One of My New Album Styles
Click the picture to jump to a slide show of Laci’s album design. For those of you who aren’t running Flash, here’s a few spreads. Above, the wrap-around cover on the little 5×5 coffeetable album. I love it!
This is one of the inside spreads. It features Laci playing on the beach with her grandmother and mom.
All my books are custom-designed by me now. I don’t use templates anymore, and I don’t make soft-cover books anymore. For the last year or so, my clients loved their template-designed soft-cover books, but the thing is: I want my photography presentation to be unique to each family, and to have an heirloom quality, and for that to be the case, I needed to be able to design the books myself, and I needed books that would last a very long time. Hence, I simply HAD to find a book printing company that met my requirements.
Four generations of women were present at Laci’s shoot. I love this spread because this spread alone makes the book a family heirloom to be passed down for generations.
Each spread you see here measures 5×10 — the pages are designed as 2-page spreads. The center of the spread will be inside the gutter of the book, which is why you never see anything important (faces, for example) in the center of the spread.
I love this spread because it’s simple and clean and conveys a sense of one moment melding into another.
I sprinkled some quotes throughout the book, to encourage viewers to linger on the pages and perhaps contemplate what the photographs might mean, and because sometimes words are worth just as much as pictures.
This is a press-printed book, meaning the pages are printed through a printing press and bound like a book you might buy in Barnes & Noble. When the actual book arrives, I’ll post some pictures of it so you can see how it came out!
Coming soon, an example of a flush mount design. My flush mount albums are covered in full-grain Italian leather, with pages that are photographic prints. When a flush mount book is open, it lies flat and you can barely see the gutter in the middle of the spread. The pages are similar to a child’s board book — rigid, with the images professionally mounted directly to the board, creating a book that will last a lifetime. (The company even guarantees the flush mount albums for your lifetime!) Can’t wait to show you one of those! Be on the lookout in the blog for the design I’ll be submitting. It’s SO cool!
Hi Julie:
As always your work screams quality, originality and creativity.
Your new albums are breathtaking.
Love,
Deb
Comment by Debora Lim — July 25, 2007 @ 3:05 pm