Fundy v10 is here!

Our friends at Fundy Design have a great announcement, the Fundy Designer v10 is Live, please check their website for your upgrade and if you are new you should really check this amazing album designer software.

We are excited to announce that Fundy Designer v10 is LIVE! 

Fundy Designer V10 is HERE with the world’s only drop zone technology and 5 more groundbreaking features, Fundy Designer is the all-in-one suite for stunning albums, wall art collections, cards and studio magazines, with built in skin retouching, exposure correction, online proofer and slideshows. 

What a year it's been!!!

I wanted to write a short blog post to summarize what we have done this past year. I wanted this blog to be short and sweet, but it won’t be. I started writing down places we have been, people and projects we have collaborated with, new products we have introduced. My notebook page started to fill up quickly and soon I realized this:

Team QT!!! You’re freakin’ awesome!

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places

Now I’d better get to the point! So let’s start with where we have been. We started with a visit to USA - Marfa, Texas precisely - The Field Trip (what an experience!). Soon after that we went to Birmingham for the Photography Show (which btw we will be attending upcoming year too!). Then a short break and next event was already lined up - Snap UK. Sadly - this was the last time we gathered with Laura Babb and her folks in Snap formula, but we’re sure will meet up again. Oh wait! Missed one event… Way up North Cannes ;-) This location was amazing and Team QT has once again done a great job! So it turned out that we went to Stockholm for another WUN! Jamie, our USA colleague was the most lucky - she got to sail on a cruise ship! Sipping cocktails and getting a tan - good for you Jamie. We hope you enjoyed Cuba while we were in the offices!

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Yeah Field Trip Marfa TX

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Way Up North Stockholm

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Havana- Mystic Seminars

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Snap Photography Festival

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people

While travelling and attending different workshops, we met some amazing people. It was great to sit in a cafe in Cannes with Sam Hurd, enjoy the cruise ship with a company of Eirik Halvorsen, and let’s not forget the one and only Wyn Wiley. We got in touch with Chris Garbacz from Studio Ninja and started our collaboration, we continued to work with the amazing Twyla Jones - bunch of free prints samples and clamshell boxes went to photographers from Emotional Storytellin FB Group that Twyla is running. Our cream fudges were sent to ARC Canada, our Polish Vodka was the main attraction at the last SNAP. Let’s Go Workshop in Oregon, Atelier Preface Portfolio Workshop in Marocco, I Do Community, Speak Now’19, any many, many more.

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WYN WILEY

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TWYLA JONES

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CHRIS GARBACZ

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SAM HURD

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EIRIK HALVORSEN

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LAURA BABB

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how we have grown

Did you know that all these products listed below have just been introduced in the past year? We love them so much and it feels like they have been part of our range for much longer, but no! They are all new:

The Journal Artbook - born somewhere between December 2019/ January 2019 - our top luxury album that makes people go WOW!

Folio & Matted Deckled Prints - born around springtime 2019 - a great addition to our range of products as it’s perfect for family & newborn photography.

The BloomBook - May 2019 - so young and so popular, mainly because it’s environtmentally friendly and very affordable, while still keeping the QT quality standards

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THE JOURNAL

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FOLIO

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MATTED DECKLED PRINTS

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THE BLOOMBOOK

New EUR Shop opened in November 2019 - based on Shopify platform, new shop is user friendly and has all of our products available in EUR currency.

Number of orders - every month, compared to previous year has brought us a significant increase in number of orders and November 2019 was the busiest month in QT history when it comes to new orders. We are present at the Pic-Time platform and we are happy to see that we’re so oftenly chosen as a supplier.

It’s thanks to you - our clients - that we have now reduced plastic in packaging to bare minimum. We started using biodegradable eco bubbles just this year - and with the amount of parcels that were sent out this year…wow…you would fill a house with it! So it’s good it’s not plastic anymore.

We could not do this all without a support and encouragement from you guys. We love to see you posting photos and stories with QtAlbums products and hearing how happy you are with our work. Even if we make mistakes, we are there to correct them, to learn from them and move on.

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Wishing you all happy Christmas, happy Holidays, happy “I’m not doing a thing” days - whatever you are celebrating. Let this New Year be as good as the last one or maybe even better!

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Emma & James love their QT Album

This week we would love to share a blog post by Hannah Hall, one of the photographers who attended Snap Festival. She loved our albums so much that she decided to switch her old supplier to QtAlbums. We couldn’t be more happy and grateful for choosing us! We are even more delighted to hear that Emma & James, who were Hannah’s clients, loved their album too!

“I loved their finish, the attention to detail and access to round the clock support and advice which I hadn’t had with my previous company. Also, being half Polish, I absolutely loved supporting a business based in Poland”

— Hannah Hall

Hannah also shared what Emma & James, her wedding couple, thought about their album. This lovely comment puts a smile on our faces, but the final product is a combination of great photos, the right design, and a quality lab. That’s why we love to work with professionals like Hannah. This is what Emma and James said about their album.

“The album has been beautifully designed and shows the timeline of our day, all the happy, funny, exciting, beautiful moments we had with friends and family! The detail you can see in the photos is superb and we keep on spotting new little bits in each picture that really brings back the memories of the day!”

— Emma & James

Thank you so much Hannah, Emma and James!

Check out Hannah’s Instagram!

The NEW BloomBook

May is the month when everything is blooming and coming to life. Our idea of an zero-waste & pocket-friendly album with a presentation box was growing for the last few months.

We have planted this vision in our heads a little while ago when we introduced biodegradable air-cushions. We wanted to create a product that would use some recycled materials and bits & pieces that would otherwise go to waste.

This idea is now in full bloom! And it’s called a BloomBook! How original…! 😉

So let me give you some details about the BloomBook. We bulk buy the material – the raw linen. That saves us money by reducing transportation costs, and generally, we can negotiate a better price.

As we offer just one size (20x20cm) we can have the material cut by a machine, which leaves very little material wasted. The Bloom Book comes in a presentation box, which is included in the price. The outer box is made of 3 mm cardboard from recycling, not actual wood.

The wooden frame inside the box is made of wood chips of an alder tree and it’s attached to the box with screws, so very little glue is needed – which means fewer chemicals.

As the money doesn’t grow on trees, we can now offer a product that is of very high quality yet super affordable. From only 65$ you can have the album and the presentation box! It’s a great entry level album for anybody who is starting to offer albums.