Most Field Notes Brand memo books are bound by three, silver-colored staples. Here are the exceptions that I know of:

Black Staples

  • Night Sky (Summer 2013)

  • Pitch Black

  • Capsule (AW 2014)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Utility (Spring 2017)

  • Pitch Black (duplex)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

  • The James Brand - The Benton (2018)

  • The James Brand (2018)

  • NxtLvl (2018)

  • Clandestine (Winter 2018)

Copper Staples

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014)

  • Two Rivers (Spring 2015)

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

Brass Staples

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

Gold Staples

  • Drink Local (Fall 2013)

  • Shelterwood (Spring 2014)

  • Cherry Graph (2014)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Capsule (SS 2016)

  • Capsule (AW 2016)

  • Campfire (Summer 2017)

  • Heartbeat

  • Tournament of Books 2018

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

White Staples

  • Capsule (AW 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Coffee Origins” (2015)

  • Snowblind (Winter 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

  • L. L. Bean “Bean Boot” (2017)

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Rams (2018)

Different Staples Per Pack

  • Mile Marker (Spring 2019)

Wire-binding (Reporter's Notebooks)

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

Perfect-binding (PUR)

  • Black Ice (Winter 2016)

  • Capsule (AW 2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

Smyth-sewn in three signatures

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Signature

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

Two Staples

  • Tenth Anniversary Edition (2017)

And most feature graph grid inside. Here are the exceptions that I know of:

Ruled

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Shelterwood (Spring 2014)

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Tournament of Books 2015 (January 2015)

  • Capsule (SS 2016)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Coffee Origins” (2015) – red book

  • Nixon x Field Notes (Feb 2015) – dark brown book

  • Capsule (AW 2016)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016) – black & white book

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

  • Carhartt (2016)

  • Black Ice (Winter 2016)

  • Tournament of Books (2017)

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Capsule (AW 2017)

  • Pitch Black (duplex)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

  • Haxley (2017) – “story book”

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (2017)

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (2017) – Floral Prints

  • Signature (ruled)

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

  • Graduate Hotels (2019)

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

Ledger Style

  • Traveling Salesman (Fall 2012)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Utility (Utility Ledger) (Spring 2017)

Plain / Blank

  • Arts & Sciences, partially (Summer 2014)

  • Doxie (2013)

  • DDC Factory Floor “Sorta Jade” (December 2013)

  • Capsule (AW 2015)

  • Nixon x Field Notes (Feb 2015) – blue book

  • Point Oh (Oct 2015)

  • DDC “Dead Print” (2015)

  • Mondo x Field Notes “Dead Print” (2015)

  • Landland x Field Notes “Dead Print” (Nov 2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016) – sunset book

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Tenth Anniversary Edition (2017) – red book

  • Haxley (2017) – “sketch book”

  • Signature (plain)

Plain (with page numbers)

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

Dot Grid

  • Fire Spotter (Fall 2011)

  • Day Game (Summer 2012)

  • Pitch Black

  • Capsule (AW 2013)

  • Capsule (SS 2014)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Coffee Origins” (2015) – green book

  • Cards Against Humanity (2016)

  • Pitch Black (duplex)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

  • Rams (2018)

  • Clandestine (Winter 2018)

  • Mile Marker (Spring 2019)

  • Wilco (2019)

Dotted Graph Grid

  • DDC “Pretty Much Everything” (2016)

Reticle Graph Grid

  • Night Sky (Summer 2013)

  • Unexposed (Fall 2014)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Coastal (Spring 2018)

Engineer’s Graph Grid

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Utility – Graph (Spring 2017)

Inverted Graph Grid

  • Northerly (Winter 2011)

Weekly Date Book Style

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Tumi

  • Resolution (Winter 2017) – white book

Checklist

  • Resolution (Winter 2017) – red and blue books

 

Field Notes likes to use different materials and printing methods for the covers! Here are some notables:

Debossed

  • Grass Stain Green (Summer 2009)

  • Raven’s Wing (Fall 2010)

  • Fire Spotter (Fall 2011)

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Red Blooded

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Signature

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

Embossed

  • Northerly (Winter 2011)

  • Traveling Salesman (Fall 2012)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Capsule (SS 2016)

  • Point Oh (Oct 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Black Ice (Winter 2016)

  • L. L. Bean “Bean Boot” (2017)

