We produce books that are
among the highest quality that can be found, and we produce them for
those who want the best.
Please Note: Due to
steadily increasing inquiries about our custom coffee table book design
and production services, we feel we must place a
few notes on quality and expense here. For the visitor to our
site who is looking for "cheap" and inexpensively produced books,
you will not find those here. While there are
certain sources for
cheap photo books, the purchaser of such books should be cautioned that
anyone buying a cheaply made and cheaply sold book will certainly get
what's paid for in making the purchase. Typically, such books that
can be bought cheaply can be seen by virtue of price alone as warning
sign about what can be expected. Low price generally means low quality pages and covers, questionable workmanship, poor
production values, and little or no attention paid to design aesthetics
and layout options –
and usually, little attention paid to what the client would really like
to have.
In some cases, such lack in quality is of little concern, when all the
purchaser wants
is a cheaply and inexpensively published book. However, we DO NOT produce those
kinds cheaply made and cheaply sold books. "Cheap" books are not something we
will allow ourselves to be
associated with on any level, so we work with only the best books. A really good quality, custom
designed and personalized coffee table photo book simply
cannot be produced and sold cheaply. The production cost alone
from a professional book publisher prohibits selling them as inexpensive
items. Design and layout time, if the books are done with proper
care and attention to detail, generally requires many days
–
sometimes weeks, cumulatively
–
of professional design effort in collaboration with the client. If you, as our client, want the best possible
quality coffee table photo book produced from your photos, and you want the
designers and producers to pay attention to what you envision in terms of
layout, design and production, then you can contact us with confidence.
We can design a book as simply or elaborately as the client wants, but
all of our books (whether simple or complex in design) emphasize
high-quality design and production values.
We take the necessary time
and make a conscientious effort to produce some of the finest personalized coffee table
photo books that can be made. We work only with the best
publishers in the business to ensure that ours are among the most outstanding
personal coffee table books in which any individual or family can
invest. We take the time to create multiple design layout options
for each of our books, and during the design phase we give our clients
multiple visual choices for every page in their book. We actively
solicit our client's feedback at several stages during book design to
ensure that each book evolves into as fine a finished product as
possible.
A great coffee table photo book is not designed and
published in a day or two and in most cases not even in a week or two. Although we
can work quickly when needed (and occasionally, quick designs and
turnaround are
needed), most of our books take several weeks to finalize due to our
attention to detail and our willingness to make necessary revisions along the way based on client feedback.
You give us your photos and your initial book ideas, and we present you with an
initial design concept. You provide feedback on that design, and we
respond in whatever way necessary to incorporate further input from you.
Sometimes, our initial designs are exactly on target with what the client
wants, and at other times we need to make certain layout revisions to
fine-tune the books. We are willing to go through the fine-tuning
process until each book has grown from a mere initial concept into a fully
fleshed-out book that meets the client's expectations.
Our final designs are printed on
exceptionally high quality book pages and optionally bound in leather (in finely
boxed leather volumes or designed with photo-style book covers and
matching dust jackets). The paper/print stock used by our
publishers/binders puts
even the best of book store coffee table books to shame
– this is
no exaggeration, but simple fact. The pages and paper stock used
in our books are designed for photo printing (to bring out the best in
each book's photos), and not merely text-quality pages that happen to
have photos printed on them. The difference in look and feel is
unmistakable. The look and feel of the pages in our books is
simply stunning. The word we hear most often when a
client first views one
of our books in person is (literally), "Wow!" And
there is truly a lot of "wow" factor in our books, a big part of which
is our publisher's/binder's dedication to exceptionally high production
values necessary in producing high-end coffee table photo books.
From our dedicated design and layout efforts through the publisher's/binder's book
production materials and techniques, the best in design and production
values go into our books.
Our books are not "cheap,"
but when you hold the final product in your hands, and page through the
captured moments of your life that you cared about enough to preserve in
coffee table book form, you know that your money has been well invested. So, if
you are really looking for the best you can get (heirloom quality), you are looking in the
right place -
and we welcome your inquiries. And, we
sincerely thank you for considering our design and publication services.