• Bespoke family history book with a handwritten letter
  • Custom illustration for a high-end company history book
  • Bespoke illustration that accompanies a 50-year anniversary company history book
  • Custom-made family tribute book where maps are used as backgrounds
  • A luxury family history book with a map indicating the narrator's home
  • Illustrations elevate the stories in our family history books
  • Elegant memoir and family history book with a custom illustration for a contents page
  • Heirloom-quality memoir with a classic, elegant layout that includes newspaper spreads
  • An open bespoke book showing a custom-designed page with an old photograph of a prominent family's store
  • An open custom-made book showing a map of a family's origins in Corsica
  • A family history book open to a page with a custom-designed spread of the family's business impact
  • Elegant photo album commissioned by a family wanting a custom-designed repository for their photographs

Plantain is an award-winning company that transforms personal stories and company histories into beautifully designed, bespoke books and digital heirlooms.

Beautifully designed book cover with linen and intricate typography and striking imagery

Salvatori: A Company and Family History Book

Interior spread of a family history book, showcasing beautiful editorial layout design.

Harts: A Collection of Short Family Stories

A family history book and memoir open to a page with a custom-designed spread of the narrator's main passion: yachting

Lennox Tang Yuk: That was quite a story, actually...

Close-up detail featuring bold colours and a modern layout for a company history book

50 Years of Building: The Emile Elias Group of Companies

Aesthetic grey linen cover book with striking red print, memoir of a former Fortune 500 company leader.

A Fortune 500 Leader

High-end book design with a sleek and professional layout

Frankie Dolly: Catch Me If You Can!

A glass decorative orb sits on top of two stacked hardcover books, titled 'Simply The Best' and 'Volume One' on a wooden shelf.

Hand-Crafted Wedding Books

Uganda Railways history book, featuring an impressive train image on matte hardcover against a dramatic black backdrop, a remarkable creation by our book designers.

Uganda Railways

Custom book layout with unique illustrations and a timeless design, made possible by our dedicated book designers

Luck Beat Obeah

A hardcover book with a colorful tropical landscape cover resting on a matching cloth bag with a tropical scene and a drawstring, all with coastal and palm tree imagery.

Photo Albums: Timeless Elegance

Across 28 countries, we’ve helped more than 200 generations preserve what matters most.

We craft enduring tributes — works of art that distill a lifetime’s meaning — whether we’re conducting interviews from scratch or transforming your own words and archives into an elegant, custom-made volume.

Families and individuals work with us to celebrate milestones – birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, career retrospectives – through whimsical, timeless Memoirs, Family History Books, and Portfolio Books.

Companies partner with us to mark anniversaries and honour contributors with Company History Books worthy of their legacy.

Every book we create becomes part of a larger story — one that continues to be told. See why our clients choose our book design agency on Trustpilot, Google, and Facebook.

Co-founder, Felicia Chang, explains the story and philosophy behind Plantain at TEDx.

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