Brand case study · Picabook

Every memory deserves a cover.

A full rebrand for Picabook, the service that turns the photos on your phone into printed albums, calendars and wall art. New identity, website, illustrations, packaging and print.

Role
Brand designer
Scope
Full rebrand
Market
Hebrew-first, bilingual
Deliverables
Identity, web, packaging, print

Click the album to open it

The brief

Printed memories need a brand you want to hold.

Picabook lets anyone pick photos from their phone or computer, design an album in a few minutes, and get it printed and delivered home.

I was asked for a full rebrand: a new identity, a website, and a family of printed pieces, from business cards and envelopes to product packaging. The brand had to feel warm and personal, read just as well in Hebrew and in Latin, and look good on a phone screen and on the cover of a real book.

The mark

The moment you lift the cover.

CoverLifting off the page
HeartWhat's inside

Every Picabook product begins with one gesture: opening the album. The symbol is exactly that, a red cover lifting off a gray page with a heart inside. It came out of a shape exploration of tabs, folded corners, open books and hand-drawn hearts.

Shape exploration sketches: a tab, a folded page corner, a book icon, an open book in a square, a heart drawn in one line and an open book line.
Shape exploration
Picabook logo: a red cover with a white heart lifting off a gray page, beside the lowercase wordmark.
Picabook logo reversed in white on brand red.
Foundations

Soft, round and bilingual.

A rounded sans that works in Hebrew and in Latin keeps the brand friendly in both languages. The palette is a single confident red, used sparingly, on charcoal and soft gray: the colors of a printed page.

Type · Latin + Hebrew

ABCDEFG abcdefg 012345Latin
אבגדהוז 012345Hebrew

Set here in Varela Round, a close relative of the brand's rounded typeface.

Color · click to copy

Mostly white page, a little red. The red always points at what matters.

Logo in motion

The cover opens.

In motion, the mark does what it promises: the red cover lifts, the heart appears, and the wordmark follows.

Logo animation · 0:08
Illustration & icons

A small world of red details.

A custom set of product icons and spot illustrations explains the service at a glance. Everything is drawn in gray line and fill, and the red heart shows up exactly once per drawing.

Custom icon set: calendar types, albums, year calendars, wall prints and extra services, drawn in red and gray.
Product icons
Picabook red brand panel with spot illustrations: an open album, a tablet, a gift case and a box with a heart.
Spot illustrations
How it works illustration: choose photos on a tablet, design the album, receive the printed album in a box.
  1. Pick your photosFrom your phone, tablet or computer.
  2. Design the albumIn a few minutes, with ready layouts.
  3. It arrives homePrinted, bound and boxed.
Touchpoints

From the first card to the box at your door.

The identity runs through every physical piece: the album itself, business cards, the delivery envelope, packaging for a family memory game, and the mobile app.

Picabook-branded photo album with a white cover and red spine.
A flurry of Picabook business cards in white and red.
Picabook app splash screen in red on a phone held in hand.
Packaging for a Picabook family memory game made from your own photos.
Delivery envelope die-line with a red flap and a road photo: every moment is born a moment.
Business cards floating on black, front and back.
Website

A store that feels like flipping an album.

The website puts real family photos first, uses the red only for products and calls to action, and keeps every path to "create an album" one click away.

picabook.co.il
Homepage scroll-through
Picabook website on a laptop: all the love in a book of your own.
Homepage hero
Wrap-up

A brand you can hold in your hands.

One gesture, opening the cover, became a symbol, a motion, an illustration language and a family of printed pieces. It works on a phone screen and on the spine of a real album, in Hebrew and in Latin.