It all started last spring, when Swampscott native Mark Yarmarkovich, 28, saw an art exhibit. <\/p>\n
The artist had made over 10,000 buttons the kind you pin on your shirt -- using images from magazines and other types of old and new media, Yarmarkovich said in a recent interview. The walls of the gallery were covered in buttons. Each of the buttons seemed to capture a small part of a larger image, similar to how our mind tends to remember smaller fragments of a whole experience. <\/p>\n
That display instantly sparked an idea, and ultimately led to the creation of a mobile app. <\/p>\n
I thought the buttons looked really beautiful and that it would be a cool way to let people capture their own memories, he said. <\/p>\n
And thus, Memento Studio was born. <\/p>\n
Available for free through the App Store, Memento Studio is an app that allows users to take photos, edit them and then customize items using that photo. Users can upload a photo onto different items such as magnets, pins, bottle openers, key chains and more. <\/p>\n
The app allows people to capture memories and create personalized gifts, encapsulated in a high quality form that looks really nice wherever you want to put it, Yarmarkovich said. <\/p>\n
But it wasnt easy turning his idea into something real. <\/p>\n
The process was long and involved more hurdles than I originally anticipated, he said. But I was lucky to work with a talented developer who made the functionality of this app really great. There were a lot of other factors that went into establishing a company, refining the manufacturing process, and deciding on the features of the app. It became kind of a tradeoff between wanting to launch the app and wanting to continue improving it before putting it out there. <\/p>\n
Once the app was ready, Yarmarkovich submitted it to Apple. After it was reviewed and accepted by Apple, Yarmarkovich could now start helping people create something with their photos. <\/p>\n
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