by Stacey Wiseman | Nov 8, 2012 | Photo Book Design Layout, Q&A
What if I don’t take photos every month? Can I still design a book or have you design a book for me?
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Of course! Not everyone takes photos every day, every week or every month. But if you document big events and a couple of small events throughout the year, you should put your photos into a photo book. It is a fantastic and actually quite economical way to have actual prints of your favorite moments.
Organizing your year, or several years, into events is a simple way to select photos and design your pages. What exactly do I mean by events? These are family activities you do throughout the year. Usually, for these activities you have your camera with you…so photo books are an ideal way to document these moments.
Obvious events are birthdays, vacations, and holidays. But here are some additional events or ways to capture your family life:
- Trips to the zoo, pool, park, museum, etc.
- Family picnics either at home or some other location
- School events, plays, performances, graduations, etc.
- Visits with grandparents, aunts/uncles, cousins, family friends
- Playgroups with friends
- Art projects – coloring, painting, building
- Afternoon play – inside or outside
- Sporting events
Right now, we are finishing up the first round of the photo book design workshop and one of the students is designing a book of photos from 2011 and 2012, separated by events.
Below are sample layouts for a book organized by events. The table of contents are divided into two sections, one for each year. Color blocks at the bottom highlight the page numbers. There are different colors for each of the two years. This is a way-finding device. You know what year you are looking at by the color box at the page numbers. Simple pages with a full spread photo separate the sections.
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Sample Page for 2011:
Sample Page for 2012:
Page Sample Layouts for an event:
[divider] I want to hear from you. What are the 3-5 events that define your year (besides birthdays, holidays or vacations)? What do you do throughout the year that you document? Tell me in the comments below!
by Stacey Wiseman | Nov 2, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
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by Stacey Wiseman | Oct 26, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
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by Stacey Wiseman | Oct 19, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
Have you captured details of your family life? Of your kids growing up? Put this detail on the cover and immediately capture an adorable and endearing way to feature your photo book.
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by Stacey Wiseman | Oct 12, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
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by Stacey Wiseman | Oct 11, 2012 | Photo Book Design Layout, Podcast
If you have been following along with the monthly podcasts, you know we have been building up a photo book. In July, we outlined a photo book in pages/excel. In August, we outlined the book in the a design program.
For today’s video, I am showing how to design the book page by page.
Let me know in the comments below: What is your most efficient technique for designing your photo book?
by Stacey Wiseman | Oct 5, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
I love this photo book cover!!! Inspired by an image I found on pinterest, I selected a photograph to fill the entire cover and then place the title of the book in a gray box using a classic looking font. Another gray box indicates the family name of the year of the annual family photo book. This photo book cover is extremely classy and sophisticated.
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by Stacey Wiseman | Sep 28, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
This cover design is similar to last week’s design, yet in this case, the font is bold and bright. You don’t have to go with a black background to get a cover like this, but I suggest selecting two contrasting colors for the background and the font color. You want there to be a difference in order to make the font really stand out.
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by Stacey Wiseman | Sep 21, 2012 | Cover Series, Photo Book Design Layout
This cover is serious and silly at the same time. A silly black and white photo is paired with a stark black background and a thin gray text. The font happily takes a backset in this design…and that is the point. Nothing over-done. It is very simple…and in its simplicity, it makes you want to pick it up and view the pages inside.
The inspiration for this cover is on my pinterest board “Layouts.” Are you following me yet?
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by Stacey Wiseman | Sep 20, 2012 | Description, Photo Book Design Layout, Product Feature
Do you have a family member or loved one who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease?
Are you looking for a way to review treasured family photos with your loved one during visits?
Would love one place to have your favorite photos documenting a beautiful life span?
Then let Book This Project transform your photographs into a custom one-of-a-kind photo book.
My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2005. Throughout his disease progression, many aspects of his life may have deteriorated but our bond and relationship grew. We spent many afternoons together going over old family photos. Not only did this spark wonderful memories that we could share together but it always gave us something familiar to talk about. We were never for a loss of words or loving glances when we could look at photographs. My father passed away in August of 2012 but his life, memory and love is preserved in a beautiful heirloom.
As the founder of Book This Project, I started this company because I realized how important it is to have your favorite photos all in one place. Today, we are all so busy, it is hard to print photos or share everyday moments with loved ones. This product is the stress-free solution to accomplish an unbelievably gorgeous, professional photo book.
As creative director, I will personally design your book – each page – to maximize your photographs.
Here is a brief video to show the impact of owning a specially designed photo book.
If you are curious to see a full example, here is the book I created for my dad.
benefits
- A custom design for your entire book. A concept design is created for your personal photographs to achieve beautiful individual pages as well as a collective book that makes sense as a whole. Each design features an organizing principle that factors the content, orientation, proportion, and color of your photographs into each page layout.
- Sophisticated, modern designs. A variety of styles, colors, fonts and layouts are possible. Have a specific look in mind? Send me an image and I will let you know if I can replicate the style for your photo book.
- Design professional. As a professional, I utilize my years as a designer and my love of researching new ideas into each and every book I design.
- Tremendous customer service experience. Incorporating your family photographs into a photo book is an extremely personal process and I treat each customer with an immense amount of respect, care and love.
features
- Customized design based on your photographs.
- Book organized by events.
- Table of contents (by events).
- Creative cover design.
- $100 of your order is donated to an organization of your choice in honor of your loved one.
