BA/HOW Bookmarks
by Bennett Holzworth, (3 comments)

If you are going to the HOW Conference this Saturday make sure to keep an eye out for the above bookmark courtesy of Be A Design Group and yours truly. They will be in the Goody Bag so you might have to dig to find it. I ended up printing 3,500 bookmarks on a hand operated Vandercook proofing press. I don’t plan on letterpressing that high of a print run again, but it was worth it. Each bookmark has a BA sticker placed on it by our honorary contributors (my wife and her mom). They spent hours and hours placing these little stickers. I owe them. If you happen to get a bookmark, there should only be around 40 exactly like yours, on account that we used over 100 different BA stickers.
A big thank you to Neenah Paper for donating the paper and sponsoring us. The bookmarks are printed on the New Eames Paper Collection (Eames Natural White, Furniture 120 Double Thick Cover, in case you were curious). The paper took the letterpress and debossing marvelously.

Comments (3)
Kyle said:
Way to go, champ (and family!)!!
I like that you used so many different stickers.
Posted on June 10, 2005
nate said:
Yeah, I’ve never known Bennett to go half-way on anything. This site (bookmarks included) is a good example of that.
Posted on June 11, 2005
pberkbigler said:
Thanks for all your continued efforts to keep the BE A name and content out there in the design community dialogue, Bennett - thanks also to your Mom-in-law and Suz for contributing to our collectively crazy efforts to keep talking about all of this great madness. Can’t wait to see some of these in person and catch back up with the two of you soon…have a blast at the conference in our stead in the meanwhile, sir.
Posted on June 11, 2005