Built for creators like you.
An innovative approach developed to delight yearbookers, and those who teach them.
One deadline is the new freedom. A flex, if you will.
Don’t let arbitrary deadlines stifle your creativity, or your book’s potential. We don’t just teach modular design. We retrain what designers see.
Structure isn’t a constraint. It’s a conversation.
Between chaos and clarity. Between the story and the space it needs to live.
Guided by my gurus and shaped for the modern storyteller,
we help yearbookers find the rhythm in restraint. Modular moments create cohesion and architecture. Then, flexibility and content pacing become forms of art.
When your design has purpose and your stories follow your life, a deadline won’t hold you back.
It sets you free.
Every story deserves a blank page that listens.
Just like the pros, drag and drop content packages, and even entire spreads, around your ladder to your heart’s content.
With her entire issue on the gallery wall, editor Sophie Grove reviews the content and pacing of the UK’s Konfekt magazine. “I spent most of my teens making montages from various magazines,” Grove said reflecting on the tactile foots of publication design. Printing spreads so creators can “live among the content” provides a next-level opportunity to monitor visual pacing, catch inconsistencies in type and spacing and give editors a literal immersive review of their publications. Pictavo’s leader, Steve Kent, introduced this experience with his award-winning staffs in Virginia and attributes their success to these kinds of real-world techniques.
I’ve filled my kit with resources to help you create and sell your book.
Reference materials you need either to keep nearby or to see “to scale” and at actual print size — Welcome and Quick-Start Guide, Pictavo Users Guide and the industry’s most comprehensive Type Guide — are included. All other, digital support materials reside on the help site.
But, it’s more than production schedules and creative freedom. My gurus are on-call when you need them.
Copy and interview coaching? Yep.
Staff motivation and content wrangling? That’s our jam.
Pro-level design and concept advice? You bet.
Looking to compete nationally? Check our track record.
Zoomed-in, eagle-eye detail work? We live for it!
Just ask your rep. I’m here to channel the chaos and rally the restless!