Mi cumple,mi historia
A birthday book built by the people who know you best.
Every birthday, the people in a child's life add a page about what they saw, what changed and what they want the child to remember.
It started with...
I wanted to create a birthday tradition that wasn't about the presents.
For children, birthdays can quickly become about the party, the cake and the gifts.
I wanted to add something different: a few minutes each year for the people who love them to write down what they noticed about them that year.
How the book grows
One birthday.
Many voices.
Each year, parents, grandparents, siblings, relatives, friends or anyone important to the child can add a page.
The same people can return each year. New people can join. Someone can participate for only one birthday.
That's part of the design.
Each page captures something different about the child that year.
The child tells part of the story.
The people around them tell the rest.
The child's pages capture what they loved, learned and dreamed about.
The other pages capture what the people around them noticed.
Years later, they can read both.
The book grows with them.
The questions can return each birthday. The answers change. So do the people, interests and dreams around them.
Over time, those pages become the story.
Year after year, they get to see who they were through the eyes of people who loved them.
One birthday becomes another.
And eventually, a childhood has been written together.
For a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sibling or anyone who wants to give a child something that grows more meaningful with time.
A birthday tradition made not only for the child, but with the people who are part of their story.
Objects to keep
The shop is taking shape.
Some of the ideas in Preserving Meaning are becoming customizable books and printed objects designed to hold stories, traditions and milestones.
Custom books · Personal editions · Printed objects
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