It’s that time again, the end of summer blues. I’m heading off for a short vacation and am closing the Willow Album Design Offices from August 22-28. Emails will not be answered, album approvals and uploads will have to wait until I return. When I do return, it will be the start of the fall...
Category Archives: Color Blocked
Mixing Album Design Styles
Leslie just sent this wedding over to me, asking me to design her a killer sample since the wedding was in Paris, France. Since Leslie does a lot of Organic Design wedding albums, I thought keeping that idea and expanding a bit would be great for a sample album. I sampled colors from the bride’s...
Fresh and Clean Album with Spring Green Accents
Ruben Parra sent this beautiful wedding over a few weeks ago. I’m just starting the revision stage of the album with him and his client, but wanted to show the original album as it’s a beautiful, clean, and modern album design. Stats: Color-Blocked Album Design, 120 images, 50 pages, 12×12 A few favorite spreads:
Heidi Peters Album
Heidi Peters sent me a few photos of her beautiful fall album. Finao bound the album with the Fox Downs non-leather material, and I think it looks great. Thanks to Heidi for trusting me with her album design and sending me the final product images!
WPPI and Closure News
Willow Album Design will be at WPPI! I’ll be at the Finao Albums booth each day of the tradeshow if you’d like to meet me, and at various functions and parties from March 6-10. Also, I’m taking a little vacation after WPPI. I’m not closing, but will be suspending normal turnaround from March 4-21. I’ll...
Premium Color-Blocked design emphasizes portraits
Miguel Pola sent this design over on the last day of my January album sale! He included a great mix of portraits and I used the 40 page design to emphasize those images. Stats: 12×12, 103 images, 42 pages, premium design, color-blocked style
Illinois Color-Blocked Album Design
Last week I received a gorgeous set of images from Heidi Peters Photography. I love how her processing really matches the style of the wedding, and was happy to incorporate colors from their fall-themed wedding into the album design. Stats: 12×12, 30 pages, Color-Blocked design, 61 images
Color-Blocked Wedding Album with Black Accents
Erik Matey finally sent a design into me, and I’m so glad he did! We chose a color-blocked design with black accents. This book is bound for inkjet printing, and I know the colors will pop right off the page! Stats: 14×11, 34 pages, premium Color-Blocked design, 75 images The cover:
Fresh, clean, Hot Pink Album Design
I just finished this album for Sarah Postma and couldn’t wait to share it! It’s a clean, contemporary album with hot pink color blocks to match the bridesmaids dresses. Stats: 78 images, 34 pages, Color-Blocked design, 10×10 square album
Plum and Sage Color-Blocked Album Design
Images courtesy of Turn Loose the Art We wove Phyllis’s wedding colors plum and sage throughout the album in color blocks alongside images. This 10×15 album was just sent off to Finao and we can’t wait to get it back! This is a complete color-blocked album design.
Gray and Gold Album Design
All images courtesy Allegra’s Studio. Allegra asked me to base her album design bound for Queensbery on an older design that I called Citrus. This is, of course, one of the reasons I like keeping so many designs available for viewing!
Dotted in Blue – a color-blocked album design
All images courtesy of Miguel Pola Photographers. Miguel asked for a color-blocked album design emulating the style on a previous post here, and I was happy to oblige! Dotted color bars don’t fit all albums, but I think they enhance this design nicely.
Red Color-Blocked Style Wedding Album by Willow Album Design
All images in this bold, red, color-blocked album design courtesy of Jerry Frazier/FP Weddings
Bold Red – Album Design
Barbara’s wedding was done with a bold red, and I knew her album needed to reflect that. This color-blocked style album fits perfectly!
Chocolate (Complete Album Design)
This is a complete album design in the color-blocked style. And, as a bonus, the cover design for this album
Citrus Album Design
This citrus-themed wedding flowed right into the album design with beautiful color blocks and organic elements in vibrant, citrus colors.
Rust – Album Design
A beautiful fall wedding deserves rustic fall colors all over the album design.
