Annually since 2004, the Bookmarks: Infiltrating the Library System project has distributed bookmarks made by book artists to help promote their work and to get the public involved with artists’ books. Participants make an edition of 100 signed and numbered bookmarks to give away. The bookmarks are distributed to galleries, bookstores and libraries around the world.
The project is organized by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of West England in Bristol, and they’ve got great documentation — with a gallery of all the bookmarks — on their website. Appropriately I have it bookmarked and have been watching the project for several years.
The bookmark to the left is by Mary Marsh.