I used to be a diehard Moleskine fan. I still love them, but I realized that I was spending too much time worrying about what to write in those precious pages that I never actually wrote much. So I ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Graphic designer Aaron James Draplin sees similarities ...

Field Notes design its new limited edition Index Collection to make taking notes about your passions and hobbies easier. Unlike the standard lined blank pages found in most Field Notes notebooks, a ...

If you have a career in design, you’ve certainly seen Draplin’s work. You might even know him by name. But even if you don’t know him directly, it’s likely that you’ve heard of Field Notes. Draplin, ...

Field Notes cofounders Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal have convened to ostensibly talk about their cult-fave memo book brand. But Draplin—the gregarious, hilarious Portland proprietor of Draplin Design ...

About four years ago, I stocked up on so many of those tiny notebooks that I vowed “never again.” A notebook is useful, sure, but my limited-edition books from the boutique company Field Notes just ...

Field Notes’ new line of notebooks may be mass-produced, but that doesn’t mean they’re all identical. With covers made of thinly sliced American Cherry wood, each Shelterwood edition‘s cover is a ...

Sometime in the later years of the previous decade, I entered a contest from a local company, Coudal Partners, and won. The contest was something like "what's the weirdest cover of a hip-hop song." My ...