Pure Pens

Field Notes Limited Edition XOXO 2024 (3 Pack)

£20.83 GBP


Starting back in 2012, Field Notes has created a unique memo book for every XOXO Conference, an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online. Each year, XOXO has brought together writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, game developers, coders, cartoonists, and more to share their stories and struggles in Portland, Oregon.   

After a five-year hiatus, both the festival and the Field Notes limited edition 3-Packs are back for one final time.

This year’s books were created from a cyanotype captured by Ellen Wilde. A cyanotype is created by treating a surface with a UVA-sensitive chemical, exposing it to light, and developing/fixing it in water, resulting in a blue-and-white negative image.

Wilde sent us a scan of the fabric, suggesting we use it across the full 25"×38" press sheet to make 18 different covers, and that’s exactly what we did. The covers are printed as a duotone on Sappi McCoy 100# matte cover stock, using two blue inks. The inside cover features the same portion of the image, flipped and ghosted.

The books feature 48 pages of Domtar Lynx 60# opaque text stock, printed with a light-blue graph grid. They’re bound with three silver staples and sold in 3-Packs.

 

SPECIFICATIONS:
  • 01. Cyanotype capturing the light through the oak tree leaves at Washington High School in Portland, Ore. Created onsite by Ellen Wilde, eachother.studio.
  • 02. Proudly printed by the good people of Team Concept Printing, Carol Stream, Ill.
  • 03. Cover: Sappi McCoy Matte 100#C “White,” with a hearty duotone application of Pantone 7702 and 654 soy-based Toyo inks.
  • 04. Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of Pantone 304 soy-based Toyo ink.
  • 05. Cover and innards printed on a Komori GL 640L 40" 6-color UV offset press.
  • 06. Bound with a Horizon SPF-200L “Bookletmaker” stitcher with dual feeder towers, with appreciation to Slocum, McGill, and Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
  • 07. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
  • 08. Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
  • 09. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
  • 10. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
  • 11. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.

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Pure Pens

Field Notes Limited Edition XOXO 2024 (3 Pack)

£20.83 GBP

Starting back in 2012, Field Notes has created a unique memo book for every XOXO Conference, an experimental festival for independent artists who live and work online. Each year, XOXO has brought together writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, game developers, coders, cartoonists, and more to share their stories and struggles in Portland, Oregon.   

After a five-year hiatus, both the festival and the Field Notes limited edition 3-Packs are back for one final time.

This year’s books were created from a cyanotype captured by Ellen Wilde. A cyanotype is created by treating a surface with a UVA-sensitive chemical, exposing it to light, and developing/fixing it in water, resulting in a blue-and-white negative image.

Wilde sent us a scan of the fabric, suggesting we use it across the full 25"×38" press sheet to make 18 different covers, and that’s exactly what we did. The covers are printed as a duotone on Sappi McCoy 100# matte cover stock, using two blue inks. The inside cover features the same portion of the image, flipped and ghosted.

The books feature 48 pages of Domtar Lynx 60# opaque text stock, printed with a light-blue graph grid. They’re bound with three silver staples and sold in 3-Packs.

 

SPECIFICATIONS:
  • 01. Cyanotype capturing the light through the oak tree leaves at Washington High School in Portland, Ore. Created onsite by Ellen Wilde, eachother.studio.
  • 02. Proudly printed by the good people of Team Concept Printing, Carol Stream, Ill.
  • 03. Cover: Sappi McCoy Matte 100#C “White,” with a hearty duotone application of Pantone 7702 and 654 soy-based Toyo inks.
  • 04. Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine, 1-color application of Pantone 304 soy-based Toyo ink.
  • 05. Cover and innards printed on a Komori GL 640L 40" 6-color UV offset press.
  • 06. Bound with a Horizon SPF-200L “Bookletmaker” stitcher with dual feeder towers, with appreciation to Slocum, McGill, and Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
  • 07. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
  • 08. Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
  • 09. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
  • 10. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
  • 11. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
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