Field Notes 'Is A River Alive?' 3-Pack Graph

The 67th Quarterly Edition from Field Notes coincides with the American publication of Is a River Alive?, a brilliant and important new book by author Robert Macfarlane. Recounting three epic journeys, Macfarlane surveys the state of Earth’s rivers and the people who are fighting for them. It’s an impossibly large story, interwoven with an extremely personal fourth river tale.

Also returning is Macfarlane’s frequent collaborator, legendary visual artist Stanley Donwood, best known for his artwork for Radiohead and The Smile.

Donwood’s 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.

• 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).

• Field Notes uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.

• printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.