Designing a unique way to celebrate 100 years of community.
Legacy Cookbook
Print Layout | Iconography | Typography | Branding
CHALLENGE
Create a meaningful anniversary experience to celebrate Gate City Bank’s 100-year milestone. The project needed to reflect the bank’s community focus and give customers and employees something meaningful to keep.
SOLUTION
I created a commemorative cookbook celebrating the bank’s tradition of sharing recipes among employees and customers. By republishing hundreds of recipes from past decades, the book honored the bank’s legacy while reinforcing its community connection. The design balanced practical usability with keepsake value, making it both a functional cookbook and a symbolic anniversary piece.
RESULTS
300-page cookbook with 450+ recipes
2,050 copies printed and distributed to customers and employees
Generated strong community engagement and positive feedback
BEFORE
Past Cookbooks (2003, 2006)
AFTER
New Commemorative Cookbook (2023)
Designing a Layout
The request was to take the hundreds of recipes previously printed by the bank and create a standardized layout to fit all of them.
I developed a modular layout to handle the wide variety of recipes. The flexible grid allowed for consistent structure while accommodating varying recipe lengths and details.
Organizing recipes by category (e.g., Beverages, Desserts, Dinner) and adding a table of contents made the book approachable and easy to navigate.
Page Layouts
Structuring Recipe Details
Each recipe includes a title, the contributor’s name, and location—keeping these details from the original recipes further tied the cookbook to the history of the bank and its community.
This was an element readers loved as they rediscovered family favorites.
A row of custom icons highlighted quick details including cooking method, difficulty, and year originally published, making the book easy to browse.
Custom Icon System
I built a tailored set of icons to quickly convey cooking methods. These visuals streamlined navigation and added a consistent design language across the cookbook.
