A Little Q&A With Our Founder: The Story Behind TRAVEL

The Story Behind TRAVEL

A lifetime of adventures, all in one place. Our founder Hanna on holidays, memory keeping, and why the trip deserves more than your camera roll.

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What inspired you to create the TRAVEL Collection?

I've always found it funny how we can barely remember what we did last Tuesday, but we can remember a family holiday from 15 years ago.

The car packed to the roof, the first run into the ocean, the ice cream melting faster than you could eat it.

There's something about travelling and the memories we make along the way that stays with us forever. I wanted to create somewhere for all of those moments to live.

Hanna as a little girl on a family holiday

Why do you think travel memories are so special?

I think it's because we're doing things outside our everyday routines. We're somewhere new, surrounded by different people, places and experiences.

And sometimes it's the smallest moments that end up being the ones we remember most.

Hanna's travels: Albania, New Zealand, Africa, Copenhagen, Greece and Morocco

Albania · NZ · Africa · Copenhagen · Greece · Morocco

Why do you think it's important to print your travel photos?

We spend months planning a holiday, saving our money and travelling across the world, only to come home and leave hundreds of photos buried in our camera rolls between screenshots and receipts.

I think that's such a shame.

One day, those photos will be old photos. The ones your children will want to see, the ones you'll pass around the table and laugh about.

Holding up the TRAVEL album by MEMS

What makes the TRAVEL Collection different?

I wanted it to feel like more than just a photo album.

Somewhere to keep your photos alongside postcards, handwritten notes, plane tickets and all the little things you collect along the way.

Something beautiful enough to sit on your coffee table, but personal enough to tell your own story.

“You don't need to print every single photo to tell a beautiful story.”

What would you say to someone who has thousands of travel photos sitting on their phone?

Don't overthink it!

Start with one trip. Choose 50 photos you love, print them, pour yourself a cup of tea and spend an afternoon going back through those memories.

You don't need to print every single photo to tell a beautiful story.

What do you hope people feel when they open their TRAVEL album years from now?

I hope it takes them straight back.

To the people they were with, the places they explored and all the little moments they might have otherwise forgotten.

Because that's what memory keeping is really about.

A lifetime of adventures, all in one place.

Hanna x

The TRAVEL Collection on the shelf: Hearts Full of Wanderlust

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The TRAVEL Collection

TRAVEL Photo Album ~ Olive · up to 320 prints
MINI Travel ~ Olive · 50 prints

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