Last week we shipped the very first real live order for our new medium-weight lay-flat Q Books. Not a prototype, not a concept drawing or trial album, but our very first, real live order.

These lay-flats were just a part of our 2015 launch, our biggest in years, with new cover materials, new panoramic flushmounts and much more. We showed them first at WPPI and SWPP, but despite our own excitement and the enthusiastic response, we’ve resisted shipping the lay-flats until now. Why? To make them perfect they needed a little extra love, so we went back to the drawing board.

The last year or so has involved weeks of research, weeks traveling the world to find those beautiful materials, weeks developing the processes that allow us to offer these new products. Weeks of design refinement and software development so you can order smoothly and easily … and so we can make a product good enough to carry the Q. Weeks of training for the production teams so everything would be ready to go live, and of course weeks of fielding calls from customers asking when they’ll be ready!

So a big thank you to our wonderful clients for your incredible support and patience. And thank you to all the teams at Queensberry who have worked so hard to make this happen. We’re so grateful for each and everyone of you, and all that you do to make us who we are.

There’s a lot of pressure behind our Q. We believe that when we send something out into the market it needs to be the best, and we firmly believe that the new lay-flats are right up there.

Adrienne and I were there to quality check that first order. With new products we are always there personally to do the first and second checks.

It’s a little bit scary, but after a whole lot of excitement, combined at times with overwhelming pressure, like any new baby being born into our family, I couldn’t help but burst into tears of pure joy and pride. 

It really was a brilliant day!

Sonya x