Commemorative book design

AstraZeneca commissioned us to create a commemorative book design to celebrate the 30 years of service and retirement of one of their Engineering department employees.

Background

AstraZeneca prides itself in nurturing and looking after their employees at all stages of their career, with the company being a firm believer in encouraging high levels of employee engagement to guarantee maximum employee satisfaction, which in turn will ultimately have a positive impact and really benefit the lives of patients all over the world.

Challenge

For this project, our brief was to produce a commemorative book design that would help the company celebrate the achievements of a long-standing employee (Eric) who would soon be retiring after 30 years at AstraZeneca.

Solution

Having been involved in many engineering projects across AstraZeneca’s UK sites for many years, Eric’s legacy was more than extraordinary. To pay tribute to his long and distinguished career, we teamed up with his colleagues to secretly compile a book featuring a photograph of every building project he’d been involved in over his illustrious career.

We spent two days working around the sites with a specialist architectural photographer before designing the stunning photography into a beautiful case-bound, landscape commemorative book. The book was presented to Eric at his leaving ceremony, and he was absolutely delighted.

We produced two further copies of the hardbound commemorative book, one for the Engineering department to use as a demonstration aid to promote their services to the rest of AstraZeneca, and a third to enter the AstraZeneca archives as a permanent record.

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