What we do, plainly.
Field & Era is a small studio that makes custom map posters for the moments people want to keep — the shelter where you found your dog, the corner where you met your partner, the address of the venue. Every edition the studio makes marks the geography of a beginning, whether that beginning was a shelter intake or a first date. Each print is made to order, on archival paper, shipped from a print partner whose work we trust.
The product
We make four editions. The Companion Edition turns the place you found a pet into a map poster — the shelter, the rescue, the corner where they appeared. The Couples Edition turns the place two people met into a print. The Atlas Edition sets two to five locations on a single poster — a small geography of a relationship. The Vows Edition sets typeset wedding vows on archival paper. The first three involve a map; the fourth is text only.
The customizer is the place to design any of them. You enter the place, the names, the date, and one optional line. You see exactly what we’ll print as you type it. There is no surprise between the screen and the paper.
The paper
We print on 250gsm uncoated archival paper with an off-white finish. The paper is heavyweight (about the weight of a thick wedding invitation), uncoated (no shine, no gloss), and archival-rated — meaning the fibers are processed to resist yellowing over time and the printing surface is engineered to hold pigment without fade. This is the paper grade most museums use for limited-edition fine art prints.
The inks are fade-resistant pigment, not dye. Pigment-based inks resist fading from sunlight, humidity, and time in a way that dye-based inks don’t. The combination of archival paper and pigment ink means the print is built to look the same on its tenth anniversary as it did on the day it arrived.
How it’s made
Every order is printed to order — we don’t hold inventory. When an order comes in:
- Within an hour, you receive a digital proof of the exact poster we’ll print. The proof is your gate. You can approve it, request changes (we iterate at no cost), or cancel for a full refund.
- Once you approve — or, if you don’t respond within 24 hours, automatically — we send the file to our print partner.
- The print partner runs the file on 250gsm archival paper at a specialized printer, packs the poster in a rigid tube, and ships it tracked.
- Most US orders arrive within 5–8 business days from approval. International orders 8–15 business days.
For the technically curious: we render the poster server-side at the exact print dimensions plus a 1/8″ bleed, with the map tiles fetched at the resolution required to print sharp at the final size. Text is rendered as vector and remains perfectly crisp at any zoom. The result is a poster that looks the same up close as it does across the room.
The donation
10% of every Companion Edition ordersupports a rescue we believe in. Right now that’s the East Bay SPCA in Dublin, California — a no-kill shelter that has been rehoming animals in the East Bay since 1874. As the studio grows, more shelters will join the rotation. We post each quarterly disbursement at /our-rescues.
The mechanism is cause-related marketing: we make the donation from our own revenue, not through a third-party platform. There’s no overhead taking a cut and no question about where the dollars go. The Couples, Atlas, and Vows editions don’t carry a donation; the Companion edition does, and it’s automatic.
How we write
The editorial work at /stories is written from the studio — not by a content agency, not ghost-written. The shelter directory at /shelters is researched against shelter source materials and re-verified on a rolling cycle. Each shelter entry shows the date it was last verified; if you find something we’ve gotten wrong, the studio inbox is contact@fieldandera.com and we’ll fix it within a day.
We don’t use AI to write the editorial work without heavy human editing. The voice matters. The factual accuracy of the shelter entries matters more.
The studio
Field & Era is a small, deliberately slow studio. The work we make is meant to outlast the moments it commemorates. The archival paper is part of that. The donation model is part of that. The studio itself is part of that.
If you have a question, the inbox at contact@fieldandera.com is read by us every business day. If you want to make a poster, the customizer is at /create. If you’d like to suggest a rescue we should partner with, the same inbox handles those too.