The Research

I had more the 10,000 pictures what I did first is create a folder for each year and on those folders i created subfolders of each event or holiday. Then i choose the best pictures and created titles for each.

For example:

2006

• Senior year 
• Christmas break 
• Shaikha and Hamad

2007

• London
• Paris

2008

• Brothers and sisters 
• Trip to Dubai 
• Chalet
• Friends
• Celebrating Christmas with my family 
• A trip to New York 
• Sea world
• The zoo
• Legoland
• La Jolla beach 
• A trip to Los Angeles 
• Warner brothers 

2009 / 2010

• Family gathering 
• Shaikha's 6 th birthday
• A trip to London 

2011

• Coldplay concert 
• Haya's bridal shower and engagement party 
• Tashkeel workshop, Dubai
• Graduated from AUK
• Celebrating my 23rd birthday 
• Summer San Diego 

2012

• London 
• Summer,turkey 

2013 / 2014

• Baby M
• Nouf graduation 
• My 25th birthday 
• Nouma's engagement and wedding party 
• London 
• MA communication design

I also created an ebook of my album I now have it in my laptop, iPad and my iPhone.

(The pictures look small here because they are confidential)

The Layout

My layout is Square 28 x 28 cm , plus the bleed which is 1.85 cm

 The layout guideline for my album

Example of the Layout guideline

Brief & Concept Solution (Treasuring Memories)

Treasuring Memories

In the early 21^st century, we could only dream of owning mobile phones but nowadays we live in times when the mobile phones carry the most prominent of features. These include mind boggling applications, high resolution cameras and large enough memory to handle our desired wants and needs, not forgetting to mention the exceptional screen resolution that can go toe to toe with many expensive digital cameras. This advancement in mobile phone technology and their mobility and affordable status has made it possible for people to be able to document everyday life memories and occurrences by easily taking a snap using their smartphone cameras (Hagen 3). However, hear lies the huge conundrum. Has the digital photos led to complacency in backing up pictures? Do people treasure these memories anymore? Do they create albums? Sadly, many individuals do not.

My cousin has three kids and interestingly is in no possession of even one album of her children. Her most plausible defense being she does not have the time to develop the myriad digital photos she has. However, when confronted on where all those multiple photos were, she came close to having no clue, even admitting having lost half of them. My cousin stands only as an example to most of us, including you and me, on how we have become negligent on the habit of backing up photos.

Admittedly, I also had to cure myself of this epidemic of not backing up pictures quite recently. I had accumulated thousands of photos in my computer that made it quite hectic a process to organize them. Nonetheless, what I did was cease the folders I had for each year and create in them subfolders for each activity or relation as suggested by Hagen (10). I created subfolders for trips, family, friends and an extra one for insignificant photos. This enabled me to create, organize and back up an album of my pictures from year 2006 till 2014. This included all my treasured memories I had captured in the whole eight year period.

Works Cited

Hagen, Mike. Thousands of Images, Now What ?: Painlessly Organize, Save and Back Up Your Digital Photos. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2012. Print.

Manifasto

1. Coffee 
2. Time Management 
3. Break The Rules
4. Smile
5. Never Stop
6. Fail
7. Take Risks
8. Travel
9. Creativity
10. Challenge