The Field Notes FNC-17 marked the start of Field Notes' fifth year of Quarterly Editions. In that time, they had explored a wide variety of papers, colours, and printing techniques. With this new Expedition edition, for the first time, they expanded the type of paper used in their notebooks.
Aesthetically, you’ll find a design with plenty to like: a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, featuring a subtle varnish effect with a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages feature the popular dot-graph paper printed in light grey.
The real innovation here is the paper. It’s perhaps not even fair to call it paper. The entire book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing tearproof and waterproof material extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia. These notebooks possess incredible properties and durability, subjected to 12 individual tests before going on sale:
Tests Conducted:
- Test 1: Waterproof
- Test 2: Visibility
- Test 3: Wind Resistance
- Test 4: Ballistics
- Test 5: Vacuum
- Test 6: Tensile Strength
- Test 7: Compression
- Test 8: Acid Resistance
- Test 9: Flame Resistance
- Test 10: Extreme Temperature
- Test 11: Electromagnetic Waves
- Test 12: Electrical Resistance
Months of development and testing were required to perfect these notebooks. Special thanks go to Yupo for their extensive support, as well as the skilled printers and ink technicians who contributed to the process.
- SKU
- FNC-17
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 9
- Product Weight (g)
- 90
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