The creative class

One after the other in my inbox today, messages from three companies inviting me to purchase their new items:

Dan Cederholm announced Hubano, “an all-caps display serif inspired by some lettering found on a Cuban cigar box.” I’m a member of Dan’s Secret Type Club, which means I get an early look at his new fonts. I’m using Free Lunch Tomorrow to design a new brand for my The Long Table project—I love the ligatures that come with this font.
Field Notes, maker of an iconic note book, announced their 64th Quarterly Limited Edition. This edition is The Birds and Trees of North America and it features the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960). I’m no longer a subscriber—I’m working through a backlog of past editions, as well as a stack of notebooks we ordered for ScienceOnline2010—but my family still jokes about how I regularly received notebooks, pencils, and hanks.
Studio Neat announced their Patch Club, their “fun excuse to try our hand at some embroidered patches.” I’m not into patches too much, but I do have quite a few products from Studio Neat, including their great pens, mechanical pencils, Totebooks, and Panobooks. Any day now I’ll be receiving the Keen, a retractable utility knife.

I’m grateful to these teams for their quality creations. I’m sure they’re thankful for my dollars. Hope they keep up the great work.