Commemorative book

Dunleavy Design was delighted to work with Balla Town Park community on their Dawn Oak 2002 Millennium Project. The community planted 2,000 oak trees on Millennium Eve at midnight, earning themselves a place in the Guinness Book of Records! I came onboard initially to design commemorative certificates. 

Dunleavy Design was then commissioned to design a commemorative book, which would tell the story of the project. The book was designed partially via computer and commercially printed onto Stratakolour cream parchment paper (50 pages), and a number of pages were hand-written in half-uncial calligraphy (the Dedication Page to the front, and the lists of dedications/sponsors to the rear).

The book was bound in burgundy Moroccan leather by Kenny’s Book Bindery, and featured hand-tooled leather and gold leaf. The Dawn Oak logo was embossed on the cover in gold. A number of copies of the book were also produced and bound in cloth.

	Left: colour photocopy of the top half of the Dedication Page, scanned in. The Dawn Oak acorn emblem featured, together with the logo colours (dark green and burnt orange). This text is written in half-uncial “Celtic style”. Below left: the bottom half this page; featuring the acorn enlarged, muted in colour, forming a background watermark. Bottom left: a photo of the original Dedication Page, bound into the book.
Left: the finished book, bound in burgundy leather with gold leaf. Below: on the left, the leather-bound book; on the right one of the cloth-bound copies.
Left: pages to the rear of the book were written in half-uncial calligraphy. The left-hand column was the sponsor’s name & address; the right-hand column was the name & address of  the person to whom the planted tree was dedicated.
Left: a sample of one of the typeset pages (50 pages of the book). This was designed using QuarkXPress software, and was commercially printed onto parchment-effect paper.