Manhattan artist Christine Cincotta is a school teacher. During her summer off, she revamped her photo storage, upgrading old, worn photo boxes to archival Kolo Havana Boxes.

Christine unleashed her creativity on the window labels, color-coding them with watercolor patterns. To ink the words, she used an Edison Mina fountain pen made from a lavender Ebonite or hard rubber that is “very warm in the hand and a delight to draw with.” She then used Platinum Carbon Black waterproof fountain-pen ink and Schmincke watercolors on Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper to create her mini works of art.

Now Christine's photos and ephemera are safely stowed in archival storage boxes she’s proud to show off. The Kolo Havana Boxes are such a step up -- they really look beautiful!

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After many requests to bring back the popular Kolo Vineyard paper album, it’s finally been re-introduced in more than ten vibrant colors - many new to the Kolo color palette. It is designed with smooth covers made of 80 lb. archival paper and made in America.

The Kolo Vineyard has a charming ribbon closure and is available in two sizes: 5”x7” or 7”x8”. Perfect for 4”x6” prints, it works great as a photo-proof book, recipe booklet, brag book, travel log, baby announcement or special invitation.

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Kolo announces a photo-book upgrade: the new lay-flat pages. Their unique hinge technology allows these pages to lie flat while the photo book is opened.

Unlike most photo books, Kolo photo books allow users the flexibility to add, remove and rearrange pages after their photo book is made. A Kolo photo book with either standard pages or the new lay-flat pages offers this same flexibility because each is made with the same innovative post-binding system that makes it easy to disassemble and reassemble the book.

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We just lowered prices on Kolo Photo Books.
AND for Koloist and Facebook Fans, free ground shipping (within the U.S.) of Kolo Photo Books.*
AND for Koloist and Facebook Fans, free ground-shipping for any Kolo order of $100 or more.*

* Offer good through July 31, 2012, 11:59 pm ET. Use Coupon Code FREESHIP712 at checkout.

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Pro photographers were the first to discover Kolo. Many use Kolo’s easy-load albums to show proofs, and scrapbook-style albums or photo books to let their photographs really shine.

Here’s a Kolo Newbury album, embossed by Jenni Bick Bookbinding, that photographer Melissa Perella created for her newlywed clients. (Custom embossing is also available at Kolo. More information on that here.)

Melissa calls her finished albums "storybooks." She prefers classic albums over photo books, as she explains in her blog. For more of Melissa's thoughts on the subject, as well as photos of her storybooks, go here.

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