Editing The Pen Addict 69/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Editions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Those were our friends. Yeah. The purple one. Those those are actually pretty visible. If you don't have to. Yeah, they got around. I'll talk about them real quick. Yeah, the XOXO Fest from last year were the purple ones. So these aren't these aren't stock editions or colors editions. But, you know, I guess people have seen enough of them in the pink capsule editions from this year that, you know, all the collectors are gaga over the pink. And, you know, I like I do like those. I like those because they have the letterpress cover, too.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I mean, with all this with all this, the custom editions, you know, I know this is just something to kind of clear things up. Like we we get a lot of calls of people asking for them. And I know like a lot of people are calling like, you know, they're finding out who is at the conference calling them. We can't. I mean, we're doing those as a job for someone else, you know, and obviously it's our product. And, you know, we only work with people that, you know, we want to see our name on the book with and everything. But but, you know, we just we keep a few of those for ourselves here, you know, just for the archives. But, you know, that's like, you know, that's kind of a contract with that other company. And we can't, you know, we can't sell those or give those away. Those are it's up to them to do with them what they want to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Good. I'm glad you said that, actually. So in case anyone had any designs on calling Field Notes office asking for the all these weird one off offshoots that they're seeing, these are not the production line stuff. And Field Notes does not have these. These are going through special special contracts with these vendors for promotional items and things like that. So.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah, we don't make any of that stuff to sell. It's all it's all. You know, I don't think any of the contract jobs we've really done have been for sale. They've all been either, you know, to give away at a company just for people to use at work or, you know, for attendees at a conference or, you know, we've had some schools do them or, you know, charities or things like that. So, yeah, we don't generally produce things aside from like the J. Crew editions, you know, things like that. We don't generally do things for sale.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure. What's from the collector aspect? And this may not be a question for everyone, but just are you involved with doing the these projects for these customers?

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Oh, yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So you're you're involved in in all of that, too. So what for just for the collectors only, do you have an edition that you've done that's been for one of these companies that you thought was was really neat and that you enjoyed? Like, I don't own it, but I always thought the Levi's edition was great with the red, white and blue and those covers. I just thought that was a really pretty, really good looking edition. Do you have any any favor just kind of kind of from those kind of from those offshoot for different companies? Yeah.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Like I like I said, I can't even talk about a lot of those because we just for some I don't want to punish the people who put them out by having thousands of people call them. But the Levi's are definitely I mean, you know, Levi's where I think they, you know, they gave those away in stores for a while. And those were definitely, you know, the red, white and blue with the silver type that really looked nice. I think we've redone a couple of the I think that we did that. Well, no, that wasn't exactly tradesman. But, you know, we've picked up sort of the same look of those for a couple other ones we've done since. I'm trying to think of other customs. I mean, we've done a lot of the customs we do are just sort of what we do is we print blank. We print covers and inside papers and don't assemble them. And then we can go back and print a logo on the back of the blank covers. So for the smaller runs of customs, you know, like our custom order started to a thousand pieces. And we, you know, we do a lot of those just for, you know, business or whatever. And, you know, we just print that black logo on the back and then have them bound. So, you know, most of those are just craft with the black on the back and then we will do kind of maybe once a year we'll do a big run of another colored paper. So I think we've done like blue and some blue ones and some, I know that the web stock ones that were on the Field Nuts group the other day, I can mention those because those were there. Those were on, you know, like a light green paper. And we, you know, we did a lot of other customs on that same paper for a while. But generally the ones we do for, you know, the custom order ones we do are on that paper. But we've, if we do a bigger one, I'm trying to think of like ones that I could even talk about that are interesting. I mean, Levi's, you know, and then the J.Crew ones, the, whatchamacallit, Mongolian version was definitely one of my favorites. That was super fun. So we had to work with the translator and have them go through and it was all like printing terminology to get translated. So I had to work closely with them to kind of explain what we meant, you know, when you say something like, you know, you know, a lot of the printing terms were confusing to them. So that was really fun, like working out that and finding, you know, that Mongolian fonts just slightly different than, you know, Russian Cyrillic. So we'd actually buy Mongolian Futura and, you know, typeset all that. So that was definitely one of my, one of my favorites.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Now that, that one is awesome. That's, that's the one I wanted for my collection. Like I don't get too much in the offshoots. Like if they're easy for me to come by, you know, whatever, I'll get them. But that one, I really wanted the Renegade Pencils one. Yeah. I just, cause I just thought that was a really cool, cool design. Y'all did a great job on that one. I love, love that addition. I have one single one that will just sit there and look pretty.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah. That was one of my favorites that wasn't, you know, it wasn't, well, we did actually sell those on the site, but it was a charity kind of thing and not really one of our products. So that was definitely up there. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's, that's really cool. Well, I got one more question. I'm going to put you on the spot and then we'll, we'll get you out of here, but I'm going to put you on the spot a little bit here. What is your least favorite colors edition?

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Colors edition. Wait a minute. I got them up here. Let me scroll through and take a look.