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With the Festival season in full swing, its all about creating memories! Now they may be booze fuelled memories and all of a slight haze, but you can guarantee they will consist of the following; meeting new friends, singing and dancing to your heart's content, listening to new bands or a rendition of a favourite song, trekking through miles of mud on your way back to your tent or even crowd surfing…ok this one might not be true!  These memories will last a lifetime and they will stay with you forever. But for the select few festival goers they take...

Here at BeGolden nearly all of our products are made from recycled leather. Recycled leather you say, what actually is that?  Recycled leather is a composite of shredded discarded leather collected from the manufacturing of clothes, shoes, boots, handbags, furniture etc. These shreds are then mixed together with a binding agent and produced into sheets of different thicknesses and then coated into any given colour. Different textures can be added for a tactile smooth finish or an interesting textured look.  In terms of leather thickness, we use a thick board for our albums to keep them stiff and durable so...

Being in the printing business we have become more and more obsessed with different type fonts! Sad, I know. However, in our defence, the whole area of fonts and type faces is strangely addictive. My individual nerdy obsession took an added turn when I was bought the book Just My Type by Simon Garfield for Christmas. Oh my life, as Simon explains, just a small tweak to the type on a logo and the whole thing changes disproportionately. Love it. It is actually amazing ( no irony here) how you can change the look and feel of a product just...