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BNB celebrates talented employees
Adding a touch of beauty to the break-room, thanks to our employees!
Along with all the promise and potential that the New Year brings, BNB has been buzzing with excitement over our “New Year, New Break Room Art” redecorating project. We are calling on BNB employees to showcase their talent for the visual arts – through paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture, collage or any medium that can be scanned or photographed and printed for display in the break-room.
For several years, faded framed book illustrations hung in the break-room, attracting dust and repelling inspiration. Our goal is to personalize the atmosphere and bring a touch of beauty and life to the industrial gray factory atmosphere. We are proud to have received so many beautiful submissions from our talented workplace family.
BNB is recycling old frames for the new artwork, as well as building new ones by hand. One talented BNB wood-worker is donating his time to constructing custom sized frames for our employee art. Our Prepress department will scan paintings, resize digital photography, and even set up “photo shoots” of sculpture and pottery. Our press operators will digitally print the final files for framing.
As the year progresses, we plan to rotate out the artwork if space becomes an issue. Otherwise, we look forward to as many submissions as our talented workforce can provide!
BNB gets into the Holiday Spirit with Christmas Book Trees
It all started three years ago with a small stack of books and a string of lights in our prepress department...
The first attempt, 2012...
It all started three years ago with a small stack of books and a string of lights in our prepress department.
This year, BNB decided to up our game with a 5-foot Christmas Book Tree to celebrate the season.
Employees from several departments gathered books earmarked for recycling, and took time early in December to build a tree. Glue and creativity flowed freely as the small group added, subtracted and rearranged books into a pleasing (and structurally stable) shape.
Onlookers may have heard phrases like, "I'm not an engineer, but...." or "I think it's leaning forward, try this..." However, in general the tree building process went smoothly.
After stringing a few twinkle lights, our BNB Christmas Book Tree was complete. Of course, no tree is complete without a special tree topper - our own gigantic pine cone!
BNB 2015 Christmas Book Tree
Accessorizing our large Book Tree are several folded book trees, sprinkled throughout the bindery.
Mini folded book trees on display in our front office
Here are a few resources if you're looking to build similar book trees: