Long live the independent press.
Two days of talks, workshops, and conversation on editorial design, small-press economics, and the long, slow craft of making things in print.
Field Notes is an annual two-day meeting for designers, editors, and the people who keep small magazines alive. Sessions are short. The audience is around two hundred. There is no expo floor.
We bring together makers from across publishing — zines, art books, regional journalism, design quarterlies — to compare notes on the work itself: the editorial decisions, the production realities, and the slow business of building a readership.
A working roster of editors, designers, and printers from independent publications across North America and Europe.
Lena Park
Editor, Quarterly Review
Editor of a regional quarterly out of Portland, Oregon, focused on architecture and labor history.
Marcus Howell
Founder, Press Three
Founder of a small art-book press in Glasgow specializing in long-form photo essays.
Ines Vautrin
Designer, Atelier 6
Independent book designer based in Marseille; her work has appeared in the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers selection three times.
David Okafor
Production Lead, Common Press
Leads production at a worker-owned printing cooperative in Brooklyn.
Suzanne Reilly
Editor-in-Chief, Slow Field
Editor of a journal of essays and reportage on rural North America.
Hiroshi Tanaka
Publisher, Nine Volumes
Publisher of a Tokyo-based imprint working at the intersection of fiction and design.
Day pass
$120One day of talks. Lunch and printed program included.
Book a day passFull pass
$220Both days of talks. Lunch, printed program, and entry to the Saturday-evening reading.
Book a full passWorkshop pass
$340Full pass plus one Sunday-morning workshop of your choice. Limited to twelve seats per workshop.
Book a workshop pass