Book Study

Imagine participating in a Book Club discussing books that will inspire your creativity and motivate you to take action! That’s exactly what these Book Study lessons are about. I share my key summaries and take-aways so you feel creatively inspired. 

Even if you’ve read the books, these lessons will remind you of key thoughts and show you how to apply them to your creative endeavors. 

As you can see from the sample pages, I use a layout design to boil down the essential text into easily-digestable content. I use pull-out boxes with larger text boxes to call out specific quotes or ways to use the book to challenge you. 

Design Lessons

I loved preparing these design lessons!!! In this section, I cover a few foundational design concepts that have a big impact for designing layouts and working on a photo book. 

These lessons illustrate how with a few simple yet intentional strategies you can transform standard layouts into striking, professional layouts. And key to designing photo books, is to make overwhelming. Add design elements to section pages or page numbers and you’ve immediately elevated your book design. 

In these sample pages, I share strategies and examples on how planes are defined throughout design. Then on the next page, I convey how I translated those concepts into potential layouts for a photo book. I provide a range from simple to more complex to give you a range for inspiration. 

Special Photo Book Project

Often I recommend people who haven’t finished a photo book project to start with a simple, themed photo book. This could be a book documenting a summer vacation or your favorite photos from the summer. With this as a starting point, it’s easier to limit the photos you need to select and the pages you need to prepare. 

It’s also easy to test out different design ideas or to be more creative with your layouts when working on a special photo book project. 

This section illustrates how to walk through a special themed photo book from start to finish. For this example, I use what I refer to as a Two Days in 6 Months Photo Book. Document a Day in the Life, separated by 6 months and design a photo book. I walk you through how I get inspiration by analyzing magazines, how I select photos for this project, and share two screen-share videos showing you how I design the pages. 

“Tips to Inspire my Progress”