A career is more than a title.
Retirement maps connect schools, workplaces, cities, milestones and years into one professional journey.
The map above is the visual idea behind Places We Keep: meaningful places connected into one story.
See the real photos ↓The real archive
These are photographs from the existing founder archive already stored with the storefront — a few real moments behind the places and years shown above.
Select any photograph to open the original image.
Why maps
For years I thought about a journey mainly in terms of where it was taking me next: the next project, the next responsibility, the next city. Only later did I understand how much meaning was already sitting behind me.
A résumé records titles. A calendar records dates. A photograph captures one moment. A map can connect those moments and show the larger journey.
That connecting line became the idea behind Places We Keep: turn geography into a visual story that someone can actually keep.
Three kinds of journey
Every product begins with real places and real details, then turns them into a visual story rather than a generic decorative map.
Retirement maps connect schools, workplaces, cities, milestones and years into one professional journey.
Love Story maps connect the places where a shared life happened: first meetings, homes, proposals, weddings, moves and anniversaries.
Trail maps keep the route, terrain and achievement together so the line on the map still carries the experience of riding it.
Places We Keep
The map is a way to hold onto the structure of a memory: where it happened, what came before it, what came after it, and which details made it personal.
We do not keep places because they are famous. We keep them because part of our life happened there.