Field Notes started in 2019 as a shared notebook between four friends who kept sending each other the same kind of message: you have to go here, you have to cook this, look how well this is made.
Today it is an independent journal and a small design studio in Lisbon. The journal pays for nothing and the studio pays for everything, which is exactly how we like it: we write about what we love and we take on only the client work we’d be proud to put our name to.
What we believe
Good things take time
We’d rather publish one story we’re proud of than five we’re not.
Write for people
No listicles written for algorithms. Every piece is something we’d send to a friend.
Leave it better
Places, kitchens and codebases — we try to leave them better than we found them.