Keeping up with Dane Sanders

Designing to me has to be one of the most relaxing things, I would say it falls right under running:) Designing is also very exciting as well. I love receiving an order and opening the folder to see what that photographer has captured for that event. One photographer that always inspires me and blows me away is Dane Sanders. Dane travels all over for wedding photography and I love seeing where he's been. For the last two weddings he was sent to Hawaii for one and Mexico for another. The images were breath taking and I can't wait to post the Mexico wedding as well. Not only is Dane busy with weddings, but he also runs a forum, keeps up with his blog and just finished writing a book called "Fast Track Photographer".

For Dane I design 10x14 vertical flushmount, LeatherCraftsmen albums. LC does a great job and I would highly recommend checking them out.

I'm always asked what album company I would recommend and as of right now I would say that Leathercraftsmen and Kiss Wedding Books are two of my favorite album companies. I'm also looking into the Couture Books. As a designer I don't really get to see very many of the end products but I saw a few of their albums at WPPI and I was impressed.

For this album I designed the Le MIx album design style, just in case a few of you were wondering:)

Enjoy! Also, don't forget to check out Dane's amazing website and blog. Definitely watch the beginning intro to his site:)

Dane's Website

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Love at first glance:)

A photographer that I've been fortunate to work with is John Lyons. Albumesque just started designing for him this last year and right away I knew I was a huge fan the moment I glanced at the first photograph:) I love the expressions, fashion and drama that his photography reveals. Here's a recent album that we designed for John. Amazing work John, and I'm excited to be designing for you:)

- Amy (Albumesque Designer)

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Click here to see John's website:)

Branching out and LOVING it:)

A couple of weeks ago I finished an album design for Me Ra Koh. When Me Ra approached me with this album she said she wanted me to try something a little bit different. Large images, a few small and the bride and grooms vowels throughout the album is how she described her vision for the album design. The Kennedy's have an album very similar and after seeing their book I thought it was a great idea and worth branching out of my design comfort box:) (As I like to call it}. With the Kennedy album style in mind and a little bit of "Amy Flare":) this is what I came up with.

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Click here to see the amazing work of Me Ra Koh


The images that I was working with were amazing and very inspiring. I'm not a huge fan for including words in an album but as soon as I started reading their vowels I again realized that they had to be included because it described the love that the couple had for each other and it brought the album to life.

I think it's so funny how I was hesitant to branch out and try something new but once I started designing I was very thankful that I stepped out of the box and hope to do it more often:)

-Amy (Albumesque Designer)