EXPEDITION

Aesthetically, this is a design with plenty to like: a hi-visibility “Antarctic Survey Orange” front cover and “Polar Night Black” back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages feature our popular dot-graph paper printed in light gray. But the real innovation here is the paper. It’s maybe not even fair to call it paper. The whole book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing tearproof and waterproof paper extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia. Field Notes: Extreme Lab Series, No. 1 of 12 from Coudal Partners on Vimeo.   SPECIFICATIONS: Proudly printed by the good people of eDOC Communications, Mount Prospect, Ill. Cover: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 74#C, with thick, brute force applications of “Hi-Visibility Orange” and “Low-Visibility Black” soy-based Saphira inks and a tinted spot varnish. Innards: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 57#T with a 1-color application of “Cartographer’s Gr