I just discovered this album at AI FRiedman. I love the size of this album. I got 4 and made 4 finished albums as birthday gifts in under 2 hours -- they came out GREAT and everyone loved them! 3 of the Riva colors I got (love the teal-blueish one esp) came with white matte pages, and the red one came with black pages. On that one, I wrote captions with a silver marker right onto the matte pages and it looked very cool. I almost journaled on the white-page Riva albums, too, but they looked so pristine with just the photo on each page, that I decided not to touch those. Looks great both ways, whether you write on the pages or not.

I adore this album! I just bought it in black and am using it as a permanent coffee table brag book. Right now, it’s showing off photos from our recent trip to England… but in a couple weeks, I’ll rotate in Halloween party pictures, followed by Thanksgiving, Christmas travels, etc. The pre-cut mattes make it so easy to do these monthly updates… no glue, photo corners, or scissors necessary. And all of the rotated-out pics? Straight into a Hudson 3-Up. Quick, easy, and beautiful.

Oooh. I didn't even know about this album. Oh, it would rock if I could get one to hold 5x7 prints...but I have still got to get one!

I started a small project using Riva not long ago and I love it: http://moleskine.vox.com/library/post/human-nature-through-travel.html