Field Notes United States of Letterpress (3-Pack)

The 48th Quarterly Limited Edition for the Fall of 2020 is the “United States of Letterpress,” which features the work of nine independent letterpress shops from across America. This series demonstrates a wide array of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and love for the age-old and tactile process of letterpress printing.

With the help of friends at Finch Paper of Glens Falls, New York, and The French Paper Company of Niles, Michigan, they shipped each shop a different color cover stock (all from French’s Pop-Tone line) and specified the same two ink colors (Rubine Red and Process Blue) for all of them. The results are as varied and thoughtful as the participants involved. 

Continuing a tradition embossed into the history of American letterpress printing, the layouts, themes and messages are highly personal statements about heritage, geography, tradition, and social issues, and they also demonstrate the diversity and strength of today’s letterpress community. 

In 2015, Field Notes released the “Two Rivers” Edition with The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, and they leaned on them this time too. With Hamilton’s help, Field Notes crafted a list of letterpress printers they we wanted to work with. Luckily for them, they all said yes.

Please Note: Most of the artists created two designs of each book so the 3-Packs may vary from the images shown. At this time we are unable to fulfil requests for specific designs inside the 3-Packs.