Photo Book Design
Telling your family’s story, one year at a time.
“…beyond anything I could have imagined...”
“When I opened the book for the first time, I was absolutely blown away. Allison had taken my collection of 3,000 photos from a study-abroad trip 20 years ago, and transformed them into a stunning, one-of-a-kind book that beautifully captured this special moment in my life.
This project was deeply personal, and Allison treated it with the care and creativity it deserved. The final book is beyond anything I could have imagined. Thank you, Allison, for turning my cherished adventure into a meaningful and timeless keepsake!”
- Christina
I created Yearbooks as a service to fight against the tide of forgotten memories.
We moved when my daughter was three. The driveway where we rode bikes, the formal sitting room-turned playroom where we spent whole days of time, the room where I rocked her to sleep every single night of her life (sometimes multiple times a night) until we moved - we left that all behind when we moved.
I realized recently that she now remembers very little from the first three years of her life. Very ordinary and precious parts of her life, zapped out of her head by the sands of time. So many moments photographed and never printed. The only photos we have of life at “the old house” are in the cloud. They’re out of reach for her.
This is why Yearbooks are important. Kids in her generation don’t have photo albums, don’t have access to tangible photos of themselves, and don’t remember the most precious, ordinary moments of life that have faded from their memories.
I am not a robot.
It would be faster and cheaper if I was a robot. It would be easier if I sent my photos to a big company to let their AI models decide which photos should be included in a photo book, but I hate the idea of a machine deciding what’s important for me to remember.
It has no heart.
It deletes photos of my daughter with her signature toddler scrunchy face because it thinks her eyes are closed. It removes the images of my babies sleeping because their eyes *are* closed. It thinks that any photos that are blurry are unworthy of being printed.
It doesn’t understand the story my family is telling, and it can’t tell it for us.
Yearbooks combine the thing I need (a completed photo book for my family to keep) with the service I want (a caring human who curates and creates the book from the hundreds of photos you’ve taken over the course of a year).
I want to know, before I make your book: what’s most important to you to remember in this book?
Yearbook Rates and Details
A curated photo book, telling the story you want to remember, using the photos you’ve been taking all along the way.
Included:
Your personal images, narrowed down to 300 of the best and delivered in a gallery that you can download directly to your computer
A 50 page, 8x10” layflat book that fits perfectly on your shelf, designed with professionally-printed pages and photographic quality, filled with 300 of your best and favorite images
A slideshow of those 300 images, set to music, that you can keep and view on any device
My recommendation of 12 of your best images to print and hang around your home (or make into a calendar), as well as suggestions of where to print them
Yearbook pricing is based on the number of starting images and starts at $500.
Still not sure if Yearbooks are right for you?
FAQ’s
(You have questions. You’re not the only one.)
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I’ll send you instructions on how to quickly and easily upload your images to a secure gallery, when we’re ready to get started. If you already have your photos gathered in one place on your computer, you can skip step 1!
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You’ll be sending me duplicates, not originals, so I’ll delete the ones that we don’t use for the project and send you the keepers in your own gallery. Once you download your gallery, I’ll delete the keepers too. I won’t keep any of your personal photos and I won’t use them for anything.
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Nope! If you’d rather do a baby book or a commemorative book over a series of years, or even a special event book, I’m happy to help with that instead of a book that covers a given year.
