At the WPPI tradeshow in Vegas, I got to poke around about 10 billion vendor booths in a conference hall bigger than many small countries. You wouldn’t believe the amount of stuff there — everything from studio management software developers to album vendors to companies that print your studio logo on stickers and buttons. Buttons?
Anyway, I stopped by the PictoBooks booth and was floored. Every once in a while I make a PictoBook, which I think are about the coolest book out there, but I haven’t had a chance to look over their entire collection of albums (which they had on display at the booth). Wow.
I’m kind of realizing that a lot of flush mounted wedding albums wind up looking pretty similar, but the PictoBooks really stand out in the crowd. The cover materials are all unique — you can get them with metals, woods, leathers and even a faux-graphite material that looks pretty neat. I also like the way the cover cameos are made; the prints are covered in a thick layer of clear acrylic with smooth edges. It’s almost like a bubble.
I’ll have an in depth tour of one of these books in the coming month, as I currently have one on order, but I wanted this post to show off some of the cool cover options I discovered. I’m going to revamp my album offerings this year, and will now be offering books from ZookBinders, Pictobooks, Finao, Leather Craftsman and Willowbooks. Excited to let you all know more about them as the year progresses.
Sorry for the poor quality of these images — they’re all I could manage with a point and shoot while being jostled around by 12,000 wedding photographers (seriously, that’s not an exaggeration — the show really had 12,000 attendees!!).
