Formerly a part of the Field Notes special edition series, “Expedition Edition” features a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and a “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages feature popular Dot-Graph graph paper, printed in light gray. The whole book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing water- and tearproof paper extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia. Proudly printed by the good people of eDOC Communications, Mount Prospect, Ill. Cover: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 74#C, with thick, brute force applications of “Hi-Visibility Orange” and “Low-Visibility Black” soy-based Saphira inks and a tinted spot varnish. Innards: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 57#T with a 1-color application of “Cartographer’s Gray” soy-based Saphira ink. (Use pencil/ballpoint pen for best results.) Cover and innards printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 40" 6-color printing press. Bound by a Harris Bookbinder 6-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.” Corners rounded to 3/8" (9.5mm) by a Challenge DCM round-corner machine. Dot-graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm). Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (8.9cm × 13.9cm). 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.