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

Letterpress-printed by Hand

  • Grass Stain Green (Summer 2009)

  • Raven’s Wing (Fall 2010)

  • Fire Spotter (Fall 2011)

  • Red Blooded

  • Two Rivers (Spring 2015)

Die-Cut

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

Wood Veneer Covers

  • Shelterwood (Spring 2014) – cherry

  • Cherry Graph – cherry

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014) – birch

 

Foil-stamped

  • Balsam Fir (Winter 2010)

  • Day Game (Summer 2012)

  • Night Sky (Summer 2013)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014)

  • Capsule (AW 2015)

  • DDC “Dead Print” (2015)

  • Mondo x Field Notes “Dead Print” (2015)

  • Landland x Field Notes “Dead Print” (Nov 2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • DDC “Pretty Much Everything” (2016)

  • Black Ice (Winter 2016)

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (2017) – Floral Prints

  • M × L × B × D (February 2018)

  • NxtLvl (2018)

  • Coastal (Spring 2018)

  • Clandestine (Winter 2018)

  • Mile Marker (Spring 2019)

Soft-touch Coating

  • Drink Local (Fall 2013)

  • Unexposed (Fall 2014)

  • Rams (2018)

Gilded (cover & innards)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

Silk-screened

  • Snowblind (Winter 2015)

  • M × L × B × D (February 2018)

Duplex Covers

  • Raven's Wing (Fall 2010)

  • American Tradesman (Summer 2011)

  • Shenandoah (Fall 2015)

  • Pitch Black (duplex)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

Yupo Synthetic Paper

  • Expedition (Winter 2012)

  • Yupo

  • The North Face

Glow-in-the-dark

  • Haxley (2017)

End Papers

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

Off-white Innards

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Shelterwood (Spring 2014)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

Colored Innards

  • Northerly (Winter 2011)

  • Traveling Salesman (Fall 2012)

  • Cold Horizon (Winter 2013)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • DDC “Pretty Much Everything” (2016)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

Thicker Innards (70#T)

  • Traveling Salesman (Fall 2012)

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Shelterwood (Spring 2014)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

  • Black Ice (Winter 2016)

  • Utility (Spring 2017)

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

  • Signature

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

Thicker Innards (60#T)

  • Shenandoah (Fall 2015)

  • XOXO Festival 2015

  • Snowblind (Winter 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

  • DDC “Pretty Much Everything” (2016)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016)

  • Cards Against Humanity (2016)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Carhartt (2016)

  • L. L. Bean “Bean Boot” (2017)

  • Tournament of Books (2017)

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Pitch Black (duplex)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

  • Bellroy Everyday Inspiration (2017)

  • Campfire (Summer 2017)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

  • Tenth Anniversary Edition (2017) – “2005” and “2007” books

  • Heartbeat

  • Obama Foundation (2017)

  • Tournament of Books 2018

  • Coastal (Spring 2018)

  • Three Missions (Summer 2018)

  • Rams (2018)

  • XOXO 2018

  • Clandestine (Winter 2018)

  • Mile Marker (Spring 2019)

  • Graduate Hotels (2019)

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

  • Wilco (2019)

Perforated Innards

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

“Photographic” Covers

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Capsule (AW 2016)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016)

  • Campfire (Summer 2017)

  • Canada Goose (2018)

  • Capsule (AW 2018)

  • Three Missions (Summer 2018)

  • Graduate Hotels (2019)

Illustrated Covers

  • XOXO 2015

  • Haxley (2017)

  • XOXO 2018

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

No “Practical Applications”

  • Night Sky (Summer 2013)

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Two Rivers (Spring 2015)

  • Loot Crate (March 2015)

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Three Missions (Summer 2018)

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

  • Wilco (2019)

Not 3½" x 5½" (4¾" x 7½")

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014)

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

Not 3½" x 5½" (3¾" × 8")

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

Not 3½" x 5½" (4¼" × 6½")

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Signature

Not 3½" x 5½" (3½" × 7")

  • End Papers (2018)

Editions with different covers per pack

  • Mackinaw Autumn (Fall 2009)

  • Just Below Zero (Winter 2009/2010)

  • Packet of Sunshine (Spring 2010)

  • County Fair (Summer 2010)

  • National Crop (Spring 2012)

  • Day Game (Summer 2012)

  • America the Beautiful (Spring 2013)

