DDC “Other Worlds”

“If We Are Possible…So Is Everything Else!”

MY MIND HAS BEEN ELSEWHERE: And I documented those meanderings into a new project that got weird…and quick…welcome to DDC OTHER WORLDS!

And out of it came this little cosmic quip: “IF WE ARE POSSIBLE…SO IS EVERYTHING ELSE.” We dream, speculate and hope there’s life out there somewhere, right? Of course. And yet when you study galactic distances and the physics (5th grade level, of course) of just how far we are from EVERYTHING, there’s this fleeting quality that for as much as we reach for the stars, we should be equally pondering the magical, mystical improbability of humans, and the extraordinary animals we share the planet with. 

My mind floated to weird places in this project. From exotic worlds with exotic landscapes to tarantulas to cellular psychedelia to geometric tesseracts…and when I got back home it reminded me to appreciate the beauty around us here on Mother Earth.

Let’s get lost in Other Worlds! Hell, I might not come back!

AND HEY: Domestic Shipping Only
For This First Batch!

For the first chunk of the DDC x OW x FN “Multifarious” Edition we are only shipping within the U.S.A. We will have a link up for “Everywhere Else” very soon. Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Asia and a small island 478 miles from New Guinea. We’ve set aside a chunk for the international orders, and will let you know on our Instagram when that link is coming.



DDC-411 DDC × OW × FN “Other Worlds” Multifarious Edition

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DDC-411 DDC × OW × FN “Other Worlds” Multifarious Edition

$15.95

Product Description:
MY MIND HAS BEEN ELSEWHERE: Which is oddly refreshing. It’s weird to exist. I find myself daydreaming more and more. So I‘ve tried to explore new realms—be it learning about tarantula defense mechanisms, the unapologetic math of galactic distances, color exploration and the most beautiful desert plant I’ve even seen. I’m slowly teaching myself to explore, embrace and in turn, exist in other worlds. At least in my mind, on my walks and in between projects...and I’ve tried to capture each twist and turn along the way which you’ll see expressed in this surreal set. I’ve been lost in other worlds...and I haven’t quite figured out if I want to come back. —Aaron James Draplin, Age: 53, Mother Earth

Multiversal Details:
01. 18 Different Cover Designs From My Travels in Other Worlds
02. Some Hand-Drawn, Some Vectored, Some Made in Ways We Will Never Know
03. 9 Foil Slams That Ignite Each Cover They Land On
04. Multiple Foil Colors Switched In and Out
05. Different Paper Colors Injected at Our Peril
06. Silver/Copper/Silver Staples
07. Uncoated Cover Paper For Zero Gravity Ee-Zee-Grip
08. Custom Inside Back Cover Rulers
09. Ape Shit Innards (Redacted At This Time For Security Reasons)
10. Mystical, Magical Mysteries For You To Discover
11. Incalculable Page Spins, Mixing Things Up, Down and Inside Out
12. Indiscernible, Indefinite, Immeasurable, Indeterminate Edition

Interdimensional Details:
01. Lost in Other Worlds the entire time. (Don’t know if I am going to come back?)
02. Rascal realms rummaged.
03. Another DDC “Rogue” Edition. Deal with it.
04. Mined from the Cosmic Downloads of Leigh’s Big Brain
05. Cannonball run’d from Chicago to Portland in record time.
06. Big-Ass Ups to Bryan Bedell for corralling and press-checking this beast.
07. Kept Michele up at night. Goodnight, Little Daffodil.
08. Kept Jim in the dark, in a haze and in a fury from the jump. Ride the DDC wave, Jim.

Cross-Dimensional Details:
01. Proudly printed by the deep thinkers of Graphic Art Studios, Barrington, Ill.
02. DDC × Field Notes 48-page SET OF THREE memo books shrinkwrapped into a Three-Pack!
03. Cover: Domtar Cougar 80#C “Woolgathering White” mixed with a couple cartons of Neenah Astrobrights 80#C, with a thick, brute force, 4-color offset application of “CMYK Process” soy-based Superior ink, plus some random foil slams.
04. Innards: Finch Paper Opaque Smooth 60#T “Bright White,” with a fine 1-color application of “Whatever We Had Sitting Around” soy-based Superior ink.
05. Cover and innards printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster Cd 1025 six-color press.
06. Bound with a Muller Martini 6-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder/scorer, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
07. Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm/9,525,000nm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.
08. Memo book: 3–1/2"× 5–1/2" (89mm × 140mm/8.89e+7nm × 1.397e+8nm).
09.FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
10. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A, on Planet Earth, in the Solar System, somewhere in a quiet, unassuming corner of the the Milky Way galaxy.

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