How Personalized Headstones Really Start: An Explanation of the Intake Form
Every custom monument that we produce starts off in the same way: a form. Families may find it surprising that it is not some more elab...
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Family Meeting Minutes: One 3 Person Headstone or Three Individual Stones?
The following are the minutes of a family meeting of the type our design desk hears recounted weekly - reconstructed as a composite, na...
QR Code Headstone, Revisited: A Return Visit to the First Wave
There is a good tradition in technology journalism that the memorial industry should copy: the return visit. Not the launch story - but...
The Bench Headstone Teardown: An Engineer’s Perspective on the Only Monument You Can Sit On
When engineers want to give a compliment, they perform a teardown: take the thing apart, piece by piece, and let its design speak. In t...
A Field Guide to Military Headstones: Deciphering the Language of the Stones
There is a field guide for just about everything that is worth observing in a dignified fashion - birds, trees, clouds - and this field...
Headstone Flower Saddle: A Tutorial in Seven Steps
There are topics that are better written in articles, but there are some that deserve workshops and laboratories. This is a workshop ab...
Cemetery Decoration Policy, Annotated: What the Regulations Really Mean for Headstone Decorations
Every cemetery gives families the decoration policy, and every family looks at it the way everyone looks at insurance - once, with anxi...
The Single Headstone with Two Names: Five Inscriptions, Before and After
Editing granite means permanent editing, and there's no stone that requires more from the editor than the single headstone with two nam...
Cross Headstone Designs: Nine Plates From Our Workshop
In the past, monument workshops sold from pattern books - thick books with numbered plates which a family could examine at the kitchen ...
Bible Verses for Headstones: A Commonplace Book of Scripture in Stone
Before the Internet, people used commonplace books, bound notebook volumes in which the useful words were copied by hand - verses, pray...
