Unfinished Objects

By: Matthew Battles
March 24, 2011

The latest wrinkle from Field Notes, the Moleskine killer notebook brand created by omnicapable hipster design studio Coudal Partners: the unfinished notebook. You set the logo on the cover yourself using dry-transfer type like the once-indispensable Letraset kits. They’re available for a limited time only, in three-packs and… in quarterly subscriptions as well.

Of course, your notebook doesn’t have to say “FIELD NOTES”; you’re an individual after all. Be creative! But it had better be witty and insouciant — your network will notice if it isn’t. And whatever your notebook ends up saying, there are a lot of letters left. Look around: the refrigerator, the fishbowl, the guitar… the world is filled with unfinished objects.

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Coudal, Field Notes, hipster pda, keyline, letraset, Moleskine, type

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

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