“Bingo for Two” Game at NSS Draws Crowds

Written by Matt Porter in Conference Reports, Fonts, Print, and Paper, Good Company

Could there be a friendlier industry gathering of 11,000 people, 8,500 store owners and 800 exhibitors? Thousands of happy, friendly paper artists, designers and printers, all armed with engraved, pressed, foiled, stamped, numbered, hand-tipped, die-cut, hand-sewn, raffia-tied samples? What's not to like? The NSS is really just a massive Cuddly Kitten Convention. And a very serious business. Legion Papers and 22 of their closest design-print friends may have the most popular booth draw gimmick of the year. It is Bingo for Two, a scavenger hunt style game that Legion Papers says is their flashiest most bedazzling ploy yet. Just a tour of their websites will give a TASTE of the 800 different artists, designers and letterpress printers who show at this how. Paradise for paper, letterpress, engraving nerds. Go see the blog report.

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