Field Notes: Paletas

Field Notes’ 71st Quarterly Edition, Paletas, celebrates the colourful, frozen fruit treats that are a summer staple in Mexico and beyond.

Inspired by Chicago’s multigenerational Paletaría Los Magos in the Pilsen neighbourhood, the edition explores the traditional, artisanal methods used by owners Norma and José to make their paletas.

Each pack features colourful covers printed on 12pt WestRock Tango C1S stock, finished with a combination of glossy and frosty matte varnishes. Inside are 48 cream-coloured dot-grid pages printed on 60#T Domtar Lynx paper.

The transparent backing card features an illustrated paleta-wrapper design by local Chicanx artist Atlan Arceo-Witzl. A lovely little notebook for summer notes, sketches, lists and ideas.

Specifications

1. Backing card illustration by Atlan Arceo-Witzl, atlanaw.com.
2. Proudly printed by the good people of Classic Color, Broadview, Ill.
3. Covers: West Rock Tango 12pt C1S “Blanco” with a 4-color application of process-color soy-based inks.
4. Innards: Domtar Lynx Opaque 60#T “Blanco” with a fine application of “Crema” soy-based Superior ink.
5. Cover and innards printed on a Komori Lithrone G40 six-color UV printing press.
6. Bound with 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.”
7. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
8. Dot-Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
9. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).
10. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927), in collaboration with Monotype.
11. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.
12. Limited Edition of 36,000 3-Packs total. 12,000 Packs each of A, B, and C.