  • Night Sky (Summer 2013)

  • Drink Local (Fall 2013)

  • Cold Horizon (Winter 2013)

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Unexposed (Fall 2014)

  • Ambition (Winter 2014)

  • Two Rivers (Spring 2015)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Starbucks Roastery “Coffee Origins” (2015)

  • Shenandoah (Fall 2015)

  • Nixon x Field Notes (Feb 2015)

  • Point Oh (Oct 2015)

  • Landland x Field Notes “Dead Print” (Nov 2015)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • L. L. Bean (2016)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Carhartt (2016)

  • L. L. Bean “Bean Boot” (2017)

  • Campfire (Summer 2017)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

  • Tenth Anniversary Edition (2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (2017) – Heritage

  • Abercrombie & Fitch (2017) – Floral Prints

  • Obama Foundation (2017)

  • M × L × B × D (February 2018)

  • Canada Goose (2018)

  • Coastal (Spring 2018)

  • Three Missions (Summer 2018)

  • End Papers (Fall 2018)

  • The James Brand (2018)

  • XOXO 2018

  • Clandestine (Winter 2018)

  • Mile Marker (Spring 2019)

  • Graduate Hotels (2019)

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

  • Wilco (2019)

  • Autumn Trilogy (Fall 2019)

Boxed Set

  • National Crop (Spring 2012)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Wilco (2019)

6-Pack

  • National Crop (Spring 2012)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Wilco (2019)

2-Pack

  • Arts & Sciences (Summer 2014)

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition (2014)

  • Loot Crate (March 2015)

  • Byline (Summer 2016)

  • Front Page

  • Pitch Black – large (duplex)

  • Bellroy Everyday Inspiration (2017)

  • Blue Wednesday (2017)

  • Dime Novel (Fall 2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

  • Signature

  • Heartbeat

  • End Papers (2018)

  • Green Wednesday (2018)

4-Pack

  • Lunacy (subscription version) (Fall 2016)

5-Pack

  • Starbucks Reserve Roastery “Capitol Hill” (2015)

Variety Packs (different rulings per pack)

  • Nixon x Field Notes (Feb 2015)

  • Nixon × Field Notes (2016)

  • Ingersoll (2017)

  • Resolution (Winter 2017)

  • Tenth Anniversary Edition (2017)

  • Haxley (2017)

Randomly ordered

  • Unexposed (Fall 2014)

  • Two Rivers (Spring 2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (Spring 2016)

  • M × L × B × D (February 2018)

No Belly Band

  • Packet of Sunshine (Spring 2010)

  • Dry Transfer (Spring 2011)

  • National Crop (Spring 2012)

  • Unexposed (Fall 2014)

  • Workshop Companion (Summer 2015)

  • Lunacy (Fall 2016)

  • Haxley (2017)

  • National Parks (Summer 2019)

  • Wilco (2019)

Spring

  • Butcher Extra Blue (2009)

  • Packet of Sunshine (2010)

  • Dry Transfer (2011)

  • National Crop (2012)

  • America the Beautiful (2013)

  • Shelterwood (2014)

  • Two Rivers (2015)

  • Sweet Tooth (2016)

  • Utility (2017)

  • Coastal (2018)

  • Mile Marker (2019)

Summer

  • Grass Stain Green (2009)

  • County Fair (2010)

  • American Tradesman (2011)

  • Day Game (2012)

  • Night Sky (2013)

  • Arts & Sciences (2014)

  • Workshop Companion (2015)

  • Byline (2016)

  • Campfire (2017)

  • Three Missions (2018)

  • National Parks ( 2019)

  

Fall

  • Mackinaw Autumn (2009)

  • Raven's Wing (2010)

  • Fire Spotter (2011)

  • Traveling Salesman (2012)

  • Drink Local (2013)

  • Unexposed (2014)

  • Shenandoah (2015)

  • Lunacy (2016)

  • Dime Novel (2017)

  • End Papers (2018)

  • Autumn Trilogy (2019)

Winter

  • Butcher Orange (2008/2009)

  • Just Below Zero (2009/2010)

  • Balsam Fir (2010)

  • Northerly (2011)

  • Expedition (2012)

  • Cold Horizon (2013)

  • Ambition (2014)

  • Snowblind (2015)

  • Black Ice (2016)

  • Resolution (2017)

  • Clandestine (2018)