Yay…another installment of ‘finders keepers’ here on the Purple Nickel Blog!!! It’s been awhile and I do miss sharing all the goodies we like, love and lust over.   Or should I say ‘drool’ over. Well this little find comes all the way from Scottsdale, Arizona! Ok so that’s only like 2 hours away from us here in Tucson but who’s counting. We picked up this cutie on Sunday after hearing about Design Within Reach’s floor model sale!!! Woo Hoo! And all thanks to Gabe, the store manager. SWEET. He promised to hold this Eames Plastic Molded Chair for us until the next time we were up in Phoenix. WE LOVE IT! Yes we only have 1…so far. But can’t wait to start a collection. We need at least 2 right?. And it’s a perfect shade of buttery yellow lime. YUMMY!  And totally perfect for our production office or a studio space.

Speaking of studio spaces, we have been exploring that concept for quite sometime now.  Probably for the last 3 years… but again who’s counting?.  Oh me, that’s right.  Yes… it’s always fun to look and we keep our eye’s peeled wide open for something that would suit our funky creative juices.  But what we’ve seen is that they’re either too dark (meaning NO flippin’ windows), boring drop down popcorn ceilings, musty smelling like a basement, corporate stuffy office-like, no parking that’s near by or for clients, not located near downtown Tucson or is just plain out of our price range.  I’m sure other photographers and biz owners share similar experiences?.  It’s crazy how many ‘duds’ you view.  Honestly I would say it’s just as tough as finding your ‘dream home’.  You know it exists, you just have to be patient.  Or build it! Ha. Well until that time comes (building) we are enjoying our options or at least laughing about them!

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Eric just completed another one of our KILLER mod book designs and we totally want you all to check it out!  SUPER FUN!!!  This book was designed for the Puddy’s family portrait session we did at the Tempe Center for the Arts.  We LOVE that place and you’ll see why after viewing the images.  It’s totally our style because it contains sleek modern lines and textures.  Plus we kinda have a soft spot for large concrete walls.  Ok so below are a few spreads we selected to showcase that represent our style when designing our custom books.  The book is being constructed by one of our favorite album vendors COUTURE | BOOK.  We LOVE their products and can’t get enough of em’.

This book contains 43 spreads, 88 pages total.  WHOA…that must sound like a lot but actually it’s very simple to achieve especially if you were doing weddings.  It just takes creative thinking + simplicity.  Also back in March while attending WPPI we stumbled across the Harrison’s booth (another awesome husband + wife photography duo) to check out their latest album template creations!   H2O | CREATIVE is a branch of their company, launched to help enhance the creative work flow of other like-minded photographers.  They offer RAD customizable INDESIGN album templates for the MODERN artist.  We used their templates as inspiration for this one.  You gotta check them out!!!  Eric used to layout all our albums in PS, but not anymore. INDESIGN is the way to go…trust us.  Once you have it all set up and get the gist of things it’s PERFECTION! Plus, since we incorporate graphic elements in our MOD books it makes sense to use a program that’s vector based… {insert happy face here}.











To check out the whole book design…click HERE!!!

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