Coudal Partners made a video of the process behind Raven’s Wing, the latest release of their COLORS series of Field Notes. On the outside it’s a just a beautiful black memo book. But I highly suggest you watch the video and notice the great care that everyone puts into this process, the old machinery that embosses the covers or the workers that manually wrap the 3-Packs with a beautiful paper band.

The covers were printed by Flywheel Letterpress in Freeport, Illinois on an American-made, black-and-charcoal duplex linen cover stock from Neenah. The outside cover is letterpress-debossed and varnished, black-on-black. The charcoal-colored inside cover is printed in black on a vintage offset press. The graph paper is lined in grey and the 3-Packs come shrink-wrapped with a lovely French Paper Co. “Butcher Orange” belly-band.

Last week at Build I had an interesting conversation about the culture of craftsmanship and how suddenly, during the mass-production epoch, people are starting to care a lot more about everything they consume. People not only want to enjoy the products they buy, they’re also interested in the quality of those products and their manufacturing, and small companies are responding to this demand.

Naturally, great products come at a price, which makes people buy less but better stuff. And that’s great.