers and the people who are fighting for them. Its an impossibly large story, interwoven with?an extremely personal fourth river tale.
Macfarlane is a long-time Field Notes user and occasional co-conspirator. We first worked with him a few years ago, making a?companion 3-Pack to his book,?Underland.?We were thrilled to learn that once again, with?Is a River Alive?, Field Notes played an important part in his writing process:
These notebooks were my constant companions during the years of writing?Is A River Alive?;?always there in pocket or pack. Into them I poured the glitter of primary encounter; image, dialogue, idea. They got dog-eared and foxed and soaked and filled with words. The closing of the circle which now sees a new River edition of Field Notes flowing out of the finished book makes me very happy indeed.
Also returning is Macfarlanes frequent collaborator, legendary visual?artist?, best known for his artwork for Radiohead and The?Smile.
Donwoods starting point for the Is a River Alive??covers was his entrancing, hand-carved linocut titled Meander. Manipulation of the colors and textures of the resulting prints led to a series of works, two of which were chosen for the U.S.A. and U.K. editions of the book.
The highly textured and colorful covers are printed and embossed on Sappi McCoy 100#C Silk stock. Three gloss-white staples bind-in 48 Domtar Lynx 60#T pages featuring a Cloud Forest Gray graph grid.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
Cover: Sappi McCoy Silk 100#C White, with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks, UV gloss coating and matte varnish, and sculpted emboss.
Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T White, with a fine, 1-color application of Cloud Forest Grey soy-based ink.
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.
- Graph grid: 3/16" 3/16" (4.7mm 4.7mm).
Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" 5-1/2" (89mm 140mm).
FIELD NOTES?uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
All?FIELD NOTES?memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
Limited Edition of 30,000 3-Packs.
UPC: 850032279376
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