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Is your accumulation of pictures, keepsakes and miscellaneous memorabilia getting out of hand? Are the mementos you care about getting lost in anonymous albums or over-stuffed storage boxes? Is the pleasure fading too fast after a week at the beach or a moment in the sun? Maybe it's time to refresh your memories.
Why not let Finder Keepers Design bring new life to the people, places, times and treasures that you and your loved ones want to remember? We'll transform your buried treasures into artwork, gifts, what-nots and whimsies you can enjoy every day.
Here are some examples to get you thinking. (Click
images for a closer look.)
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These side-by-side digital montages commemorate the lives and loves of a client's late parents. Each 11" x 14" collage includes about 25 pictures, documents, graphic and text elements arranged in an inward-spiralling chronology. Our client gave the montages to her brother as gifts to thank him for taking care of Mom and Dad through their final years.
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Mixed-media MemoryLogue
When her daughter returned with thousands of pictures and mementoes from a college semester of study and travel abroad, our client asked us to curate the collection and transform it into a memorable+manageable chronicle of the girl's excursions and encounters.
The result: a 9" x 12" post-bound album in ten sections, each with a distinct visual theme, combining hundreds of photos – resized, revised, graphically enhanced and arranged to best advantage – with dozens of souvenirs from theatre tickets and gallery catalogues to restaurant menus and hotel room keys.
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90 Amazing Years (2009)
This multi-media montage was commissioned by five families to celebrate and congratulate their grand progenitor on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
The 15-minute animated slideshow/video (excerpted here) was shown to guests at the birthday bash, where the leading man was also presented with a hardbound companion book for his coffee table.
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| Thanks for the Memories (2005/2007)
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For her fiftieth birthday, our client's mother treated her to a week in Italy. Using the pictures, receipts, itineraries, maps and other mementoes she had saved, we created a mixed-media memory album, which our client gave as a thank-you gift to her mother.
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Personal Scrapbook Pages (2007)
This 12-inch square scrapbook page features images from the passport that belonged to our client's late mother. It includes a stamp from Naples, 1933, when the mother immigrated to the US.
Our client used several such pages in scrapbooks she created for her four brothers, all now in their 70s and 80s.
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Six Generations (2005-2006)
This five-foot square wall-hanging chronicles nearly two centuries of a young family's heritage. Restored and colorized pictures from the family archive are printed on habotai silk and individually appliqued, along with bits of fabric, jewelry and other ancestral hand-me-downs on a backdrop of heavy gold moiré.
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